Hey, you just contacted an ant-capturing fiend. Put a Deli-cup on its side, with a slice of orange sprinkled with a lace of sugar inside of it, put it right next to the ant trail or nest entrance. You might dribble just a bit of orange juice outside the cup to give the first explorer a hint where to go. They communicate quickly. Pick it up and cap it off when you have a load of ants. You can store them in the refrigerator for a day or even more, which will immobilize them. When you feed them, they will gradually warm up and move again. You may have to change the bait. If your particular ants don't go for sweetness, try a piece of raw meat. They may not have heard about the Atkins Diet scandal yet.



There is a third method with some potential for the brave masochists into pain. I do not recommend it for the more senstive skinned folk. My daughter and I have never been able to pass up an ant pile without kicking it. There is just something about a huge pile of leaf litter full of stinging mound ants that simply has a sign on it: "Kick Me." It might be one way to collect them, using your body as bait and your underware as a trap. We have learned to kick and run like hell, not waiting to collect. But you don't want those kind of ants for frog food anyway.
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Patty

Pahsimeroi, Idaho



4 D. auratus blue

5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back

5 D. imitator

6 D. leucomelas

4 D. pumilio Bastimentos

4 D. fantasticus

4 P. terribilis

4 D. reticulatus

4 D. castaneoticus

2 D. azureus

4 P vittatus

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