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Re: Ant Question

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Thanks for the info!  I don't have trouble with ants, but we have Terminix
treat the lawn for fleas, because our dog is allergic to them.  I would
rather do something like this, than poison the dirt.

Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meunier <tmeunier@ix.netcom.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Ant Question


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>Peg,
>
>I first purchased them from a shop here in Austin called Gardenville.
>They're very vocally supportive of non-invasive gardening, landscaping, and
>pest control.  They're stored in a refrigerator until use.  You usually buy
>two treatments, to be applied 10 days or so apart.  You mix them with water
>in your hose-end sprayer, and spray them on your lawn or garden in the
>evening after a rain, or after you've soaked the area well.   My biggest
>problem was finding a few evenings here in Austin where the temperatures
>weren't 90 degrees at sunset.   The next time I bought them, I tried
finding
>a place closer to home.  It was this spring when I wanted to make sure they
>were still there, before the fleas & fireants appeared.   I checked a
garden
>store, who recommended a nearby PET STORE, of all places.   Sure enough,
>they had them, and the clerk asked me what they were.   I'll never forget
>this conversation:
>
>Clerk:  What are those things, anyway?
>Me:    Nematodes.  Little microscopic worm doodads that munch on your flea
>larvae and fire ant larvae.  They're great because they leave the good bugs
>alone.
>Clerk:  Good bugs???  I just poison 'em all.   There's no such thing as a
>good bug.
>Me:  Sure there are.  You know, bugs that eat the bad bugs.  Like ladybugs
>and praying mantisses.
>Clerk:  Ugh.  Mantisses.  I hate those.   My dogs eat them and get sick.
>Me:   Um... maybe if they weren't full of POISON your dogs wouldn't get
>sick...
>Clerk:  (Gives me the "Environmental Whacko" look and starts thinking about
>napalming her yard because her dogs are allergic to the grass...)
>
>Tom
>(in Austin, where somebody might know what zone it is)
>
>
>
>>Where do you get things like beneficial nematodes?
>>
>>Peg
>>From nematode philanthropists. Margaret L
>
>
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