I have two separate areas I collect from.One has about thirty ant hills, and a lot of underground tunnels 6 or 7 feet from the mound.We don't have to deal with the stinging ants most of you guys do.When I add ants to the HL's enclosure, i actually put my hand in the container, and they attack and bite some, and I brush them off my hand in with the HL's.There smaller and the Hl's don't consider them as much of a threat.I usually add them to an area where there away from so as the ants move throughout the enclosure, they get picted off.I usually leave dirt in with ants, as they make there own ant hill in the container.I add pieces of apples,maybe some orange or a few roaches to the ants for food, and I wet down the container immediately when I get them home.Seems moisture is the number one thing that keeps them going.I can go through several thousand in a week, with only 6 or 8 dead ones in the containers.I really need to try the new canister vac, but the old one just keeps going and going.Must be that orecks vacuums just keep going and going.It does squeal some.The only problem I have with the pitfall method is that sometimes when I start to vacuum, they will rush underground.So it's easier to ambush them, tap on the mound some in different areas, and every now and then, you hit a spot and they swarm from it and bam , there in the vac and in my container.

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