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- From: John McCuan <wawo@yahoo.com>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Ants
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
We have had a lot of large ant colonies in our raised beds, for example among the tomato plants. One non-toxic method to diminish the colony or make it move is to introduce ants from another ant nest. I push a shovel into a big ant nest, get a bunch of ants, and put it onto the nest I want to eliminate.
The ants start fighting right away. It's a little gruesome; sometimes a few hours later we can see the mangled bodies of the "invaders" strewn around the top of the nest. But I've found if I do this a couple of times, the original nest seems to disappear, or moves off to some place where it doesn't bother the garden.
I read about this somewhere - maybe NAFEX? It does seem to work pretty well for us.
Melinda McCuan
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[NAFEX] Ants,
John McCuan, 06/08/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Ants,
Naomi Counides, 06/08/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Ants, Robert C. Mullins, 06/08/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Ants,
Naomi Counides, 06/08/2008
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