Gil, Thanks for the welcome and especially for all the info. I will try them out today. This is a great place to get ideas and I appreciate that very much. I'll let you all know how in a about a week how I'm doing on the fire ants.
Patti..... Gil Robertson wrote: > Hi! Patti, > Welcome to the list. > > I am in Port Lincoln, Australia and there are a lot of us from Oz and NZ on > the list. > > For most ants, the easiest way is to use Borax. It is a white powder and > sold in supermarkets in the same sort of area as Moth balls, Mentholated > Spirits, Turps etc. > > Get a a small plastic container with a tight fitting lid. I use one about > twice the size of match box, sold in sets of several in the plastics section > of the super market. Make a couple of holes, big enough for the target ants, > up quarter of inch or so from the bottom. > > Mix half a level tea spoon of Borax with about two or three of honey or jam. > Place in the bottom of the container and seal. Place in an ant trail of the > target specie. > > The ants will soon find it and take it home and eat it. It dehydrates the > gut and kills them. The ant typically eats it's own dead, so the small > amount of Borax will kill many ants. It generally takes four to ten days to > wipe out an ant nest. Should another colony take over the same nest before > the soil moisture dissipates the Borax, they will also use it. The small > amount used is not a problem in the soil. The good thing about this method > is that you can take out one target type of ant and leave other useful ones > untouched. > > Gil
