• flipht@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My understanding is not that they pick it up and carry it back, but rather they don’t make it far past the line of it before it shreds them to death, and thus they can’t leave their scent trail to anything inside your house.

    We’ve successfully used it to stop a sugar ant invasion.

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      1 year ago

      It does not shred, it acts as a dessicant, much like the silica packets that come with shoes, it dehydrates them relatively rapidly. And in some cases insects do bring it back as it sticks to their bodies, spreading it around their peers.