Re: Hey Tim OTP
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- Subject: Re: Hey Tim OTP
- From: G* O*
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 06:57:50 -0400
Good for you, Narda. Just like me to point out the problem without offering
a solution. You've taken care of that for me!
I've often wanted to ask a pesticide physiologist about the next step in
the food chain with this stuff. For example, I have camel crickets in my
basement, as does everyone else in Oak Ridge. I have my Mother's
Roach/Cricket killer recipe of borax, bacon grease and flour, and have
wanted to do as you suggest, make a "Cricket Motel" to protect the cat. The
problem is that the cat likes nothing better than a snack of cricket when
she can catch one (all but the hind legs, she always leaves the hind legs).
And acc. to my Mom, this stuff slows the critters down before it kills them.
So my question is whether eating the crickets that ate the borax will kill
a cat, or a small child :-)
Wonder what the LD-50 is for this stuff...
Gerry
At 09:21 PM 5/26/00 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Cheerios and grape jelly, how about drilling holes in plastic containers so
>that only the ants have access? I know that borax is dangerous to children
>because we have used it numerous times to make gak like compounds and I
>always have them wash their hands and then wonder why it isn't dangerous to
>play with the gak.
>
>Do you think that rabbits would be attracted to this concoction? Just now
>let the terror Boston back in the house after she cleared the yard of the
>varmints, temporary I am sure.
>
>Thanks a bunch, Narda
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