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Organic Remedy for Destroying Ant Nests
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:04:55 +0000, uriel13
wrote: 'Christina Websell[_2_ Wrote: ;869820']"uriel13" wrote in message ...- Hi All, I can’t find a section on this site for pests and diseases so I will just post this in the hope that someone might find it of use. This was a tip I got from an organic market gardener on another allotment site about 6 years ago. This requires to be done when the weather is dry for reasons which will become obvious. First locate an area where the ants are active, now sprinkle some dry semolina in a small pile. The worker ants will transport this new food source back to the nest, the queen will be fed the new food first. Having eaten the dry semolina it will expand in the moist environment of the queen's digestive system and she will explode through being unable to digest it. This it was said would also be the fate of the larval queens in waiting who would also be fed the semolina. The result no queens no eggs no ants. I have only had to use this remedy once on my plot and it worked perfectly. Now if I could only find a similar remedy for Slugs, Bindweed and Horsetail I would be in allotment heaven. - List five reasons why you need get rid of ants and tell me what harm they do. You won't be able to. Tina Hi Tina, 1. They bite me. 2. They invade Bumble Bee nests that I protect on my plot 3. They invade bird nests in my hedge bush. 4. They kill Hoverflies. 5. They kill Butterflies. 6. They get into everything in my hut. 7. They attack anything that moves. I could go on but the list is endless, I humbly suggest that you observe these hoodies of the insect world as I have done. Criticism is best employed from a position that is unassailable through depth of observation. PS:- Bumble Bees and Butterflies are fast becoming endangered species, ants on the other hand can be counted in the billions and probably trillions. Anything that I can do to protect these friends on my plot I will do with great gusto. No offence intended but I honestly can’t think of any reason why I should let ants decide what lives and what dies on my plot through force of numbers. Strange to see the sort of thing that gives some nuts a hard on. Do you goose step everywhere too? |
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