Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 23-6-2016 6:20, Alain wrote:

> >> On 21-6-2016 17:29, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> >>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> >>>> Talking of ants, I am in the middle of a grim human-against-ants
> >>>> campaign. Not sure who is going to win at this stage. My forces have
> >>>> had
> >>>> to retreat a couple of yards for lack of ammunition, and major
> >>>> regrouping - on both sides - is under way.
> >>>>
> >>> Assuming you're being literal, I've found a pretty good solution to ant
> >>> infestations, if you like oranges.
> >>>
> >>> Grind up the orange peels and scatter them on the ground around the
> >>> anthill: It
> >>> kills off the fungus that the ants feed on.
> >>>
> >>
> >> As usual, I was grossly exaggerating but the ants need constant
> >> vigilance in some parts of the garden. Oranges: good idea! Thank you, I
> >> shall add them to the ordnance ;-)
> >>
> >
> > Give then corn starch. They love it but can't digest it at all and it
> > end up clogging their digestive thact.
> > For ants, eating corn starch is like us eating plaster of cement powder
> > in large quantity, but tastier.
>
> Great! This is becoming nicely grisly. Maybe I should turn this into an
> image with metal ants eating/drinking something corrosive. Thanks for
> the info!
>
> --
> Thomas

My solution was more about driving them away than killing them.  I'm not a PETA
adherent by any means, unless you translate it as People for the Eating of Tasty
Animals but, at the same time, I hate to cause any living thing to suffer
unnecessarily.

I don't even like to use RAID on spiders.

Which is why I didn't mention the small-grain powder stuff that gets under the
plates of the ants' exoskeleton and locks up their joints and clogs their
breathing aparatus.

Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth. Ant killer you can eat.

Army ants, now.  Those I can see killing with extreme prejudice.  Regular
ecological nightmare.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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