Does this keep ants out? I bet that is a silly question, but why not ask?
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It seals tightly, so I can't imagine that ants would likely find their way into it, but I know that those little tiny ants can be wily. But, it seems to seal really well. Also, the little terra cotta disc keeps the sugar from clumping up. It really works, too. I live in a high humidity area, so it's been tested. : )
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I haven't seen any bugs/ants. I have the brown sugar container in addition to the flour and sugar container. No problems.
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Can't speak to ants but in the midst of a bad cereal bug infestation they have not been able to get into the similar flour container I bought from this company. And those little buggers LOVE flour.
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Yes they should since they seal when you close them, and the seal is pretty strong.
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I bring my bowls inside to clean them regularly and have never found an ant inside any of them. If you don't want to bring them inside, you can always take a bucket of hot, soapy water outside and clean them there.
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It will hold a liquid bait and prevent rain from getting in. The inside of the station is an open cup with steep walls. However, I'm not sure how easily ants can leave the station after consuming the bait. I found many ants drowned in the liquid bait I used.
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I don't understand the question. The feeder itself retards bees, and the little water moat keeps ants at bay pretty well, although some reviewers mentioned needing an additional ant guard.
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Yes, this net will definitely get the ants out, without a doubt. I absolutely love the net. It's so strong.
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My trick for keeping ants out is I put Vaseline on the pole or hanging device. It is cheap and easy to apply.
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Unsure I have been using this to help deter my black ant infestation in my garden.
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It should keep water out of the canister but I don't know about ants. Water will collect in the bowl of course, and raccoons might try to get food out of the food chute. So...somewhat weatherproof, depending on where you keep it outside.
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I have a wire hanging from a screw eye in the bottom of my tree limb ....the wire makes a loop at the bottom where I put my ant trap...then hang your feeder from the bottom of the ant trap. The ant trap not only keeps ants out.....but a lot of my birds also hang from the wire and drink from it!
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I've been using this feeder outside on a sheltered porch for nearly a year. I haven't had any trouble with ants getting inside, but I imagine it is possible. The reservoir is pretty well sealed, and my outdoor (semi-feral now) cat usually consumes the food before nightfall (it drops between 10 and 11 am), so there doesn't appear to be much residue to attract ants.
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The granules would seep into the ground and so would their toxins. I use the plastic bait system in and around my garden to keep ants down. I find that it works quite well. Ants are not a problem in my garden now.
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I originally was filling the moat but as time went on I stopped doing that. So far, I haven't had any ant problems at all. Not sure if this is typical though. Fyi, I have 2 of these feeders that are placed in different parts of the yard.
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Did you clip the end of the plastic container where the instructions indicate it should be cut? Did you place it close to a known ant trail? If you did those things, then ants should be visiting the container and taking poison home to the queen and her pupa...which will severely reduce ant numbers near your home. It works very well so long as the liquid is not spilled out, and so long as the container is in a sheltered area where rain cannot get to it. I hope this helps. :-)
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I don't even use the squares especially when ants are crawling on walls. So I just put some on the top of the door casing and they go at it. I do wonder if it works because the ants have been coming back with a vengeance lately (summer time in Southern California) but don't have any oh her effective way to kill them besides spraying with stuff like Raid so I'll probably keep using it.
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Ants can crawl through very, very small crevices and there is no way this box would keep an ant out if it wanted in. You would have to have some kind of seal on these to ensure ants didn't get in. Having said that - I've never known an ant to go after salt. That's a new one. My experience has been that salt is pretty safe when it comes to pests and this is tight enough to keep anything bigger than an ant out anyway.
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I purchased this and I actually live in Florida, and have had no ant issues! But it's definitely not air tight, so those little ants could definitely crawl their way in
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When I use the bait trap, the ants formed a line from their nest and enter the trap. Soon, there was a line of ants going back to the nest and a line coming to the trap. There was an excess of ants that could be described as "hanging out". In 30 days, after using two traps, there was not an ant to be seen. If you spill any of the liquid in the trap, it defeats the purpose as they will feed on the spilled solution and it seems to lose its potency after it is spilled.