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| Greenbuilding Archive for July 2001 |
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| 332 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:25:39 2002 |
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Re: [GBlist] RE: carpenter ants
Each summer, when my house undergoes its inevitable couple of invasions by
the tiny "sugar ants" looking for crumbs and sugary residue on kitchen
counters, virtually all attempts to get rid of them have failed heretofore.
However, a few applications of powdered boric acid (available from the
local drug store and grocery store) around their trails, both outside and
inside the house, eliminates them in a single day. This stuff works and is
benign, I will vouch for it.
Hope you have a great day
--Glenn
Chris Koehn
<chris@koehn. To: GB List <greenbuilding@crest.org>
com> cc:
Subject: [GBlist] RE: carpenter ants
07/31/2001
10:04 AM
Don't know what the boric acid MSDS looks like, but boric acid has a
reputation of being quite benign- derived directly from borate (boron-
remember the 20 mule team borax commercials? same stuff..) - a naturally
occurring mineral. This is the least toxic "pesticide" I'm aware of - it's
been used by the green pest control folks for years.
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