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 Post subject: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:16 pm 
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Walter Reeves did not endorse this idea and is on the record saying it does not work. This is his website where he states that:

http://www.walterreeves.com/insects_animals/article.phtml?cat=21&id=1031


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 Post subject: Re: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:15 pm 
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Read Howard's newsletter on this subject........and accept the fact Club Soda does NOT kill Fire ants.

http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/3125/


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 Post subject: Re: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:50 am 
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Add another ingredient. BTW, CO2 will not kill an ant colony in those [conc] as they would be evacuating already from the lack of O2 from the rains or invasion.

I do know that if we get enough people to quit eating the blue packets for iced tea, we could have the most potent version of fire ant killer around:

Here is one link

http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDeta ... B=&locale=

I have been looking into how to utilize this junk for a while it does work, and its another reason not to trust big business. Look further and you will find the people who marketed it last minuted to humans to still make a profit.

Just at tidbit:
Andrew


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 Post subject: Re: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:06 pm 
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I've herd that a box of grits,sprinkled around the mound gets rid of them.


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 Post subject: Re: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:52 pm 
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I have had good luck simply pouring boiling water into the center of the mound. It will shock some of the surrounding plants, but once the heat dissipates, the plants bounce back.


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 Post subject: Re: Fire Ants and Club Soda
PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:27 pm 
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Depends on how much Vodka u add to the soda.


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