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on 6/17/08 4:53 PM, Grossmann, Gary (DOR) at GaryG@DOR.WA.GOV wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">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. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">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. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">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. <BR>
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