12-14-2023, 09:15 AM
The corn grits for ant bait are soaked in oil that's mixed with a poison, it's the oil that they're attracted to.
The infestation on Maui wasn't "one property" as such but the thing that made it possible to do this kind of control was that there are no houses here. There is one in the upper part of the area (where they were first introduced at), which they had to avoid with the helicopter and treat from the ground.
It couldn't really be done over the whole Big Island, but possibly if it had been taken this seriously 25 years ago then we wouldn't be in the situation we are today. Still, the Nahiku site is something like 250 acres of almost impenetrable jungle, so a pretty incredible accomplishment to get rid of them from there!
The infestation on Maui wasn't "one property" as such but the thing that made it possible to do this kind of control was that there are no houses here. There is one in the upper part of the area (where they were first introduced at), which they had to avoid with the helicopter and treat from the ground.
It couldn't really be done over the whole Big Island, but possibly if it had been taken this seriously 25 years ago then we wouldn't be in the situation we are today. Still, the Nahiku site is something like 250 acres of almost impenetrable jungle, so a pretty incredible accomplishment to get rid of them from there!