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Re: ants

> >Additionally, a friend of mine suggested mixing *washing soda* (the type
> >used in the laundry) and either flour OR sugar in about a 1-5 (1%
> >washing soda to 5% flour or sugar) and place near ants.
> 
> I keep a thin line of diatamaceous earth (white powdery substance) onn outside 
> windowsills, and door sills=--whereever the ants are coming in.  This stops them 
> without having to use poisons.


	Easier than either of these to obtain and more likely to have
around the house anyway, talcum powder seems to "bum out" ants.  It may
work just as well as the two above-mentioned substances, since it probably
works by the same largely mechanical means.

	I'm not sure where I read this. If it was here on this list,
forgive me for being repetive.  I know that I read it recently, and that I
have tried it.  A day or two after I read it, I woke up at dawn to go the
bathroom, and noticed that a moth had fallen to the floor next to my
sleeping area, and that ants were taking it apart to carry away.  This is
great outdoors, but I wanted to stop the flow of ants into my room, so I
spread some talcum around.  When I got up a couple of hours later, the
ants had beat a hasty retreat.


Keith Dabney
San Francisco
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