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Re: Natural ant killer

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At 11:34 PM 6/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>How does boiling water get all the way down to kill the queen of the fire
>ants?  .. Nickie

That's indeed the hard part!

Boiling water will percolate down into an active fire-ant mound OK but 
usually not to the depths where the workers keep the queen safe.

99% of all fire-ant killing is killing the workers.  Unless a killing agent 
gets carried back deep into the mound by the workers, where it can contact 
the queen, the effort to kill the ants is probably doomed to fail.

Insecticide-laced bait products, which get carried into the mound as a food 
item, are the best bet among today's registered products for fire-ant-control.

--Janet


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