09-24-2015, 02:32 PM
"Do you have more than your personal experience on which to base this blanket assertion ?"
"Terracore, Do the Siesta bait granules attract or harm dogs or cats"
Tango was never used by the Hawaii Ant Lab to eradicate LFA infestations on neighbor islands. That seems to be a pretty good indicator of it's lack of efficacy. Look at their web site http://www.littlefireants.com/ The hold up in recommending products that actually work in trees seemed to be courting a manufacturer (for years) to issue a temporary label for use of a product for LFA (and it was only issued for Hawaii and only through 2019 and currently only Provaunt). They recommended Tango on the Big Island because it was the only product authorized for spraying into trees. There are a variety of products that have always worked on the ground better than any of the tree formulas and HAL ranked Siesta as the best. These are just my opinions based not only on personal experience but also the information on the state HAL web site. The research and data is out there an easily searchable.
Siesta is 99.937% inert ingredients (corn grits) and the insecticide is a new class of sodium channel blocker that is extremely targeted to ants. It actually works by putting the ants into a sleep they never wake from (hence the name Siesta) rather than killing them directly. It's toxicity to non-target species is not known. And by not known I don't mean that its a mystery, more like they have fed rats a room full of this stuff and the rats were fine. But again, do your own research. Our dogs have shown no interest in eating it but our chickens see the corn grits and would think its feeding time. When we put Siesta on the ground we cover it with a chunk of old roofing material and put a rock on it. Since LFA tend to stick close to their nest I would recommend putting about a tablespoon underneath something about every 20 feet around your house to get complete eradication. If you have LFA indoors you can sprinkle a tiny amount of siesta (like 1/2 a teaspoon) wherever you see the ants and they will be gone the next day and won't return for a very long time. LFA suck the poison oils out of Siesta and take it back to the colony where they share it with the queen and others and then you don't see them again until the colony gets reestablished. Since LFA live in interconnected colonies they are impossible to eradicate unless you can treat every colony each is connected with.
"Terracore, Do the Siesta bait granules attract or harm dogs or cats"
Tango was never used by the Hawaii Ant Lab to eradicate LFA infestations on neighbor islands. That seems to be a pretty good indicator of it's lack of efficacy. Look at their web site http://www.littlefireants.com/ The hold up in recommending products that actually work in trees seemed to be courting a manufacturer (for years) to issue a temporary label for use of a product for LFA (and it was only issued for Hawaii and only through 2019 and currently only Provaunt). They recommended Tango on the Big Island because it was the only product authorized for spraying into trees. There are a variety of products that have always worked on the ground better than any of the tree formulas and HAL ranked Siesta as the best. These are just my opinions based not only on personal experience but also the information on the state HAL web site. The research and data is out there an easily searchable.
Siesta is 99.937% inert ingredients (corn grits) and the insecticide is a new class of sodium channel blocker that is extremely targeted to ants. It actually works by putting the ants into a sleep they never wake from (hence the name Siesta) rather than killing them directly. It's toxicity to non-target species is not known. And by not known I don't mean that its a mystery, more like they have fed rats a room full of this stuff and the rats were fine. But again, do your own research. Our dogs have shown no interest in eating it but our chickens see the corn grits and would think its feeding time. When we put Siesta on the ground we cover it with a chunk of old roofing material and put a rock on it. Since LFA tend to stick close to their nest I would recommend putting about a tablespoon underneath something about every 20 feet around your house to get complete eradication. If you have LFA indoors you can sprinkle a tiny amount of siesta (like 1/2 a teaspoon) wherever you see the ants and they will be gone the next day and won't return for a very long time. LFA suck the poison oils out of Siesta and take it back to the colony where they share it with the queen and others and then you don't see them again until the colony gets reestablished. Since LFA live in interconnected colonies they are impossible to eradicate unless you can treat every colony each is connected with.