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Subject: Re: Red Ant Pests
From: "Carroll Morgan" <carroll@cmorgan.net>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 01 03:04:23
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Dave,

Since you asked...you might want to check out
http://www.instant-kill.com/html/instant_kill_testimonials.html for what
some folks think about InstAnt KILL. I forget how many times the pest
control guy said "amazing". Totally green, no poisons and kills a mound
within a couple of minutes.

--

Carroll Morgan
BIO-TRAX, Inc. "Home of InstAnt KILL, the fire ant elimination system"
1-866-9-Fire Ant (toll-free) [1-866-934-7326]
Asheville, NC
http://www.InstAnt-KILL.com/
mailto:cmorgan@bio-trax.com

"Dave" wrote in message
news:MOD$010707.1403@rec.gardens.ecosystems...
>
> My wife has an herb garden here in Wyoming. We have always had ants (Red
> ants with a black butt) but this year they seem way over populated. We have
> cottonless cottonwood trees near the garden which have had aphids, and were
> told the ants are controlling the aphids.
>
> We DO NOT use herbacides and pesticides at all in the yard, not even weed
> killer on our lawn fertilizations. (She harvests the dandylions :) )
>
> Does anyone know a way we can naturally control the ant population (they are
> biting the heck out of her in the herb garden)? We realize controlling the
> ants may imbalance another area of the ecosystem. We don't want to do that
> if the high ant population is natural, and helpful, we'll just live with it,
> but perhaps we have done something unknowingly that has allowed the ants too
> much and could try and balance that back to more normal numbers.
>
> This year I have seen many aphids on nearby sagebrush but not much on the
> cottonwood trees. The ant nest seems to be at the base of one particular
> tree but they are also all over the sage brush mentioned, and throughout the
> herbgarden.
>
> Many or the herbs have little bites and on the underside of those leaves,
> some brown spots. I don't see and aphids though on the herbs.
>
> The only control she has found is to water the garden down good and the ants
> run, then she can tend it for a period.
>
> Thanks for any responses.
>
> Dave
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