Fru-Gal Friends

Subject: Ant Control/Baits Fri 20 Oct 2006, 6:28 am

Ant Control
3 cups water
4 teaspoons boric acid
2 cups granulated sugar

Mix, then pour half a cup of the mixture into three or four empty jam jars wrapped with masking tape and loosely packed half full with absorbent cotton. Smear the bait along the outside of the jar and set along ant trail. The ants will swarm into the jar. Some will carry the mixture back to the colony, where it will kill other ants.

CAUTION:
If you have small children or pets, screw the lids onto the jars, poke several small holes through the lid and smear some of the bait on the inside of the jar.

Ant Bait
1 part boric acid
2 parts mint jelly or cracker crumbs

Mix, then place the bait in a container with ant-size holes in the lid. Place away from children because boric acid can be harmful if swallowed. Dispose of the container after use.

The worker ants enter the trap, feed on the poison and carry it back to their nest. Once inside the nest, they feed bits of the poisonous material to the queen and immature ants, and the entire colony is eradicated.

Grits: just take a cup or two of grits and sprinkle them around the ants mound in the yard. When ants see food, they immediately tell everyone in the colony and then start working to feed the colony. An ant's body is made almost entirely of water. Grits are food that soak up water. When an ant eats these grits, his body gets all the water soaked up out of his little body and dies. This is a much better alternative to getting rid of ants in your yard than wasting money on expensive bags of ant killer or bills from your local pest control.

Ant Traps
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup baking yeast

Mix all ingredients in a small bowl. Smear a thin layer of the mixture on each of six 3 x 5-inch index cards. Place the cards, syrup side up, in area where ants travel.
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Subject: Re: Ant Control/Baits Sat 28 Oct 2006, 11:13 pm

thanks for the great hints Vicki
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Gayla

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Subject: Re: Ant Control/Baits Sat 28 Oct 2006, 11:19 pm

Great tips but I don't get the masking tape part of the first one....sticky side out or in? I don't get the significance of that bit, sorry.
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Subject: Re: Ant Control/Baits Sun 29 Oct 2006, 2:59 am

I thought this was useful & informative also:

http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/english/consum/ants-e.html

I think I'll try the idea about the pet dishes, makes sense but our dogs would probably drink the water...lol.
We're having a terrible problem at the moment with ants getting into our kitchen although our house is overdue for it's yearly pest-spray, cockroaches are on the move again too *shudder*

What a Face

<--this is what I look like when I see one and my screams can be heard far and wide! DS laughed his head off at me a few nights ago, I saw a cockroach run across the garage floor and I squealed and did my version of 'getting jiggy with it!'.
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Subject: Re: Ant Control/Baits Sun 29 Oct 2006, 8:21 am

Not sure about the tape. Maybe so the ants won't slide down the jar??? I think it would be sticky side in
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Subject: Re: Ant Control/Baits Sun 29 Oct 2006, 7:34 pm

Thanks Vicki Smile

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