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- From: lhuffmanp@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: ants in the catfood
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155004.1@stsci.edu>
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- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
- References: <25JAN199314291861@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan25.195612.15127@inel.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:50:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.195612.15127@inel.gov>, kkv@inel.gov (Jamie J Ferguson) writes:
- >
- > I had ants in potted plants (outside) when I lived in Florida,
- > and my neighbor told me to sprinkle grits around them. It
- > seemed to work. I think that the grits expand and the ants
- > explode (or something similarly disgusting). I've also
- > heard red pepper works, but it didn't with my ants (at least
- > not noticeably so).
- >
- >
- > Jamie
-
- This my have some merit. We had a guy at work who rescued some wild bunny
- babies and kept them in a little box. He fed them Quaker Oats with water as
- a washer. He was devasted one day soon after to tell us that they were all
- dying. Turns out they had stuffed themselves on the Quaker Oats then sipped
- water. The oats expanded and blew the poor things up. We called him
- the bunny-killer and I guess we were none too kind.
-