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To: fella


Have you read that there is anything in the works that may stop these ants??

They are destroying so much of our wildlife.

Have they spread all over Texas by now or what? It seems the last I read, they hadn't reached central Texas yet.




58 posted on 02/16/2014 1:16:50 PM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: patriot08
A natural and safe fire ant killer.

Or you can go to a good feed store and buy a 50 pound sack of D E and Phyrethrum Powder and mix your own for a huge cost savings. Just don't go around throwing it around willy nilly or you'll wipe-out all your good bugs just treat the fire ant mounds.

D E is kind of mechanical so bugs can't get immune to it. I mix a small amount of food grade (not the swimming pool stuff) with animal feed for 3 days in a row a month during the warm months to prevent worms. A 1/8 teaspoon per cat, up that scale for dogs based on weight and a small handful for 4 middle sized goats, not sure about Phyrethrum but I don't think the bugs get immune to it either, just read the labels and follow instructions.

71 posted on 02/16/2014 7:07:59 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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