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




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No more ants?

I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax.
-Lew

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
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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:01:19 GMT, "drhowarddrfinedrhoward"
wrote:

No more ants?



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Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week
to suffer.
--le


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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




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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


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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



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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


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Borax tastes like sugar.

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


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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:01:19 GMT, "drhowarddrfinedrhoward"
wrote:

No more ants?



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Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week
to suffer.
--le


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wrote:


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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.


Eh? The local grocery store stocks it in the laundry section.

Nick