Re: Ants on my Big Boys!!!!

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• Subject: Re: Ants on my Big Boys!!!!
• From: G* S* <g*@hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:08:14 PDT

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>From: JLestochi@aol.com
>To: sqft@listbot.com
>Subject: Ants on my Big Boys!!!!
>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:39:15 EDT
Original message:
>One of my plants (actually Better Boys) has an anthill portal right at the 
>base of the stem.  It won't go away.  I'm afraid they might get hungry.  
>What's the best way to take care of this?
>
>TIA
>
>Joe - Zone 6b

Here are some remedies from past replies to your question:

1) Self-rising flour. Sprinkle it around the ants. They injest it and
explode!
2) Mixing yeast with some molasses works the same way!
3) Crab boil for fire ants. It's the stuff you boil shellfish
in. Comes in a bottle in the grocery store. I believe the main
ingredient is cayenne pepper. So tabasco might work just as well.
Apply at sunrise or sunset when the critters are nesting. 
___________________________________________________________________
Keep the faith!
Gay Stoufer
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
gswanstoufer@hotmail.com





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