[Vision2020] Ants

[Janesta]

Mom used Borax soap and sugar water. They eat the sugar, and die from the
Borax. Works every time!

Janesta

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:

>  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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