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Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
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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! Have you tried posting in news:alt.consumers.pest-control ? They may have some tips for you. 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson ************************************************* http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
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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! Have you tried posting in news:alt.consumers.pest-control ? They may have some tips for you. 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson ************************************************* http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
wrote:
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! Have you tried posting in news:alt.consumers.pest-control ? They may have some tips for you. 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson ************************************************* http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
Alex..I you an still get it...spread and rub ito the stem areas an OLD
but effective Tobacco Based bug killer called "Black Leaf 40"...if you cannot, then take a few ouces of pure tobacco( strong type) and make an infusion and Spray it on the lower leaves and upper stems...let me know IF it works as DDT if you can get it at all is also very effective. Any sulphur-based spray may also be effective if available. Stay in touch. B-0b1 wrote: 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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- -- "Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon. |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
Alex..I you an still get it...spread and rub ito the stem areas an OLD
but effective Tobacco Based bug killer called "Black Leaf 40"...if you cannot, then take a few ouces of pure tobacco( strong type) and make an infusion and Spray it on the lower leaves and upper stems...let me know IF it works as DDT if you can get it at all is also very effective. Any sulphur-based spray may also be effective if available. Stay in touch. B-0b1 wrote: 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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- -- "Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon. |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:43:02 -0600, wrote:
Get some dish deturgent mix one table spoon of deturgent with water in a spray bottle spray the plants with it all over the leaves it tastes awful and it is relitively harmless to most plants and will keep ants my mom used it on roses and it kept off ants aphids and a few kinds of fungi hope it works for you regards michelle 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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:43:02 -0600, wrote:
Get some dish deturgent mix one table spoon of deturgent with water in a spray bottle spray the plants with it all over the leaves it tastes awful and it is relitively harmless to most plants and will keep ants my mom used it on roses and it kept off ants aphids and a few kinds of fungi hope it works for you regards michelle 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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:08:42 -0600, B-0b1 wrote:
Alex..I you an still get it...spread and rub ito the stem areas an OLD but effective Tobacco Based bug killer called "Black Leaf 40"...if you cannot, then take a few ouces of pure tobacco( strong type) and make an infusion and Spray it on the lower leaves and upper stems...let me know IF it works as DDT if you can get it at all is also very effective. Any sulphur-based spray may also be effective if available. Stay in touch. B-0b1 Tobacco based insecticides are generally not recommended these days due to their toxicity and the possibility that they will introduce tobacco mosaic virus. deg |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
Dewitt wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:08:42 -0600, B-0b1 wrote: Alex..I you an still get it...spread and rub ito the stem areas an OLD but effective Tobacco Based bug killer called "Black Leaf 40"...if you cannot, then take a few ouces of pure tobacco( strong type) and make an infusion and Spray it on the lower leaves and upper stems...let me know IF it works as DDT if you can get it at all is also very effective. Any sulphur-based spray may also be effective if available. Stay in touch. B-0b1 Tobacco based insecticides are generally not recommended these days due to their toxicity and the possibility that they will introduce tobacco mosaic virus. deg Mosaic Virus??? Hadn't seen that yet..My grandad used Black Leaf 40 for over 35 . yrs and NEVER had ANY problems. He was not into commerical sprays at all. I'm talking PURE tobacco's NOT a mixed Tobacco spray made by some chemical . company...old fashioned and reliable...but perhaps not even available anymore?? A GOOD pure cleaned smokable product is what I'm recommending..unless now Tobacco causes lung fungus?? Since I do NOT smoke...I'd not heard of this?? Can . Humans get it.??.as I know a gal that stuffs empty ciggy "ready-made" shells with . fine pipe tobacco foolishly thinking she's gaining something and NOT realizing that . the metallic poisoing as well as Carbon Monoxide comes from the flax paper alone!! Oh well...ALL bad habits all have their "Grave-yard" preparations?? LOL! B-0b1 -- |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
"Michelle" wrote in message ... On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:43:02 -0600, wrote: Get some dish deturgent mix one table spoon of deturgent with water in a spray bottle spray the plants with it all over the leaves it tastes awful and it is relitively harmless to most plants and will keep ants my mom used it on roses and it kept off ants aphids and a few kinds of fungi hope it works for you regards michelle *postscript to that one - Dove Dishwashing Liquid* Dove is totally organic, and seems to work quite well with MOST destructive insects. |
Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
Nematodes. Specific to cutter ants. Probably can get them through the
web or most organic nurseries. Takes a while to start, but are VERY effective. Richard wrote: 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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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