<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>There is a commercial version of this called Terro.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br><br>Kit Craine<div><br></div></div><div><br>On May 17, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Janesta <<a href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com">janesta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Mom used Borax soap and sugar water. They eat the sugar, and die from the Borax. Works every time!<br><br>Janesta<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com"><a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com">tiedye@turbonet.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Man, you have one heck of a long attention span, I would have lost
count at around 30. <br>
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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.<br>
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So I say let them duke it out, and then poison the red ones. <br>
<br>
I have a new kind of ant problem, they look like carpenter ants but
they go for food<br>
especially sugar. I'm thinking about trying to import another hive of
red and blacks to get rid of them.<br>
<br>
Dave<div class="im"><br>
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On 05/17/2010 01:52 PM, Carl Westberg wrote:
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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.<br>
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