Ant Infestation

The nearest thing to an 'epidemic' here is of ladybirds (there seems to be a range of colours & spots).

Watch out for the Harlequins reputed to be nasty in some way.

Those are said to be quite large. We don't have any that big.

Just a final follow up to my ant infestation. As in the post above once I deployed the Nippon traps I got from Amazon there was a frenzy of ants trying to get to the bait. By the following morning I only saw one confused ant milling around looking like it was on its last legs and a few dead ants around the traps. Having cleared away the dead ants, I never saw anymore since so I have to conclude Antageddon has taken place and the nest wherever it was is finished. Nippon recommend the traps are left in place for 10 days to be certain so I will leave them until the weekend before calling it. Based on my only experience of Nippon I can heartily recommend their traps my problem had gone away in less than 48 hours.

Richard

I have not tried Nippon traps, but I have successfully used Nippon gel. I put it less than an inch away from their walking route, so that straggling outriders would find it and tell their mates, and soon they were queuing to get to it. The gel seems to lose its attraction after

Harlequins are imports. They kill the native ones. The native ones are useful. Their grubs kill loads of greenfly.

There are some typically sized ones too. I have seen a couple. They are a different colour[1] to the native ones.