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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:21:38 -0700, David Remley
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:10:05 -0700, Susan wrote:
Do you know if I just buy ammonia and mix it at the correct percentage
that
it will still kill ants without staining my carpets blue?
Windex isn't ammonia you idiot. It's alcohol!
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSD...eaner_blue.htm

And alcohol has no effect on the ant species. Use bleach instead.

Forget all of these nonsense quack cures. Go to any hardware store and
get some TERRO. It will get rid of ALL the ants, not just the ones you
happen to see.


Yup. Terro is it. It used to just come in a bottle and you had to apply it
to cardboard or those plastic ant traps that don't work.

Back then the active ingredient in Terro was arsenic.

Now you can get it
in little plastic containers that you snip a hole in the bottom so the ants
can get in.

Nowdays the active ingredient is boric acid. Still kills ants pretty
well, but it's a lot less hazardous to have around the house than
the arsenic was.

HellT