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[compost_tea] Re: arthropods



The following is a prior post regarding fire ants. I have no personal 
experience with fire ants other than the bite on vacation!

bob




   Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:57:17 -0500
   From: "John Dunbar" <jdunbar@dunbarco.com>
Subject: RE: New Boy

Malcolm Beck (Texas's original organic compost guru) says that 
fireants
can't stand microbial activity (compost), orange oil (a now expensive
organic solvent), cow manure liquids, molasses, seaweed extract, fish
emulsion, and soap.  He recommends you drench the mounds with 
solutions
involving these organic materials.  These can also be sprayed on 
squash bugs
and leaf footed bugs to ill effect.  I would assume you'd drop the 
orange
oil and soap as being too harsh for your soils and use the remaining 
items
to also help amend the soil.  My understanding is that the orange oil 
and
soap dissolve the ant's skin/skeleton, and the microbes start to 
digest
anything tasty.  This should be true with most insects.



--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, George and Paulette Mouchet 
<geomouchet@Q...> wrote:
> How do fire ants, both imported and domestic, fit into the soil 
biology scheme?
> 
> Is there some soil biology way to get rid of them?
> 
> Paulette




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