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borax ant killer
apr204 from Lloyd Erlick,
It's spring and the little red ants are trailing across my kitchen floor. The ant killing products at the store all had an ingredient in common: borax, varying from five to ten per cent. In peanut butter. The packaging carried dire warnings - peanuts are dangerous. Well, my darkroom has no borax, I'm sorry to say. I could not mix a tablepsoon of borax into a blob of peanut butter to send home to the ant queen. So I spent three bucks on three tiny little cans of peanut butter and borax. I could have splurged on the 100 ml squirt bottle of seven per cent borax in water. Just put drops where ants hang out. I suppose it had some sugar, too. Four bucks. regards, --le -----= 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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No more ants?
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I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax.
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:59:49 -0500, "Lew" wrote:
I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. -Lew Yep. Works for athletes foot as well. Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com Please remove the "_" when replying via email |
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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:01:19 GMT, "drhowarddrfinedrhoward"
wrote: No more ants? --- Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week to suffer. --le -----= 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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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:59:49 -0500, "Lew" wrote:
I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. -Lew --- The label states a borax concetration, then in parentheses a Boron equivalence. So I think certain insects do not like to have Boron/borates in their diet. I know the trick of putting powder boric acid within the walls, between the joists, to combat cockroaches. But I think there are new technology insect hormone based approaches for roaches (and fleas, I can state from personal experience!). --le -----= 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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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:41:41 -0600, John
wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:59:49 -0500, "Lew" wrote: I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. -Lew Yep. Works for athletes foot as well. Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com --- No kidding!? The things you learn from the darkroom! Boric acid is available at the pharmacy around here, but do you think those twenty thousand mules can drag any borax north of the border?? I'm going to have to start extracting it from ant killing peanut butter. --le -----= 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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Borax tastes like sugar.
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Borates will do the trick (borax, boric acid).
Do a google for boric acid insects (ants, roaches) or alike and there's a lot in the WEB. Woks for almost any insect if you make the right bait, but it takes a few days. Jorge wrote in news:funq609m814iot2lpc73315o3s0dldsa8d@ 4ax.com: On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:01:19 GMT, "drhowarddrfinedrhoward" wrote: No more ants? --- Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week to suffer. --le -----= 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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