Why Homemade Ant Bait?
Whilst commercially available ant baits generally contain a slow acting poison (often around 5%) combined with an inert sugary based product (around 95%) – the proportions of poison in these mixtures are set at a fixed percentage. The advantage of making your own homemade bait is that you can constantly adjust the proportions of the various ingredients in the mixture yourself, once you observe how the ants are reacting. Bear in mind that the ants which you are able to see only represent a fraction of the total number of ants in the colony. To eliminate the entire colony it is necessary to find some way of ‘using’ these visible (usually worker) ants to somehow unwittingly cause the destruction of their fellow ants and, ultimately, their queen. This is where the ant bait station comes in to play. The idea behind an ant bait station (also sometimes called an ‘ant control center’) is to provide a place which the worker ants will identify as a source of food. We want these ants to consider
