ants and DE, was Re: whipped cream recipe?

[Guest guest]

> ---->Margaret, thanks for sharing your experience on this. do

you use the

> *edible* diatamaecous earth or the kind made for gardens?

i've heard of cats

> getting lung damage from the garden kind, i believe, as the tiny

sharp

> particles were inhaled.

Here's some info about the use of DE around animals:

http://www.showpoultry.com/DE/intro.html

Have you tried boric acid powder for the ants? If you put a line of

the powder across their path, they walk through it and it sticks to

their feet, so they lick it off and then it kills them. It's not

dangerous to pets or humans, so I've been told. You used to be

able to buy it in health food stores in a vitamin-sized bottle.

Aubin

[Guest guest]

Quoting aubinparrish <aubinparrish@...>:

> Have you tried boric acid powder for the ants? If you put a line of

> the powder across their path, they walk through it and it sticks to

> their feet, so they lick it off and then it kills them.

Ants have tongues?

--

Berg

bberg@...

[Guest guest]

>>>Ants have tongues?

---------->apparently.

" The hypopharynx is the ant's tongue, and acts very much as ours does. "

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:1WpgznGwWMAC:jlibsch.web.wesleyan.edu/A

nt/Morphology/Head.html+ant+tongue & hl=en & ie=UTF-8

(except you won't find *this* human tongue licking up boric acid

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