[Vision2020] Ants

[Ted Moffett]

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Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in the film "Aliens:"

"...nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett


On 5/17/10, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> I say...   nuke them from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.
>
> Paul
>
> Craine Kit wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
> >> <mailto: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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