Re: OT: ANTS

From: "B. Liddiard" <liddiard@esn.net>

From:  Leslie Liddiard  <liddiard@esn.net>

Hi All,

Just wanted to thank everyone for their philosophy on ants.  I should have
said that I've been using the diazanon around the beds and on my lawn and
then doing as Jan just suggested, backfilling their holes.  I just can't
stand to have the ants around.  Eventually they will find their way to the
house (but I do have several bait traps set up).  Hope this will work.
Sorry for the complaint, but I do appreciate all of your ideas.


Leslie Liddiard
liddiard@esn.net
Goldsboro, NC


-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 10:32 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: OT: ANTS


>From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>
>>This spring a colony of wood ants sprang up under one of my daylily
>clumps. The roots of the clump were completely in the ant-hill.
>Surprisingly, that clump did better than most others.  The tunneling of
>the ants provided aeration to the roots in heavy clay soil, the
>excavated dirt was a natural mulch, and the wastes of the ants provided
>some needed nitrogen--or so I would guess.
>>For information about ant natural history, try JOURNEY TO THE ANTS, by
>Holldobler and Wilson.  Wonderful book.
>>Bill Shear
>
>I will bear this in mind, and try and be very patient with the
>megazillion ants in my garden. Yesterday I found yet another colony of
>ants setting up home under an iris rz. My treatment is to remove their
>protective rock and back fill their tunnels. They usually move on
>quietly. I'm seriously hoping they aren't evolving better methods of
>dealing with this planets' greatest pest - us.
>(Anyone seen 'Sand Kings' ?)
>Jan Clark
>
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