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: Received: 26 August 2024 / Approved: 27 August 2024 / Online: 27 August 2024 (11:28:21 CEST)
How to cite:
Holloway, J. B.; Suiter, D. R.; Davis, J. W.; Gardner, A. W. A. Common Home Remedies do not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), From a Preferred Harborage. Preprints2024, 2024081895. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1895.v1
Holloway, J. B.; Suiter, D. R.; Davis, J. W.; Gardner, A. W. A. Common Home Remedies do not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), From a Preferred Harborage. Preprints 2024, 2024081895. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1895.v1
Holloway, J. B.; Suiter, D. R.; Davis, J. W.; Gardner, A. W. A. Common Home Remedies do not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), From a Preferred Harborage. Preprints2024, 2024081895. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1895.v1
APA Style
Holloway, J. B., Suiter, D. R., Davis, J. W., & Gardner, A. W. A. (2024). Common Home Remedies do not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), From a Preferred Harborage. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1895.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Holloway, J. B., Jerry W. Davis and and Wayne A. Gardner. 2024 "Common Home Remedies do not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), From a Preferred Harborage" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1895.v1
Abstract
In two laboratory trials natural products, including freshly-picked leaves from spearmint, rosemary, and tansy plants; a water extract from soybean plants; peels from a common cucumber; and 1% peppermint oil in hexane were placed in a moist harborage preferred by Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, and the number of ants entering the harborage after two and four hours was counted. None of the recommended home remedies (tansy, cucumber, or soybean extract) deterred ants from an attractive, moist harborage in either trial even when the quantity of these treatments was increased 4- to 10-fold. Freshly picked leaves from rosemary and spearmint plants deterred ants from harboring, and the 1% peppermint oil was the most deterrent of all treatments.
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