Thanks for the tip

Jimbo
"PrecisionMachinisT" wrote in message
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"Jimbo" wrote in message
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The following ant bait is cheap, reasonable safe around children and pets
and it really work great. When I first heard about it I was sure it
would
be a wate of time, I was wrong. Problem is it's very hard to let the
ants
walk buy wihout wanting to kill them. You have to let them take the
poison
back to their nests or your wasting your time.

Good luck and let us know if it works for you

Jimbo





Ant recipe:

ANT RECIPE

From CBC "Radio Noon" phone-in

This recipe will give you an ant "trap" that will feed a poison (to ants,
not people) to an ant nest, wiping out the whole colony. It is better
than
many, since it's not highly toxic to humans.

Ingredients:

2 c boiling water

6 tbs. granulated sugar

1 tsp. boric acid (ask your druggist)

cotton balls

empty plastic yogurt tub, or the like

Method:

1) Make up the liquid solution, let it cool.

2) Punch a series of holes near the bottom of the yogurt container, so
the
ants will be able to get in and out.

3) Saturate enough cotton balls in the liquid to cover the bottom of the
container.

4) Place the saturated balls in the container, and put on the lid, so
flies
etc. won't get in.

5) Place this container somewhere near a path the ants travel.

6) Reserve excess liquid in the refrigerator to periodically moisten the
cotton balls.

How it works:

The ants, attracted by the sugar, take the syrup back to the ant hill.
The
boric acid eventually kills the whole colony. It takes 2 to 3 weeks. This
works better than faster-acting poisons that some ants may learn too
quickly
to avoid.


Try peanut butter instead if they don't agressively take sugar
bait--apparently depends upon whether the ants are craving mainly protein
or carbohydrates.

Perhaps a mix of the two.......

--

SVL