[Groop] Ants!!!!!

[Grossmann, Gary (DOR)]

Wow!  Sounds like a great flick.  So the ants attack an old hotel and
chase the people inside from floor to floor.  Obviously, the hotel
kitchen did not have any grits.  And it stars Suzanne Summers.  I wonder
if she kills the ants with a Thigh Master?  
 
On the ant front, The two barrells full of ants (along with ant hill
material) that I dumped in a field were almost all dead or gone when I
checked. The ant hill (or more accurately ant hole) still has a lot of
ants, but not nearly as many as before I spread the grits and the
sugared borax.  Hopefully, I either dug up the queen or killed her with
ammonia, sugared borax, or grits.  Of course she could be deep in some
undisturbed chamder cranking out eggs.  We shall see...
 
Gary G.
 
PS  The Long Suffering Mrs G. was cleaning out the refrigerator and way
in the back found some ancient pickled asparagas which needed to be
thrown away.  I thought about using that on the ants, but decided it
would be too cruel.
 

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From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf
Of mark
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:19 AM
To: groop at groo.com
Subject: Re: [Groop] Ants!!!!!



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076214/plotsummary

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKpXUrhQzg

 

 

I would highly recommend this (lol) 

 

difficult to find on DVD though :-(

 

 

 

 

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From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf
Of Grossmann, Gary (DOR)
Sent: 17 June 2008 16:48
To: Tone at moon-shine.net; groop at groo.com
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. :-)

_TONE_

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