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Ants II.b.1.
This isn't exactly on topic WRT little black ants, but I was thinking about it yesterday as I watched the hummingbirds. I've never noticed them doing it here in North Carolina--we don't have as many hummers here as we did in Louisiana, and I"ve got less time for looking at them. But if you've got those tiny ants in your yard, and a hummingbird feeder, you've probably had the ants find the feeder. I was recalling yesterday how I'd watch the hummingbirds hovering above the feeder, picking the ants off the wire holding the feeder. :-) "This is great--if you get them coming back UP the wire, they're stuffed full of sugar water!" :-) _______________________________________________ http://www.duke.edu/~kuzen001/spinaltap.htm Ken Kuzenski AC4RD ken . kuzenski at duke .edu _______________________________________________ All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001 |
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Ants II.b.1.
Yep, their little tongues dart out and grab the ants--dessert! But the
ants would crawl inside the little plastic "flower" catheter that the hummers drink from, die there, and be impossible to extract completely during cleaning. So I took to applying vaseline to the wire that the feeder hangs from, and that got rid of the ants. Come to think of it, that might be about the time they started invading the house. ;^) Cheers Sue On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:38:58 +0000 (UTC), wrote: This isn't exactly on topic WRT little black ants, but I was thinking about it yesterday as I watched the hummingbirds. I've never noticed them doing it here in North Carolina--we don't have as many hummers here as we did in Louisiana, and I"ve got less time for looking at them. But if you've got those tiny ants in your yard, and a hummingbird feeder, you've probably had the ants find the feeder. I was recalling yesterday how I'd watch the hummingbirds hovering above the feeder, picking the ants off the wire holding the feeder. :-) "This is great--if you get them coming back UP the wire, they're stuffed full of sugar water!" :-) _______________________________________________ http://www.duke.edu/~kuzen001/spinaltap.htm Ken Kuzenski AC4RD ken . kuzenski at duke .edu _______________________________________________ All disclaimers apply, see? www.duke.edu/~kuzen001 |
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