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RE: Ants terrorize children

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At 10:40 PM 3/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Janet, I know this sounds strange, but here in Houston we use Johnson Baby
>powder on the fire ants we use here.  They can't stand it.  Make sure it is
>Johnson baby powder, however, and not a generic type.  I think it is the
>perfume in the Johnson baby powder that they can't stand.  They do move
>elsewhere, and as we have an organic garden, I can't "nuke" them with any
>commercial poison.  Try it and let me know what happens, thanks, Richard

Interesting suggestion!

However, lucky moi doesn't actually have any IFA problems.  I'm just a 
scoche too far north for them to be able to winter over successfully.

Vasha, our original requester for info, is in the heart of Dixie, 
though--Alabama has BIG IFA problems.

Just for fun I will send a note to our fire-ant researcher, Homer Collins, 
down in Biloxi at our Fire Ant Lab and see what he thinks of Johnson's baby 
powder.  He has tested thousands and thousands of possible remedies over a 
20+-year career in that kind of research.  Obviously the person who figures 
out what the silver bullet is will be rich in a big big way.  But there's 
no bullet today and none on the immediate horizon, according to Homer.

Do you think the powder kills them, Richard, or just drives them off?

--Janet


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