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Hairy Ant Invasion
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Insects will rule the world when we are all gone.
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Nothing a little diet Coke won't cure. I use it on Fire Ant mounds and Hairy Ant mounds - a can will kill them in 24 hours and they won't come back for several months. Cheaper than anything you can get at Hone Depot or Lowes!
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Hairy aunts is a scary thought.
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Just had a special on them on Fox. Seems that they came from S. America on a ship and now we cannot get rid of them...
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I have been told two different reasons:
1) The worker ants take the liquid to the queen and feed her but it has zero caloric value so she straves to death. The more the feed her the hungrier she gets. 2) The artificial sweetner is toxic to the nervous systems. On a human scale it is benign bu when you are 100X smaller then the toxicity is much greater even though the amount injected is still small. I also think it may have something to do with the physiology of the ant being different than humans. Either way it is a very effective ant killer.
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Insects have different nervous systems than humans...that's why insecticides work.
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You guys cannot use this but it sure helps here in the Desert. We have scorpions from time to time in most areas out here. They can hurt, or even kill so its not to be messed with. I have gotten tagged one time and it was not fun, being pretty well laid up for 24 hours. Friend of mine had one crawl in his pants while they were on the floor at a lady friends house. He put them on and went on his way but 10 minutes later when it crawled out from between the pants pocket and started tagging him, life was not good. He got hit 11 times as he yanked his pants down, screaming and yelling all the way. Finally had to take him to the hospital as he was having problems breathing... In the old days would kill them with something like a fly-swatter but found a better way. "Spray brake cleaner," the kind you use on brake rotors and so on is a very good tool in the garage. Its an even more useful tool in the house. Scorpions glow at night when you shine a UV flashlight on them, standing out like a sore thumb. Spray them with a bit of brake cleaner and they flop around for a second or two, then the sting themselves 2-3 times and die within 5 minutes. Considering that they are fast little buggers, its nice to dispatch them from 5-10 feet away before they can hide and get you later.
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Tell us in detail how, steps, or you just leave the coke out for them to eat freely? I have been spending $$ on lot of products from Home Depot and they are still around.
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Joe, Ive been using brake cleaner for many, many years to kill all types of insects. especially Wasps... One small hit and they die almost instantly..
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