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ANTS: Good News Vs Bad News
Many | Aug 24, 2014 | Yosemitest

Posted on 08/24/2014 5:11:16 PM PDT by Yosemitest



TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: brownreclusespider; crazyants; fireants; nylanderiafulva; rasberrycrazyants; tomrasberry
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To: Cold Heart; Yosemitest

I also use BORAX mixed with table sugar. Dry. The ants seem to die within a few days.


41 posted on 08/24/2014 8:06:24 PM PDT by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
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To: jmmec2014; Yosemitest

I’ve bookmarked your thread, Yosemitest. Thanks very much for the posting.

Welcome to FR as a poster/member, jmmec2014!!!
Thank you so much for your excellent information.


42 posted on 08/24/2014 8:14:12 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: jmmec2014; Yosemitest; onyx

A few more points and I’m done:

1. Fipronil has worked extremely well and has been safe in my experience. If you follow the instructions for ant control for Termidor, you’d be spraying a 0.06% concentrated spray of Fipronil. I use Frontline to kill fleas & ticks on my dogs (it is applied directly at the base of the neck and it spreads throughout the coat via the oil glands), and it has a 9.8% concentration of Fipronil.

2. The article you quoted mentions the use of Fipronil but also says, “These treatments are often breeched within 2-3 months post application.” I’ve not experienced that in my use of Fipronil. I live in a mountainous area: real 4 seasons if you ignore droughts & floods, and spraying 2x yearly since 2010 is all I’ve needed.

3. Quicken software tells me that I purchased Termidor in 2010 from the following company:

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/

Amazon doesn’t sell this product directly, and some reviews on Amazon are claiming that their seller, “WeSellDirect”, are not selling a legitimate version of Termidor? Don’t know about that. So be careful.

Take care & good luck....


43 posted on 08/24/2014 8:59:33 PM PDT by jmmec2014
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To: jmmec2014

Thank you so much, again.

I don’t have the problem ... yet, but I’ve noticed an extraordinary increase in ants this year so I’m concerned.


44 posted on 08/24/2014 9:13:14 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: jmmec2014
Thank you for everything you've added to this thread.
Welcome to Free Republic.
45 posted on 08/24/2014 9:15:06 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: onyx

Welcome to the war against CRAZY ANTS.


46 posted on 08/24/2014 9:16:17 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Aria

In southeastern WA we do have scorpions, aggressive house spiders, brown recluse spiders (non-breeding, probably) and a fair number of rattlesnakes, but few slugs. Lots of small ants but no sensationally bad species.


47 posted on 08/24/2014 9:26:33 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Yosemitest
I really and truly feel for you. Sounds horrid.
48 posted on 08/24/2014 9:34:10 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx; djf; Aria; jespasinthru
Take a look at this video.
I think it's worth your time.

They're relocating by traffic in automobiles, trains, and any other freight they can crawl into, such as ships and airplanes.
49 posted on 08/24/2014 9:50:39 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: steve86

You must be the other side of the Cascades. I do think we have brown recluse here but I’ve never seen one, far as I know.


50 posted on 08/24/2014 10:00:09 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: Yosemitest

Bump for later reading.


51 posted on 08/24/2014 10:08:00 PM PDT by Mjaye
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To: jespasinthru
At least America doesn’t have massive hordes of voracious, inch-long army ants marching paths of destruction through our neighborhoods.

Not yet. We didn't have fire ants, or this new species, or pythons in the everglades, or some SE Asian fish destroying our fisheries either until recently. But now we do.

Forgive me for being a "Cassandra" but this current influx of invasive creatures is little more than our form of the plagues of Egypt, and it results from our having turned our back on God.

52 posted on 08/24/2014 10:14:32 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Yosemitest
Also watch:
53 posted on 08/24/2014 10:18:07 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Robwin
I agree about the Biblical Reasons.
54 posted on 08/24/2014 10:21:13 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: onyx; djf; Aria; jespasinthru

Be sure to watch the videos in Comment #53.


55 posted on 08/24/2014 10:23:26 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Aria

We also have small lizards if you go looking for them but I like the little guys.


56 posted on 08/24/2014 10:23:51 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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57 posted on 08/24/2014 10:40:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Aria
The Brown Recluse is a dangerous Spider.
Learn how to identify it and what to do.
58 posted on 08/24/2014 10:49:37 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Nailbiter

bflr - see recluse spider down thread


59 posted on 08/24/2014 11:09:02 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

60 posted on 08/24/2014 11:16:22 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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