Isn't it ironic that the authors warn you not to get it on your hands! Just how much is in the average diet soft drink?
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armando Del Gobbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:00 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Aspartame.... The World's Best Ant Poison ! > > > From the June 2006 Idaho Observer: > http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20060612.htm > > Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison > > contributed by Jan Jensen of WELLthy Choices > > We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have spent > thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep them > under control but nothing has helped. > > So when I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually > developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered > non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on > it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try. > > I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of > each of our bathrooms. That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen any > carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than the most > deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I simply dump > another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a > year or so again. > > Since posting this information I have had many people tell me of their > success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else > worked. > > We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was > determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly take > it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours, usually. I > have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does not. > Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or something. > > Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did > not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light > rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and ground, > but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing > it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked the mound 2 days > later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the mound up some, > and still saw none of them. > > How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the > ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct, like > stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense of > taste so they can't figure out what is eatable, or smell, so they can't > follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so they start > fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know > that for many species of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively. > > As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas > that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, > despite anything the labeling may indicate. > > I suspect it will work for other insects such as yellow jackets as well, > but have not tested that yet. > > More information on this fantastic poison can be found at: > http://www.dorway.com/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: > 18-Aug-2006 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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