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Re: Natural ant killer

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I live in the Philippines and have a had a terrible biting ant problem.
My mother in law said throwing salt where the colinize will kill them.
I doubted it would work, but the next day they were gone.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Laura Wallenius <lwallenius@hotmail.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 10:51 PM
Subject: Natural ant killer


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I recently found a natural product for killing fire ants (and other types 
too, I think).  It's called Citrex.  It seems to be concentrated citrus oil, 
and it's a little expensive, but it works.  A 32 oz. bottle cost $18, and 
you mix 8 oz. with a gallon of water and drench the mound.  I live in 
Houston; I don't know if it's available everywhere.  I do know it also comes 
in larger bottles (2 1/2 gal?) that are probably cheaper, but the local 
garden center didn't stock them.  A web search might turn something up.

The only bad point might be that I've read earthworms don't like orange 
peels, so this stuff might drive them away.  Small price to pay to avoid the 
pain of fire ant bites and a fear of digging around in the garden.

Laura Wallenius
zone 9b

>From: Valerie Harris <val1968@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
>To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
>Subject: Re: Eggplant ants
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 07:04:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>Thanks for answering, I too have never received
>answers from anyone concerning my problems. I've tried
>everything natural to discourage the ants so I'm
>moving on to biological means. My father-in-law
>suggested I just put Ortho ant killer around the
>eggplants base. Then the ants won't be able to even
>get to the flowers to eat the stems off. I'll let you
>know how it goes but if anyone wants to suggest
>something natural before I use the Ortho stuff, let me
>know!!
>Valerie
>zone 8, N. Florida
>--- Leharner@aol.com wrote:
> > Square Foot Gardening List -
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> >
> > I've got ants crawling up everything in my garden,
> > but they don't seem to be
> > eating any plants. My melons are at the 6 ft high
> > mark on the verticle
> > supports and when I go to turn the vine around the
> > string, there will be an
> > ant at the top checking things out.But the aphids
> > have arrived. this is my
> > first eggplant and my buds have just started to
> > bloom. I'll be interested if
> > you get any helpful replies (I've never even had a
> > response from this list
> > yet).
> > Laura
> > Zone 8
> >
> >
> >
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