[Domesteading 00241] Re: query ants

[John E. Johnson]

On your skin or in your yard. I've got bloody ACRES of it...in the yard.
 No weed eating around this house

 John E. Johnson
newagedomeconstruction.com
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Subject: [Domesteading 00238] Re: query ants

Very interesting... Anybody got any magic bullets for the eradication of 
poison ivy...??? ~Christine.

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From: "J & D Goldman" <jmgoldma at dwx.com>
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Subject: [Domesteading 00236] Re: query ants


>A few other things to try for ants:
> -The boric acid trick works good for me too, although some stores sell
> this in a little dropper bottle ready to use.  I put drops on a piece
> of duct tape or just soak a q-tip with it and leave it for them.  I've
> also sprinkled boric acid powder in walls of old houses during
> remodeling to discourage invasions.  I believe some of the structural
> foams have this or materials like it mixed into the resin to stop
> insects.
> - Many will eat common bakers yeast if you mix it with some sugar or a
> little molasses.  The ants that eat it will explode.
> - Steamed bone meal is an excellent ant repellent, and is nontoxic.
> I've put rings of it around ant colonies, and often they will abandon
> that opening rather than cross it.
> - I also have an electric ant electrocutor that some guy was selling
> decades ago. It works on very aggresive species like giant red ants
> but may have little or no affect on others.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sal Cerda <sal.cerda at rocketmail.com>
> To: A forum for the discussion of aspects of independent,off-the-grid
> living <domesteading at sculptors.com>
> Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:58 PM
> Subject: [Domesteading 00234] Re: query
>
>
>>BobV,
>>The 'antser' to excess humidity is an HRV.  Speaking of ants (notice
> how I worked that in?) I am having the same issue with the little
> buggers.
>>I took to feeding them some sugar mixed with boric acid and water.
> Yum.  They suck it it and take it home to mamma.  In few days they
> quit coming back.  Then it's quiet for a while until the next colony
> finds me.
>>At my new dome, they have found that it's fun to chew up the sill
> seal that is between the struts. Then they spit it on the floor in a
> pile of pink powder.  I think they are building a nice cozy dry
> nesting site out of the rains.  Yesterday I took them some boric
> treat.  We'll see how that works.
>>
>>BTW, spraying the ants you see does not stop the problem.  The colony
> is somewhere else and the queen ant is busy laying eggs.  They keep a
> coming.
>>No use poisoning your environment with high-dollar bug spray.  Feed
> them some cheap boric acic mixed with sugar and borax.   Helps stop
> wood rot too.
>>
>>Sal
>>
>>Robert Vance <naptimeatv at msn.com> wrote: "Cracking the upstairs
> windows" is to vent the "humidity ...in the closed system of the dome
> (????)". How did this humidity get there and does it need venting? My
> main problem now is "Acrobatic ants" (...I've had a recurrence of them
> and am wondering how I can get rid of them - the local pest control
> company I used apparently thinks "dead" as in "killing ants", means
> that they "come alive again periodically!").
>>
>>Our dome can be seen at http://homepage.gallaudet.edu/janet.vance
> it's a two story, three bedroom, two bath dome.
>>BobV!
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