I have a home site with multiple circuit breaker boxes. The main one is on the outside of the cabin, but it has a large circuit that runs from the box to a remote breaker box, which feeds a third breaker box. Therefore all are exposed to ants. At this place there is a severe infestation of crazy/tawny/Rasberry ants.
I hired a professional to try to control them but his methods lasted for less than a month each time and he visited 6 times in a year. Because they have no identifiable nest, they are a plague and solutions are only temporary. They started 2 years ago and I have found that they are attracted to anything/everything electrical. I have opened my circuit breaker boxes to find dead bodies 4" deep in the bottom. They have also filled every circuit breaker switch with dead bodies. Every component and wire and crevice in the box has dead bodies. If a switch is turned off, it has less than a 50% chance of ever making contact and working again because dead bodies prevent metal-metal contact.
Chemicals do not last. There is no way to seal a standard box. I can only think that if the whole box is airtight that I might have a chance. Are there airtight boxes? Or are there other ideas?
I hired a professional to try to control them but his methods lasted for less than a month each time and he visited 6 times in a year. Because they have no identifiable nest, they are a plague and solutions are only temporary. They started 2 years ago and I have found that they are attracted to anything/everything electrical. I have opened my circuit breaker boxes to find dead bodies 4" deep in the bottom. They have also filled every circuit breaker switch with dead bodies. Every component and wire and crevice in the box has dead bodies. If a switch is turned off, it has less than a 50% chance of ever making contact and working again because dead bodies prevent metal-metal contact.
Chemicals do not last. There is no way to seal a standard box. I can only think that if the whole box is airtight that I might have a chance. Are there airtight boxes? Or are there other ideas?