Carpenter ants only chew into moist rotting wood, so if you have them,
that's a sign of another problem..leaky plumbing, for instance...or a
poorly ventilated crawl space condensing ground water vapor onto the floor
joists. This is why houses with foundation walls now have a plastic vapor
barrier spread out on the ground in the crawl space.
They [and termites] will start in a soft spot, tunnel it out so moisture
has a channel to make the soft spot get bigger, effectively making a sponge
that grows into a bigger sponge.
If the wood is dried out, the colony dies or moves elsewhere.
"Dry rot" isn't really "dry".
Ode
At 05:30 PM 4/6/2008 -0400, you wrote:
Wayne, I have had carpenter ants come in the house every summer to get away
from the heat. They lay all over the floor in and near the air conditioning
vents and no one wants an infestation in their home even if you love
animals. Plus I'm told they eat wood.
If aspartame, borax, or diatomaceous earth can kill them, I appreciate the
info!
Is borax the cleaning product? Jess
-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Stebbins [mailto:s...@asis.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:45 PM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: CS>Repel Ants of Kill Ants, Get the Facts
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:37 -0500, Wayne Fugitt wrote:
> Morning Malcom,
>
> >>At 11:40 AM 4/6/2008, you wrote:
> >Hi, you might want to try a borax powder which is sold as an ant killer.
> >It is harmless to humans and animals.
>
> The question was to repel ants, not kill them. I continue to be amazed
> that someone ask one question and many answer another.
"...Terro ant killer..." a repellent??
>
> No one will ever kill all the ants anyway. I hope they do not.
Me neither, the ones that set up housekeeping in my wall because they
liked something about the place, they didn't ask; I don't go about
looking for "ant hills"
>
> Every one should learn the beneficial effects of ants on many things,
> including the environment.
Yes, Edward O. Wilson's writing's f'rinstance.
>
>
> Does anything think that because an insect or other critter is a problem
> for them, it is all bad ?
>
> A honey bee stings you, your immune system is on strike, or non
existent,
> and you declare war on honey bees.
Not me, you??
>
> Be careful, the tree huggers and others will line up to do battle, and I
> am not sure which side I will be on.
And I don't care; I'm a tree hugger, myself, and try to infuse a little
sanity into my confreres minds about so-called "invasive species", for
instance. It's almost never all black and white, except in print, huh?
>
> That is what is wrong with the world today, everyone trying to adapt the
> world to them, rather than the humans adapting to the world.
A very good point, and I agree!
>
> The first step to controlling ants is "Good Housekeeping". Get rid of
> everything that smells good to the ants and they might disappear.
>
> Don't call me a tree hugger, and ant lover, or an organic hater.
> Instead it is the ignorance of some of these groups ( or the people in the
> groups ) that gets me upset.
Haven't called you a thing, don't intend to.
>
> Dig up the facts before you did up the ant hills.
You too,
>
> Wayne
>
> Further, the subject line of most of these messages is a disaster and gosh
> awful.
> I could go back to the one that started it .......... but I won't.
> One day I am going to delete all my silver list archives because 98 % of
> the messages have the wrong subject, or one that is not worth ONE CENT !
Boy, THAT'll fix 'em!! <g>
Hey, take care Wayne;
"Illegitum non-tatum carborundum." the sign above my father's workbench
Malcolm
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