KM
AntPro
Placement Strategy & Installation Guide
One of the first considerations when utilizing the
AntPro System
, is where to locate the
dispensers and how many are required to do the job. Whether you are eliminating insects
that are invading a home or office complex, a lawn or garden area, or infesting agricultural
acreage, there are
reliable guidelines to follow for successful and economical control and
monitoring.
It’s important to remember that only a selected group of ant workers from most ant colonies
are charged with the responsibility of providing food for its members. They perform this
task by initially foraging at random Only after these ants have found an attractive food
source do they mark and create positive pheromone trails, chemically marked highways,
from the food source home to their colony. This means the initial randomly foraging ant
24/7 control and monitoring around homes and other structures
1) Install at least one
AntPro
®
dispenser on each side of the structure, giving considera-
tion to its size, and the number of different connecting walls. For a small home or building
consisting of approximately 1500 sq. ft., place one unit at each side. The following are addi-
tional
AntPro
dispenser placement considerations:
a) Key areas such as acute joining wall angles where insects converge.
b) Place a unit when possible by the air conditioner condenser water
overflow outlet. Water is always primary insect attractant
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Activation Instructions:
1) Activate dispenser by unscrewing
reservoir one half turn (180 degrees
counter clockwise). (Activation
opens the dispenser, so ants can feed
on bait.) Unscrewing reservoir too
far can result in bait leakage.
2) Tighten the safety lock screw to
lock the reservoir in place and
prevent child tampering.
Other Instructions:
1)
After colony elimination or control, leave dispensers in place to prevent re-
infestation. The dispensers are designed to hold and deliver bait for extended periods,
but should be emptied, flushed-out, and refilled with fresh bait every few months.
Additional bait refills are sold separately.
2)
Avoid tilting or jarring dispensers once they are activated, — this disturbs the
metering action and can cause the bait to leak.
3)
Important:
Do not apply insecticides or other baits while using your
AntPro sys-
tem
, although these products kill visible insects quickly, they serve to alert other
colony members to bud “divide” the nest and reproduce more rapidly. The foragers
are killed before they have an opportunity to return to their nest and feed their
queens, nursery and other colony members.
Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait
Contains Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate 1% as its active ingredient. It is specially
formulated to retard the development of mold and can be diluted with distilled water or a food
grade liquid 1 to 1 making a .5% active ingredient bait to optimize its cost effectiveness and
palatability to an exceptionally wide variety of ant species. "*Tramp Ants” ,which are the ants
we are most concerned with controlling tend to make very large colonies and have a high de-
mand for food sources high in sugar. Most of the time this demand for sugar is met by taking
the excretions of plant-sucking bugs like aphids, scales and mealybugs in exchange for protec-
tion from predatory insects. This liquid is referred to as "Honeydew”.-
Gourmet Ant Bait
®
is
scientifically formulated to mimic this natural ant food, additionally it contains a patented at-
tractant “UNI-TRACT®”. “UNI-TRACT” increase the feeding of Carpenter Ants, Ghost Ants,
Argentine Ants, Crazy Ants, Imported Fire Ants, Pharaoh Ants, White-footed Ants, Big
Headed ants, roaches and numerous other insects.
AntPro®
and
Gourmet, are certified USDA, National Organic
Program (NOP) food crop compliant.
*Tramp ant is a title applied to several invasive ant families
with proven ability to hitchhike with human travel and
establish colonies in new regions all around the globe.
Argentine, ghost, fire, White Footed, Long legged and crazy
ants are just a few of this group’s members.
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