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Date Posted: 08:48:43 05/25/02 Sat
Author: Kat
Author Host/IP: 24.45.229.222
Subject: Ants - accccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Problem With Ants

I just read this tip to keep ants from moving in.
Draw a line of Crayola Chalk around windows and doors outside your home, and around water pipes inside your home. Ants will not cross a chalk line.

ANTS

I put chalk around my dog food bowls and it seeps to be quite effective if you draw the line hard enough so the buggers can't cross it. Cinnamon also works, it clogs them up and they belly up.

This works pretty well for me. LONG TERM ANT CONTROL BAIT.
From Organic Gardening

Dissolve 1 teaspoon boric acid and 6 tablespoons of sugar in 2 cups of water. (Boric acid is available at any drugstore.) Do this in a clean jar so you can see when all the boric acid crystals are dissolved. Soak some cotton
balls in the solution. Make bait dispenser out of old plastic margarine tubs with lids. Punch holes in sides of tubs so the ants can get inside. Put the soaked cotton balls into the container, and cover them with the lids so the bait won't dry out.

Place the bait containers wherever you see ants. Clean the containers and freshen up the bait solution at least once a week. Be patient! Let those worker ants continually carry boric acid back to feed the ants in their nest.

After a few weeks, reduce the boric acid content to � teaspoon boric acid for each solution. Using the very low dose makes it more likely that the surviving ants will continue eating the bait and taking it back to the nest.

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