Solutions That Work » Bugs http://the-best-result.com Tips and strategies for life's challenges Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:04:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Some Facts About Ants http://the-best-result.com/some-facts-about-ants/ http://the-best-result.com/some-facts-about-ants/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:59 +0000 The Advisor http://the-best-result.com/?p=176 Did you know that it takes about 500 thousand sugar ants to equal one pound? Did you also know that there are so many ants on this planet that the weight of all of them combined would weigh more than every person combined? That’s a lot of these little guys!

Sugar Ants

]]> http://the-best-result.com/some-facts-about-ants/feed/ 0 Ants in the cat food http://the-best-result.com/ants-in-the-cat-food/ http://the-best-result.com/ants-in-the-cat-food/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:14:57 +0000 The Advisor http://the-best-result.com/?p=79 Challenge: I have ants attacking my cat’s food dish. What should i do?

The Best Result: In addition to the Corn Meal trick (which will kill off the ants that come for kitty food, there are a couple of really quick methods of repelling the ants from getting to your cat’s food dish.

One of them is to simply draw a circle around the bowl with a piece of chalk. The ants won’t cross the line. They have to go elsewhere to find a snack, unless they can figure out how to build a bridge.

The other method, which is the one that we use quite a bit here at Admiration Ranch, is to put a moat around the food. You simply put a small food dish inside a larger bowl with water in it. The ants can’t get past the moat, again that is unless they can build a bridge.

Cat Food Moat

Cat Food Moat

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