Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
So I guess mixing with soybean or peanut meal would be a good choice. Or do they only go for animal proteins? Marshall Renee wrote: Probably not, unless you mix it with meat or some protein they like. The standard thing for 'regular' ants is mixing borax with sugar. But fire ants don't bother with sweets. They go for protein. Samala, Renee /---Original Message---/ Will fire ants take it? -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Hi Marshall, I don't know how fire ants respond to borax (Not 20 mule team, or boraxo, BTW) but the leaf -miners go for it as do the red ants which live in the dead white and black oaks around here; I do not believe they are sugar eaters per-se, and they'll munch a mouse carcass if the yellow-jackets don't beat them to it. Whoever made the rather shaky determination that borax tastes like sugar to ants may have drawn an unsupportable conclusion. I'd suggest we could learn more - well, you could - by putting some by a fire ant trail or nest and seeing what happens. I don't have fire ants - yet, anyway - and hope devoutly not to. Take care, M. On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:25 -0400, Marshall Dudley wrote: So I guess mixing with soybean or peanut meal would be a good choice. Or do they only go for animal proteins? Marshall Renee wrote: Probably not, unless you mix it with meat or some protein they like. The standard thing for 'regular' ants is mixing borax with sugar. But fire ants don't bother with sweets. They go for protein. Samala, Renee /---Original Message---/ Will fire ants take it? -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
I don't know; it's certainly cheap enough, give it a whirl. I get mine at the feed store, but loaned the box out and it hasn't come back. Take care, M. On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:18 -0400, Marshall Dudley wrote: Will fire ants take it? Marshall Malcolm wrote: Hi, I don't know about boron, the element, but borax is definitely deadly to ants of various persuasions that live around my area, from sugar ants to leaf-miners with a few big ol' meanies in-between. Apparently it tastes like sugar to them (though who figured that out I dunno?) They take it back to the nest where it wipes out the entire colony. I've never had to band it around the house or garden - as a matter of fact I'd think rain would dissolve it? - I just put it where they are coming and going, with something overhead to keep the rain and dew off if necessary - and they do the rest. Take care, Malcolm -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Probably not, unless you mix it with meat or some protein they like. The standard thing for 'regular' ants is mixing borax with sugar. But fire ants don't bother with sweets. They go for protein. Samala, Renee ---Original Message--- Will fire ants take it?
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Hi, I don't know about boron, the element, but borax is definitely deadly to ants of various persuasions that live around my area, from sugar ants to leaf-miners with a few big ol' meanies in-between. Apparently it tastes like sugar to them (though who figured that out I dunno?) They take it back to the nest where it wipes out the entire colony. I've never had to band it around the house or garden - as a matter of fact I'd think rain would dissolve it? - I just put it where they are coming and going, with something overhead to keep the rain and dew off if necessary - and they do the rest. Take care, Malcolm On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:38 -0400, zzekel...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 9/30/2009 3:49:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, fuzzm...@frontier.com writes: I've also heard it's good for fleas? Is it? I have read that it works, also as an ant other creepys barrier when put in a 2 line around the outside of your house...Haven't tried it. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Will fire ants take it? Marshall Malcolm wrote: Hi, I don't know about boron, the element, but borax is definitely deadly to ants of various persuasions that live around my area, from sugar ants to leaf-miners with a few big ol' meanies in-between. Apparently it tastes like sugar to them (though who figured that out I dunno?) They take it back to the nest where it wipes out the entire colony. I've never had to band it around the house or garden - as a matter of fact I'd think rain would dissolve it? - I just put it where they are coming and going, with something overhead to keep the rain and dew off if necessary - and they do the rest. Take care, Malcolm -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Good Question. I know the ants around here will take it if I mix it with a little sugar first, and dampen it. I did that one year when we had some carpenter ants wandering around the kitchen. It worked very well. We used to use boric acid for roaches back when we lived around the orange groves. On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Marshall Dudley wrote: Will fire ants take it? Marshall Malcolm wrote: Hi, I don't know about boron, the element, but borax is definitely deadly to ants of various persuasions that live around my area, from sugar ants to leaf-miners with a few big ol' meanies in-between. Apparently it tastes like sugar to them (though who figured that out I dunno?) They take it back to the nest where it wipes out the entire colony. I've never had to band it around the house or garden - as a matter of fact I'd think rain would dissolve it? - I just put it where they are coming and going, with something overhead to keep the rain and dew off if necessary - and they do the rest. Take care, Malcolm -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSOT and borax ( fleas? ants!)
Will fire ants take it? Here's some info on fire ant control = http://tinyurl.com/ycrl6r2 Smitty -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
