Posted by NCWayne on July 17, 2012 at 18:25:15 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Juiced-up ants posted by JerryS on July 17, 2012 at 12:38:41:
OK, so the wiring isn't hermetically sealed and pretty but that doesn't answer the man's question. Personally the pressure switch on my well has all of the wires properly pulled into it and secured with clamps, and it's sitting under a fully enclosed structure. Even so it has been over run with ants twice in the past two years. Both times my wife told me we had no water pressure is the only way I knew something was wrong. The first time I wrote it off as a fluke of nature, the second I sprayed the area inside, and around the well house liberally with insect spray that had a 'unhealthy' dose of permetherin in it. So far I've had no more problems with the ants.
On two other occasions ants got into the contacts on the HVAC system at our rental house. First time I didn't have poision with me and the second time, two weeks later, happened before I had time to get the area sprayed. Once sprayed with the same mix I used at the well house, and sprinkled with slow release granuals, there have been no more problems. I talked to a HVAC guy about the probem and he said he had changed out nearly a dozen set of contacts in a two month time period due to the same problem. With the contacts on those units in a housing that can't be 'hermetically sealed' he said what his company does is put a fly strip inside the electrical enclosure and that usually handles the problem for at least one season.
Beyond that I've always heard the same things another post stated about the ants being attracted to the electrical fields given off by the contactors. Too, once one ant dies it gives off pheremones that call in other ants and the cycle keeps repeating until there is a problem like both you, me, and thousands of others have experienced with no water pressure or A/C.
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