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fire ants
- Subject: fire ants
- From: the.lists at mgm51.com (Mike.)
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:02:28 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAEZ7Lt3qj0kw4HNS8EKi9bjP+7VkaUEGUS38tStW=Mn0A-QEfw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/12/2014 at 2:59 PM Tom Morris wrote:
|Terro is my go-to for that... it's basically boric acid mixed with a
sugar
|solution. The ants eat it and perish. It's the only thing I've found
that
|works on the infamous Crazy Rasberry Ants that like to eat
electrical
|panels.
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In case someone tries to mix up a batch themselves, Terro is better
described as Borax in a sugar solution[1].
Borax is the trade name of a salt of boric acid.
I've been using a mixture of Borax and honey to keep the ants at bay
for a few years. Use the search engine of your choice to search for
Borax and ants. You'll find a plethora of recipes.
HTH
[1] http://www.terro.com/blog/using-borax-around-children-and-pets
- References:
- fire ants
- From: esuarez at fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar (Eduardo A. Suárez)
- fire ants
- From: blueneon at gmail.com (Tom Morris)