Hello everyone,
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?
Gayle

It's possible. Read the ingredients to determine what might be
harmful. Boric acid is safe, although I'm not sure if that's too good
for the plant. We have interesting ant lions in the rose garden that
constantly trap ants.

On 20 Mar 2005 19:00:02 -0800, "gnb" wrote:

Hello everyone,
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?
Gayle

On 20 Mar 2005 19:00:02 -0800, "gnb" wrote:

Hello everyone,
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?
Gayle

My favorite ant control is a mixture of Boraxo and sugar approximately
50/50. The mixture is not critical. The ants cannot tell the
difference between the borax and the sugar and take both back to the
colony. End of ant problem.

This remedy is completely safe but must be replaced after every rain.

John

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says...
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?


You need to do research and see if the product is systemic and would be
taken up by the plant. The label of the product will tell you if it can
be used near edibles.
--
Lar

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In article ,
says...
It's possible. Read the ingredients to determine what might be
harmful. Boric acid is safe, although I'm not sure if that's too good
for the plant. We have interesting ant lions in the rose garden that
constantly trap ants.


Boric acid will be more toxic than other products used...if you will be
sprinkling it about, it is being used at 98%-100% full strength where
any of the other bought products will probably be used at a fraction of
a percent active ingredient. And like you mentioned it will kill
plants.
--
Lar

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In article . com,
says...
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an
anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?


You need to do research and see if the product is systemic and would be
taken up by the plant. The label of the product will tell you if it can
be used near edibles.
--
Lar

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Even if it says something like "Safe to use near edibles, but wait X amount
of days before eating....", it has never, and will never actually be tested
on humans. So, you know......it's a free country, and we're allowed to
believe whatever fairy tales are convenient.

Doug Kanter wrote:
snip

Even if it says something like "Safe to use near edibles, but wait X
amount
of days before eating....", it has never, and will never actually be
tested
on humans. So, you know......it's a free country, and we're allowed
to
believe whatever fairy tales are convenient.

Thank you, everyone, for your replies - even if it was simply to say ,
"duh". I thought it might be a duh kind of question, but since I tend
to be overly cautious I thought it might just be one more of those
things that I worry needlessly about, so I asked.

I think I'll just stomp on the mound every day and hope they move on.
Stinkin' fire ants anyway.. I hate 'em!
Gayle

Try some grits... you know the cheap bag of grits from the
grocery store. Spread half a cup near the ant mound. It's
cheap, and it seemed to work for me last summer. It's
not going to harm anything and I'd really appreciate knowing
if it really works for other types of ants.

I placed it in an area with some tiny red ... uhmm fire ants,
as well as an area where some big red tree ants were eating
away on a dead stump. Within a day or maybe two I didn't
see the ants anymore.

--
Jim Carlock
Please post replies to newsgroup.

"gnb" wrote:

Doug Kanter wrote:
snip

Even if it says something like "Safe to use near edibles, but wait
X amount of days before eating....", it has never, and will never
actually be tested on humans. So, you know......it's a free country,
and we're allowed to believe whatever fairy tales are convenient.

Thank you, everyone, for your replies - even if it was simply to say ,
"duh". I thought it might be a duh kind of question, but since I tend
to be overly cautious I thought it might just be one more of those
things that I worry needlessly about, so I asked.

I think I'll just stomp on the mound every day and hope they move on.
Stinkin' fire ants anyway.. I hate 'em!
Gayle

On 21 Mar 2005 08:20:56 -0800, "gnb" wrote:

I think I'll just stomp on the mound every day and hope they move on.
Stinkin' fire ants anyway.. I hate 'em!

Instead of stomping you can also move them by flooding them with the
water hose a few times. Though with fire ants whether it is with
water, feet, or irritating them with grits, when they disperse from
the mound they are at, they may bud into several new
colonies....another option may be to use Award or Logic which is a
growth regulator...spread it all over the yard except the garden (it
may even be labeled for veggie use, can't recall) it will help new
colonies from getting established for up to 6 months.



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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:17:20 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Even if it says something like "Safe to use near edibles, but wait X amount
of days before eating....", it has never, and will never actually be tested
on humans. So, you know......it's a free country, and we're allowed to
believe whatever fairy tales are convenient.

Actually there have been numbers of "Human testing" submitted to the
EPA for a number of products..the EpA chooses not to use it for
ethical reasons due to it being done for monetary gain.



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Very likely.

Your blueberries may not only be deadly to aunts but also to uncles and any
other family relative or friends that unknowingly eat them!!!!

Find out all about the toxicity of any insecticide before using it.


"gnb" wrote in message
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Hello everyone,
If I put fire-ant poison on an anthill at the base of my blueberry
bush, or near the roots of my strawberries or veggies should an anthill
pop up there also, can the roots take up some of the chemical,
ultimately winding up in the edible portions of the plant?
Gayle

"Lar" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:17:20 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Even if it says something like "Safe to use near edibles, but wait X
amount
of days before eating....", it has never, and will never actually be
tested
on humans. So, you know......it's a free country, and we're allowed
to
believe whatever fairy tales are convenient.

Actually there have been numbers of "Human testing" submitted to the
EPA for a number of products..the EpA chooses not to use it for
ethical reasons due to it being done for monetary gain.

It's a safe bet the studies were never done by, or funded by anyone except
the manufacturers who stood to profit from the studies. Therefore, they are
invalid.

I think I'll just stomp on the mound every day and hope they move
on.
Stinkin' fire ants anyway.. I hate 'em!

Since your reasons for getting rid of ants are such sane and rational
ones............................

Better yet, fight fire with fire!!!!

Napalm the whole freaking yard!!!!


"Lar" wrote in message
...
On 21 Mar 2005 08:20:56 -0800, "gnb" wrote:

I think I'll just stomp on the mound every day and hope they move
on.
Stinkin' fire ants anyway.. I hate 'em!

Instead of stomping you can also move them by flooding them with the
water hose a few times. Though with fire ants whether it is with
water, feet, or irritating them with grits, when they disperse from
the mound they are at, they may bud into several new
colonies....another option may be to use Award or Logic which is a
growth regulator...spread it all over the yard except the garden (it
may even be labeled for veggie use, can't recall) it will help new
colonies from getting established for up to 6 months.



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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:10:50 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

What the hell? Why does it work???

You can cause fire ants and probably most other ants to up and move
when the nesting area is disturbed. Be it with a shovel or something
from the kitchen pantry. Most I hear about having success say it takes
just a couple of days for them to be gone when in fact due to the fire
ants biology it would take two weeks or more for activity in a nest to
cease if it in fact caused death to the insect.

http://fireant.tamu.edu/research/arr...htm#97-01,%204


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In article ,
says...
It's a safe bet the studies were never done by, or funded by anyone except
the manufacturers who stood to profit from the studies. Therefore, they are
invalid.

Hate to do it, but it looks like it will be two "Duhs" in one
thread...who else would think of doing such research other than to save
their profits.

--
Lar

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