Hi guys (Anti-Escaping System question)

[entoK]

Hi, I think that nearly nobody here uses teflon because it's much more simply to find and easy to use the oil/grease mixture. Pay attention, you don't have to use the liquid vaseline but the grease one, because its function is to keep in place the repellent and slippery oil. So you just have to mix half parafine oil and half vaseline grease in order to get more or less a jelly mixture. Then you can use a brush to apply this mixture in a one or two centimeter wide layer, near the box edge.

Another very important thing to reduce the escaping risk (C. vagus is a real escapologist! ), is to create an horizontal edge over the top, where you can put the mixture underside. You can cut the box covering cap or something similar, just to make a border on which an ant needs to walk upside down: in this way the slippery and horizontal but reversed surface becomes near impossible to cross...
...sometimes C. vagus workers finds some smart cooperative way to cross even in that case, but it's a matter of very huge numbers (old colony problem) or unexpected issues as a not too large border!


So don't you worry, your little colony is still easy bearable.

[DigiNS]

Thank you a lot! Can you tell me in what way do i mix these two? Do i mix them in a ratio? Or do i just get a plastic cup, put vaseline and pour paraffine oil then mix it with a brush and apply it?

[DigiNS]

Oh sorry im totally a silly person, i read your response, and replied with my text 3 hours after forgetting half of what you typed and now i realized what i've done asking you the same question twice... Thank you a lot for your information :D