[Groop] Ants!!!!!

[Chris Schechner]

The problem with feeding them grits is that they start to watch NASCAR!


on 6/17/08 4:53 PM, Grossmann, Gary (DOR) at GaryG at DOR.WA.GOV wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the ideas. I should explain that this GINORMUS ant
> colony is in my "back 40" which is how we refer to the back half of the one
> (1) acre I live on that has never been landscaped and is all wild and
> surrounded on three sides with similar property.  Our concern is that the
> colony will expand towards humble Grossmann Manor.
>  
> I decided not to go with Terro because the grits and borax/sugar is supposed
> to do basically the same thing:  Kill the workers, but not before they feed it
> to the queen and kill her  And Eric's article notwithstanding, Borax sounded
> safer, and my understanding is that Grits are only poisonous if you were born
> in New York City.  I'll let you know if it works.
>  
> By the way, I dumped one of the 55 gallon drums of ants on another ant hill
> located on public property because I had read that if you mix two ant hills,
> they will kill each other.  So I was hoping for a major Ant Fray, but I was
> disappointed.  They just started working together.  Bummer.
>  

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