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<blockquote data-quote="WolfSpider" data-source="post: 118284" data-attributes="member: 24627"><p>Damn.......only in South and Central Florida!!! Got a question for all of the experts on the forum:</p><p></p><p>My enclosures, all of them, and my spider room, are infested with Ghost ants. Ghost ants are tiny--hard to see. They are tropical (Ennie, Shampain, LC72UK, you are off the hook). Anyway, they sneak in through tiny holes in the house. They eat protein foods--especially bonus material, tarantula poop, etc. By themselves, they are harmless, but they reproduce from the Queen or Queens by--get this--budding!!! In my T. Ockerti enclosure, I gave up after I counted 40 of them. </p><p></p><p>So.....they can be controlled with bait. It is recommended by the exterminator that poisonous bait laced with proteins/grease and with sugar be placed at strategic points in the tarantula room. Apparently this is successful...eventually. The exterminators recommend Advion ant bait gel (to be laid on the floor) and Adviot bait containers.</p><p></p><p>Here is my question: Will the bait (not a spray, and probably not likely to propagate in the enclosure) put my T's at risk of DKS??</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your opinion in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfSpider, post: 118284, member: 24627"] Damn.......only in South and Central Florida!!! Got a question for all of the experts on the forum: My enclosures, all of them, and my spider room, are infested with Ghost ants. Ghost ants are tiny--hard to see. They are tropical (Ennie, Shampain, LC72UK, you are off the hook). Anyway, they sneak in through tiny holes in the house. They eat protein foods--especially bonus material, tarantula poop, etc. By themselves, they are harmless, but they reproduce from the Queen or Queens by--get this--budding!!! In my T. Ockerti enclosure, I gave up after I counted 40 of them. So.....they can be controlled with bait. It is recommended by the exterminator that poisonous bait laced with proteins/grease and with sugar be placed at strategic points in the tarantula room. Apparently this is successful...eventually. The exterminators recommend Advion ant bait gel (to be laid on the floor) and Adviot bait containers. Here is my question: Will the bait (not a spray, and probably not likely to propagate in the enclosure) put my T's at risk of DKS?? Thanks for your opinion in advance. [/QUOTE]
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