If you have enough bacon grease to fill up a coffee can I'm not sure that
fire ants should be your first concern unless they will slow you down on
your way to the coronary care unit :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
To: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>; "Brian Hollands"
<bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: July 9, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Gooing OT, Coolant disposal and ants
> I don't know about Antifreeze for Fire Ants, but as a homeowner with MANY
> Fireants, I decided to try this. I took a empty Coffe Can and dug a hole
> where I knew the ants had a trail. Put the can into the hole to the top
of
> the can so it was easily accessed by the ants, and poured bacon grease
into
> the can. when the sun came up and heated the grease the ants were doing
> swan dives into the grease to a point that my dog had smelled and seen the
> delicacies that I had placed before him and dug up the can and ate all the
> ants and licked up the grease. When I tried to duplicate the trick, I
made
> the mistake of letting the ants see me do it, and not one of them was ever
> in the new can. Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu>
> To: Brian Hollands <bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com>
> Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:00 PM
> Subject: Gooing OT, Coolant disposal and ants
>
>
> >> I'll do a controlled test on the ants and report back my findings...
> >
> >Didn't Alan Bent in Australia try a 'controlled test' involving some
> petrol? :-)
> >
> >-- John
> > John F Sandhoff sandhoff@csus.edu Sacramento, CA
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