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Getting rid of ants
"SG1" writes:
I use cabbage dust around the ant holes. Works wonders under the hills hoist. Inside I use honey & borax powder. We used to be over run in the kitchen when we first moved in, took about 3 years to convince them the kitchen was MY domain not their's. There seem to be two broad categories of ants that you'll find in the kitchen: those after sweet things such as sugar, honey, jam, etc., and those after meat or fat. I expect the honey + borax lure will only get the first ones. Those in the second category love cheese and bacon crumbs from a pizza, but I found they wouldn't touch sugar or honey. I do wonder whether there might be meat-loving ants in the garden that go around collecting grubs off the cabbages, and aphids off radish leaves, etc. Can anyone vouch for this? Maybe not all ants in the garden are undesirable. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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