Hi, You need to use active bakers yeast. The molases and sugar are not only bait, but food for the yeast. When the mixture hits a nice moist ant tummy the yeast grows very quickly!
BTW, it works like bread - it takes a while to rise, so the ants go away and they don't come back. Give it a week or two and you'll won't see them again. In the begining you may think you are just feeding them, because they have time to tell the whole nest where the food is. Pretty soon you'll see the numbers diminish. quietcove ----- Original Message ----- From: "kukurippa _" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:18 PM Subject: CS>RE: Ant Remedy > Hi, > > Just pulled the following recipe from the archive for getting rid of ants. > Question: what type of yeast are we talking about here? Brewer's > nutritional type of yeast? Or active yeast that you use for baking? > > Thanks, > > Eleanor > > > Fool proof non-toxic recipe for > ants. > > 1/3 cup molases > 1/4 cup sugar > 2 tbs yeast > mix into a paste > > Spread a small amount on plastic or > paper and place > out > of the way, but where ants can get to > it. > > > The sugar and molases are irresistable > to ants and > act as food for the yeast. Gives them > such a bad > case of gas that they literally explode. Really. Give it a week or two > and you > won't see them again. > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
