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- From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
- Subject: Re: ants in the catfood
- Message-ID: <26JAN199317325953@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:32 EST
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- In article <26JAN199315115227@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, prkenne@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (CAROL SHARP) writes...
- >In article <25JAN199314291861@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, piltch@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Nancy Piltch) writes...
- >>I came home yesterday to the sight of ants swarming around the catfood
- >>dish (and assorted bits of food on the floor.) Any ideas how to eliminate
- >>the ants without poisoning the cats too?
- >
- >You have ants at this time of year? How did you manage that - I thought
- >all the little creepy crawlys were frozen by now!
-
- Not even *close* ... they're just deeper in the ground, below the frost
- line. If there's a crack for them to enter your house through that is *also*
- below the frostline (i.e., a dirt floor basement like mine), you can get
- some *prize-winners* during the winter. I saw one the other day that could
- have *carried* the cat food bowls if he didn't already have my kitchen
- table strapped to his back ! :-)
-
-
- Heck, I still have *flies*, and some really big ones at that. Luckily the
- cats will catch and eat them, so I could probably hide their food bowls
- long enough for the ants to starve... Oh, the benefits of a century-home.
-
- :-)
-
- >I'd try to see where
- >they are coming in first and put the spray or whatever at or before the
- >source. For instance, we had them coming into the house though a pantry
- >that has holes where the washer plumbing comes in so we sprayed those holes
- >and pipes and kept the pantry closed. I'd suggest the enclosed ant traps
- >but know from experience that the average kitty thinks they're hockey pucks
-
- *And* that they don't stop the problem, only contain it partially. If you
- buy enough ant traps to assure that the ants carry enough poison back to
- their nests to kill *all* of the ants in proximity to your house, you'll be
- the CEO of Raid within the month.
-
- -- Stephen
-
- {Experimental .sig # 30245/T}
-
- Humans --
-
- Beings stupid enough to create their own monsters, and then
- curse their luck when they run into them.
-