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I am not seeing and ant deterred by duct tape or a rubber band. ?
Regarding "organic warfare", some entomologists from Aarhus University in Denmark (where I studied) started a project raising weaver ant colonies to help African farmers keeping other insects away from their fruit trees - written in Danish but translated by Google; http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjp.dk%2Faarhus%2Fuddannelse%2Farticle2277488.ece Not sure if you can order a colony by mail
Quote from: Future on March 06, 2012, 12:16:47 PMI am not seeing and ant deterred by duct tape or a rubber band. ?Ducktape is placed inside out, i.e. the sticky side out. The rubberband is something mentioned on the yahoo group, I have not tried this myself.