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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: ants in the catfood
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:12:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.161210.14747@bilver.uucp>
- References: <25JAN199314291861@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <26JAN199315115227@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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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?
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- >You have ants at this time of year? How did you manage that - I thought
- >all the little creepy crawlys were frozen by now!
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- Takes more than a 40 degree overnight low to kill ants. Thats what we
- had last night, and that's the coldest it's been in over a year.
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- Last couple of weeks, the lows have been in the 50's and the highs in
- the mid70s. And the cool nights drive the insects indoors. Aggh!
- Invasion of the Palmetto bugs!
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