Re: carpenter ants, chickens

From: Roberto Verzola (rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 04:08:09 EDT


>Does anybody know of a good alternative to Terminix for keeping carpenter
>ants out of our house? We live in a woodsy area in Pa. right next to a
>river, so ants and other critters abound here. But I feel like a hypocrite
>trying to have an organic garden while I welcome Dan Dan the Terminix man

An organic farmer I know left white sugar and other antsy food (like
used coconut meat, a very common kitchen waste in the Philippines) in
strategic places in his garden. These kept the ants too busy that they
stopped bothering his seed bed and the food in his hut.

Roberto

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