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How to Catch Ants: A Tutorial
As with FlyPower, the key to
your enjoyment of the Ant Bracelet will be determined by your ability to catch
ants. Otherwise, you'll just be walking around with an empty plastic tube
around your wrist.
Ants are fascinating creatures and highly social.
As such when you find one, you can bet the farm that there will be others
nearby. The first place to look is near you home or apartment, under rocks,
fallen logs, cracks in the driveway and the like. If you live in a college
fraternity house, or almost any building near a university, you should be able
to open any kitchen cabinet and find as many ants as you like. But I digress.
Finding the ants is usually the least of your problems. Catching them
is an entirely different matter Using the plastic bag your Ant Bracelet came
in, try putting some sugar or small piece of cracker into the bag and setting
it down near the location of the ants you've located. Give it an hour or so and
you should come back to find several ants dining out at your establishment..
To help the ants out, you can always place a leaf ramp going into the
bag, and prop open the end to give them a little more access. But whatever you
do, don't try to scoop them up with a stick or twig. That pisses them off to no
end, and instead munching on the cracker, they may find you more appealing.
This brings us to another point.
Ants bite, and some of them are down
right nasty about it as well. We'd recommend that you try not to handle the
ants if at all possible. They are more than capable of finding your food, and
even walking right into your ant Bracelet without your help.
Once you
find that your "trap" as a half dozen or so ants in it, pick it up and close
off the opening. Now take your Ant Bracelet and slip one end into the bag. Make
sure the colored stopper is securely fitted to the other end. Tilt the bag
toward the tube. Several of the ants should begin to migrate toward the
Bracelet opening and enter. Once you have four or five inside, remove the tube
and place on your wrist.
Another technique we have used successfully
is to place a small amount of sugar directly into the tube itself, and with the
colored stopper in place, present the open end to the ant. About 30% of the
time, the ants will walk right in and make himself at home. Not unlike some
people we know.
FlyPower is working on the development of an Ant
Bracelet AntFarm which will have the ability of almost
automatically loading the ants into the Bracelet. We'll let you know when this
project is completed.
As per the instructions enclosed with your
Bracelet, we don't suggest that you keep the Ants inside the Bracelet for any
more than 24 hours. It is also a good idea to swab out the tube with a pipe
cleaner. Wouldn't want to leave any Ant crap in there would we.
We
also suggest you release the ants back where you found them. Ants have a habit
of not moving their nest too often, so if you bring them back they may tell
their friends what a great time they had, and you'll end up with an eager and
happy workforce.
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