RE: Insecticide
- Subject: RE: Insecticide
- From: T* <t*@optonline.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:57:32 -0400
Dave,
NutraSweet does not kill ants nor was it developed as a poison.
Check out this link:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/antpoison.asp
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Dave Squires
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:34 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: Insecticide
I hear that good old Nutrasweet (Aspartame) kills ants.
They carry it back to the nest and it kills all that eat it.
It's not as noxious a poison as some of the others, but it is a poison
that ants love because if fools them into thinking it's sugar.
Fools us humans too it seems.
Stephen Jepsen wrote:
>Kethy,
>
>Pros identify the species of ant then choose an appropriate bait station.
>This keeps the poison bait out of the environment.
>
>
>Valley Green, Inc
>Stephen J. Jepsen
>823 Nichols Avenue
>Stratford, CT 06614-3930
>Tel: 914-260-7176
>efax: 206-203-2397
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
>Kathie Morgan
>Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:50 PM
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Re: Insecticide
>
>Hi Guys!
>
>Along the same lines, we have ants. Not an army of them, just a small
>but steady flow. We cannot find a commercial product that purports to
>be effective against ants and yet won't harm the plants/soil.
>
>What do you all use?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kathie in Santa Rosa, home of the Barenchi 954
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