Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

Red wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

sarcasm
Oh, *that's* organic, all right!
/sarcasm

DT

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

Red wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

sarcasm
Oh, *that's* organic, all right!
/sarcasm

DT

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

When I think of the local organic guy on the radio, I think of John
Dromgoole. I'd bet a fairly large amount of money that this is not
something he would recommend.

Actually, calling his store (http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/)
would probably be useful in dealing with the problem.

deg

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

When I think of the local organic guy on the radio, I think of John
Dromgoole. I'd bet a fairly large amount of money that this is not
something he would recommend.

Actually, calling his store (http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/)
would probably be useful in dealing with the problem.

deg

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.


wrote in message
...
Hi!
I live in Bastrop & have an horrific problem with native cutter ants.
They have totally defoliated some of my shrubs & rose bushes. Does
anybody have any advice. Preferablly organic, but at this point
anything will be appreciated!
Thanks!
Alex


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Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.


wrote in message
...
Hi!
I live in Bastrop & have an horrific problem with native cutter ants.
They have totally defoliated some of my shrubs & rose bushes. Does
anybody have any advice. Preferablly organic, but at this point
anything will be appreciated!
Thanks!
Alex


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Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

Red wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

sarcasm
Oh, *that's* organic, all right!
/sarcasm

DT

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

Red wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

sarcasm
Oh, *that's* organic, all right!
/sarcasm

DT

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.

When I think of the local organic guy on the radio, I think of John
Dromgoole. I'd bet a fairly large amount of money that this is not
something he would recommend.

Actually, calling his store (http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/)
would probably be useful in dealing with the problem.

deg

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

The local guy on the radio, who is organic, recommends finding the mound by
tracking the ants and then poking a hole down into it with a piece of re-bar
to the point where you enter the cavity of the mound. Then get a room
fogger and turn it upside down and set it off in to the hole.


wrote in message
...
Hi!
I live in Bastrop & have an horrific problem with native cutter ants.
They have totally defoliated some of my shrubs & rose bushes. Does
anybody have any advice. Preferablly organic, but at this point
anything will be appreciated!
Thanks!
Alex


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Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio,

Many years ago, I ran into a guy who got really mad at these ants,
they were probably Atta texana and he went after them with carbon
disulfide. Locally, these ants are most common along floodplains next
to waterways like Barton Creek. I did not speak much with him after
that. It might have worked but I do not want to even think about it.

If a colony of leaf cutter ants, fungus ants, town ants, what ever you
want to call them, showed up in my yard and wanted a rose plant to
eat, well rose plants are really cheap.

Rusty Mase

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio,

Many years ago, I ran into a guy who got really mad at these ants,
they were probably Atta texana and he went after them with carbon
disulfide. Locally, these ants are most common along floodplains next
to waterways like Barton Creek. I did not speak much with him after
that. It might have worked but I do not want to even think about it.

If a colony of leaf cutter ants, fungus ants, town ants, what ever you
want to call them, showed up in my yard and wanted a rose plant to
eat, well rose plants are really cheap.

Rusty Mase

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:01:15 GMT, "Red" wrote:

The local guy on the radio,

Many years ago, I ran into a guy who got really mad at these ants,
they were probably Atta texana and he went after them with carbon
disulfide. Locally, these ants are most common along floodplains next
to waterways like Barton Creek. I did not speak much with him after
that. It might have worked but I do not want to even think about it.

If a colony of leaf cutter ants, fungus ants, town ants, what ever you
want to call them, showed up in my yard and wanted a rose plant to
eat, well rose plants are really cheap.

Rusty Mase

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

You think so. So did I. There was a single mound in my yard when I lived
offf Cameron Rd. I told the landlord to leave them be. In a few months
it rained, and the entire yard was covered. Hundrends of mounds, over 20
that were more than 6 feet in diameter with multiple openings. Billions
of ants. Stripped the entire yard, every ornamental, all the trees and
most weeds, and spread into the neighbors yard. They were crawling up
the exterior walls. Like a scifi movie. Used nematodes, applied several
times over a few weeks. Took a few more months, but they were beat back.
Weren't eliminated, but beat back. I used to say I had the world's
largest urban colony of leaf-cutter ants.

Richard

Rusty Mase wrote:

If a colony of leaf cutter ants, fungus ants, town ants, what ever you
want to call them, showed up in my yard and wanted a rose plant to
eat, well rose plants are really cheap.

Rusty Mase

Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
 

You think so. So did I. There was a single mound in my yard when I lived
offf Cameron Rd. I told the landlord to leave them be. In a few months
it rained, and the entire yard was covered. Hundrends of mounds, over 20
that were more than 6 feet in diameter with multiple openings. Billions
of ants. Stripped the entire yard, every ornamental, all the trees and
most weeds, and spread into the neighbors yard. They were crawling up
the exterior walls. Like a scifi movie. Used nematodes, applied several
times over a few weeks. Took a few more months, but they were beat back.
Weren't eliminated, but beat back. I used to say I had the world's
largest urban colony of leaf-cutter ants.

Richard

Rusty Mase wrote:

If a colony of leaf cutter ants, fungus ants, town ants, what ever you
want to call them, showed up in my yard and wanted a rose plant to
eat, well rose plants are really cheap.

Rusty Mase