[Vision2020] Ants

[Dave]

Man, you have one heck of a long attention span, I would have lost count 
at around 30.

Mother nature got rid of my carpenter ants for me by moving in a hive of 
red and black mound ants (the real vicious kind).  I was about to kill 
the mound ants so that I could travel that part of my yard without 
getting bit when I noticed then carring off carpenter ant bodies.  So I 
put up with the mound ants until there was no sign of the carpenter 
ants, then I killed the mound with a very small amount of ant dust and a 
shovel.

So I say let them duke it out, and then poison the red ones.

I have a new kind of ant problem, they look like carpenter ants but they 
go for food
especially sugar.  I'm thinking about trying to import another hive of 
red and blacks to get rid of them.

Dave


On 05/17/2010 01:52 PM, Carl Westberg wrote:
> I think I counted 1,458,276 ants on my front lawn sidewalk and front 
> porch steps today before I lost count.  Both black ants and red ants, 
> and there's bad blood between them.  I saw a huge brawl on one of the 
> steps today.  Red ants were definitely winning.  While I am generally 
> a pacifist, I have murder in my heart vis-a-vis these critters.  Does 
> anyone know of an effective, non-toxic method of sending them to ant 
> heaven while not hurting other innocent, 4 legged or winged friends?  
> I'm not sure Raid is the answer.
>
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