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Madame TBird
Madame TBird
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Apr-1-2005 22:24

He is having to pick up & move. It will be a very long time if ever that he will be back. Where is going Does not have modern technologies. So, he won't be able to be online. You will really be missed JoJo & best of luck. I hope everything works out.

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Madame TBird
Madame TBird
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Apr-8-2005 14:42

My husband gets this stuff that the ants thinks is food. Will ask him the name & let you know what it is. Anyway, it looks like tiny little crumbs. The ants scram for it & bring it home for ffod. It kills the queen & all the ants within a day or two. The best stuff we have ever found for fire ants.

DaRu
DaRu
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Apr-8-2005 15:01

Thanks MTBird. I'm sure my boys would be thrilled to go outside without being attacked. They try to stay on the driveway because they have been bitten several times. They come running to Mom to ease their pain. I just told Texan about it MT, and he wants to know (not sure how to spell it) if it's "Diazinon", or similar? Whether it's safe or not, I will have to keep my boys on their leads, until after treatment. Oh and you're welcome sweet jojo.

DaRu
DaRu
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Apr-8-2005 15:04

It is diazanon.

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
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Apr-8-2005 19:03

DaRu,
That ant poison is called Amdro. It comes in a jug & lasts a long time. We get ours from a little Mom & Pop hardware & garden supply. Try it really works. We tried all that other stuff in the bags, granules. Nothing really got rid of the pesky ants.

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
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Apr-8-2005 19:08

Sorry almost forgot our baby got into it when she was just a few months old. It freaked me out & I called our Vet at home. Anyway he had me read off the ingredients. He told us what to do. He said that the Amdro was not harmful to a her. What happened was she was nosing around where we put it & got stung all over by the ants. he said why she swoll up was an allergic reaction to the ants not the Amdro. Her little mouth swoll up so huge she looked like a cartoon. Her lips were sticking way out. We had to put her in a cool bath & give her Benadryl. It was so sad. Anyway, he said he would have to get some of that Amdro to use around his own home. He has Boxers & they act just Boston Terriers (what we have). His gets into everything too.

DaRu
DaRu
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Apr-8-2005 20:25

Thanks a million for the tip. We'll buy some and hopefully rid of those devils..lol. I'll keep my boys on the driveway so no problem. Texan heard of Amdro but never used it. I can't wait to put some out. Those ants have invaded my plants and took over the soil. I've got to repot them all and throw the bad ant infested soil away, and add Amdro to it afterwards. I'm tired of having scars left from being bit...lol. Oh once while working in my rock garden, a spider bit me on the same spot of each thigh. I had on shorts and didn't notice or feel anyting crawling on my legs. Later both wounds got infected and began to rot. I thought I'd have to go to the ER to stop the infection, but eventually got the wounds under control. It left an indention on my left thigh, and slight scar on my right one. So, will this Amdro kill spiders and other bugs as well? I'm sure it will, but thought I'd ask. Your poor babies mouth. I could just imagen it. Another thing I want to warn people about here is putting carpet powder down and waiting to vaccumn it up. I did this a few times and didn't sweep it up right away, and not thinking, Woodrow would rub his face across the carpet, and apparently got some in his left eye. His eye swelled until it looked like it would burst. His face was also swollen. We rushed him to the hospital and they gave him a pain shot and medication to reduce the inflammation. As a result he's been seeing an eye specialist and it's damaged the nerves around his eye and left side of his face. His eye won't blink and is slightly drawn to one side now. The specialist said the nerves could eventually heal and the eye start blinking, but in the meantime, we have to put drops twice daily in his eye to deaden the pain and keep the swelling from occurring again. We've been treating his eye for nearly 8 months now and he can close it while sleeping and there's some motion. I masssage his eye and face daily which aids in his recovery. The carpet fresh is very harmful to pets.

DaRu
DaRu
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Apr-8-2005 20:32

oops, didn't mean to take up so much space again..lol.

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
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Apr-8-2005 23:29

Oh that poor baby. Prissy has to get eye drops & take a Benadryl every day for allergies. Her little eyes get so red. No, Amdro will not get rid of spiders. I will have to look & see what it was I used in my flowerbeds. Back when i could get down in them, I had the most beautiful yard in the neighborhood. That was my #1 hobby, it is so sad when I look at my beds now. I just wish i could take care of it. We did hire a yard boy to take care of weeds, trim the hedges etc. It's not the same though.
Anyway, ants take away your good soil & leave you with crap. If they have overtaken an area in your bed. Till it or hoe it. Call around to the nurseries ask where they get thier potting soil. It always comes from somewhere local that specializes in sells dirt for contracters. they also end up with really good black dirt with mulch & stuff mixed in. Get your husband to go up & load his truckbed down.
Throw it over your beds & mix it in with the crappy dirt. Go to WalMart or Dollar Store. Get a box of bone meal & a big bag of cow manure. Don't get horse it will fry your plants. Mix the meal & manure & then mix it in your dirt.
For fertilizer/plant food DO NOT buy the Miracle Grow. It will fry some of your plants. Get a jug of Schultz Bloom Plus. If you have roses I can tell you about that too. Banana peels, coffee grounds & eggshells are really good for your soil too.
The best mulch to get is Cypress mulch. It locks moisture in, doesn't float away easy & really helps with weed control.
One thing you can use for spiders etc. Is Ortho has a spray you can buy for roses in an aersol can or concentrate you put in a sprayer. I will have to see what the exact name was I used. It was a 3 in 1 product. That got rid of pests, fungicide, etc. For Aphids which no insecticide does any good on. You know the teeny little bugs that get on roses & stuff. Get Joy dishwashing detergent. Either take a big bowl full of water with some Joy or fill your sprayer with water & add the Joy

DaRu
DaRu
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Apr-9-2005 21:32

Thanks for all the information. I might add a thread to refer people to this thread who might need help. You've been a great help to me. Again thanks.

Jojo
Jojo
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Apr-9-2005 21:40

To think a conversation about me leaving ended with ant poison.

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