High-Capacity Ant Bait Station - "Murder Trough"
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Description
The weather has been just right recently that ants have decided to come in to our house. Lots of ants. I printed a few circular traps and they work great, but after a few days the liquid bait I'm putting in them dries up and I want to refresh it by adding a few drops of water. So this is my take on an ant trap, focused on making things with printer-friendly dimensions for material efficiency and using geometry that does not leave weird overhangs (no circular entrances).
The idea was a much higher capacity for bait, basically a rectangular ring that you fill. Depending on the viscosity of your bait and the material you used you might need to push it around with a toothpick to get it to evenly distribute (this was true for me using Terro and printing in PETG).
This was my first test model, I changed it a little after.
The top is just ever-so loose. This is by design - pinch it while you're picking the trap up and it will hold, do not pinch and you can easily remove the top to add bait/water without disturbing the trap itself.
Put it right up along the wall where you see the ants marching two-by-two(thousand) and they'll greedily start harvesting the bait. I've extended the life of mine by adding a few drops of water to the bait every other day, as the liquid dries up.
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