[Groop] Ants!!!!!

[Alexander Durnan]

Try Terro. It is poison,but you only have to use a little bit.  Its a syrup that you pour a drop on a small card, then the ants lap it up.  Within a day or two...no more ants. They feed it to the queen and she dies.  As goes the queen, so goes the colony.  I've used this successfully myself many times.
Alex
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Grossmann, Gary (DOR) 
  To: Tone at moon-shine.net ; groop at groo.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008 11:48
  Subject: Re: [Groop] Ants!!!!!


  Hi Tone!

  Thanks for the advice.  I had read about diatomaceous earth in my Internet search for effective ant killing without complex chemical compounds.  I was a little dubious about it working in the perpetually moist Pacific Northwest, but that concern may be misplaced.  

  btw, I did not use gasoline.  First, I dug up a lot of the hill (and ants) and put it (them) is a 55 gallon drum I have and just carted it off about a quarter mile.  After doing that 3 times, I had a large flat spot with a hole in the middle and about a zillion ants going crazy.  Then I spread a couple gallons of ammonia around, hoping that if I hadn't already killed the queen that the ammonia would do it.  (It's very toxic but breaks down very quickly.  Works great on underground yellow jacket nests.)  However, it only temporarily slowed down the ants, which started rebuilding.  So that's when I dug up even more ants, making the hole even deeper and wider, and then sprinkled several pounds of sugared borax and some grits.  Supposedly when they eat the grits, the grits swell up inside and the ants blow up.  Sort of the opposite of diatomaceous earth.  When i did the second round of digging I did not find anymore larve, so maybe the queen is nailed and the remaining workers are just on autopilot.  One can hope. 

  Actually, Larry had the best idea.  I need to find an ant with a tiny orange tunic and a pair of teeny tiny katana and put him in the ant hill.  

  Gary G. 
    


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  From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of Tone
  Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:37 PM
  To: groop at groo.com
  Subject: Re: [Groop] Ants!!!!!


  Gary,

              Rather than blowing up a drum of gasoline or whatever it is you are doing to get rid of insect pests, try something called "diatomaceous earth." It is a white powder that is composed of fossilized skeletons of marine and freshwater organisms that lived 20 million years ago. A protein in it attracts roaches and some other insects while the power scratches up their waxy outer coating. Within a day or two the bugs die of dehydration. Also, if you leave the stuff in place and do not get it wet, it will continue working and working.

              Any bug walking through the stuff gets scratched up like it is glass or something to them. It is nontoxic and useful against ants, earwigs, fleas, sow bugs, silverfish, millipedes, roaches, and weevils. There might still be a company in Mexico, Missouri (where Mexico is the name of the town not the country) by the name of Brookstone, which sells the stuff under the product name "Insectigone". This might be an old number for Brookstone, but maybe you can try your luck at it: 800-926-7000.

   

  Sometime environmentally friendly non-toxic solutions to problems are the best solutions. J

  _TONE_



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