What would be a good solvent to use for cleaning the surfaces of an ant foraging arena?

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Rustam Rakhmatullin

Hi Sylvio.

http://www.brillianize.com/Pages/LandingPages/acrylic.html

http://www.novuspolish.com/plastic_clean_shine.html

Both solvents should be able to destroy all "smell marks", they are safe to use in aquariums/insectariums and won't damage acrylic surfaces which could be the biggest issue in your case. Just one more tip - do not use alcohol or bleach.

Sylvio G Codella

I'll look into these, Rustam; thanks for taking the time to answer! Regards - Sylvio

Shian-Loong Bernard Lew

Perhaps an alternative to a total removal of the trails through a solvent would be to block the trail through the use of a commercially- available ant deterrent such as Fluon. In any case there are varying rates of pheromone decay depending on the substrate. And an ineffective solvent /removal technique may emulate this effect rather than control for it.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=SbY3VeKtBda1uQTpxYGoBQ&url=http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/use/publications/JLD/175.pdf&ved=0CCIQFjAAOAo&usg=AFQjCNEFFfpqEZLeIam9mfhGq3vNTtQ0hQ&sig2=wZVYHj5DWCy3-xqT5tPEZw