Uninvited Ants Here

[Faroe]

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Latest Ant Moat for 2017

Many of you may know that we lost a hive to Argentine ants last year. We tried many things to control them, including borax-laced syrup (failed) and then my first home made ant moats. The problem we had with the first ant moats is that the ants were willing to drown enough of themselves to bridge the moat, then they built a nest in our SBB which prospered while we were on vacation. Having learned from that, we have a new design with a much wider moat. The moats are made with PVC drain caps. A P…

Ant Moat version #2, because #1 was TERRIBLE

You probably don’t remember, but I made ant moats for my hive stand legs. See below… [image] Conceptually, my ant moat was the bees knees. In reality, after every rain, the moat filled with water. YEAH, Water in the Moat! I should be happy, right? WRONG! 3 days later all of the water evaporated or was absorbed by the 4x4 sitting in the moat. My original plan was to avoid this problem by filling the moat with oil. Well, that would work, if (a) oil was more dense than water, (b) the 4x4’s didn’…

Do ants hurt bees?

hello . iam a new at the beekeeping and i have a ants go around , on , and in my flow hive . my question is do the ants hurt and kill the bees ? by the way i tried the cinnamon method and it didn’t work but the ants are very very small ants

Getting rid of ants

Advice for getting rid of ants. Au.