[permaculture] Ants & how to make them go away

Jody Troupe jodyt2 at mac.com
Wed Aug 1 14:02:44 EDT 2007


Oh, and in reference to boric acid - if its fine enough, they wouldn't want to cross it, like the talc idea.

But for poisoning, I found it only works on some ants. I just went to battle with ghost ants which evidentally have satellite nests all over so its very hard to poison the entire colony.

The boric acid usually has to be mixed with something they would want to eat, not just straight. Ghost ants are picky eaters (or so I read) and for the most part they seemed to avoid anything that was tainted. Smart little guys I guess.

J. Troupe



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