[Shop-talk] OT hep with ants PLEASE

[Tim]

I wonder if the CofW works by expanding in their stomach when the eat it 
and then "explodes" them? Kind of like when you feed an alka selzer to a 
sea gull......

I am pretty sure someone once suggested non-instant grits to me. 
Probably works on the same "principle".


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Shannah Miller wrote:

> BBQ at Tim's house!
>
> OK, I'll come clean: I suggested the Cream of Wheat because it has
> actually worked for me.  I have no idea what the mechanism is, but
> pouring a box of dry Cream of Wheat on an anthill was amazingly
> effective.  I did one application, and it reduced the number of ants 
> by
> about 90%.  I can only imagine what more than one application would
> do.
>
> Shannah