[Vision2020] Ants

[Craine Kit]

There is a commercial version of this called Terro.

I got some a few years ago (I think at Safeway). It is very effective.  
The ants carry it back to the nest so the millions are wiped out.

Kit Craine


On May 17, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Janesta <janesta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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