Ants eat silicone. WHY??

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:18 pm

Crazy little buggers, following each other like sheep up from behind the oven, over the bench top, onto an index card I have siliconed a button cell battery to for my father to keep as a reference for battery replacement for his gadgets. I used the sensor safe permatex brand reddish silicone. These little buggers have been standing all around the battery like at a feed trough eating the silicone!! The evidence they leave behind is little fine red bits of the silicone spread around. So much for using the stuff to keep them out of electronic gear!

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:46 pm

i have the same prolom at my house eating it from around the sink and thay like to get into relays to .

openflame06 · Post by **openflame06** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:41 pm

Must be something sweet in the silicone, or the smell. Get some ant-rid thatll clear them up for a while.

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:23 pm

nah... get a plate fill it up with water or flour, and a cup in the centre - place the item in the middle - the ants hates water or flour.
Cheers
AP

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:04 pm

Probabily the same reason why termites eat electrical conduting and rubber tyres on vehicles that have been sitting on dirt for a long time in the territory... Maybe you should ask them too?!

Cheers

Bennie

PeeJay · Post by **PeeJay** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:41 pm

Find where they enter and plaster the area with fly spray - seems to keep them out for a few weeks till they find a new way in!

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:14 pm

Naphthalene flakes