O/T the worlds best Ant Poison?

May 29, 2007

*Got this and thought it was interesting..no more diet soft drinks in

this house.

Carol

The worlds best Ant Poison (just ants???)

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From the June 2006 Idaho Observer: Aspartame - The World's Best Ant

Poison contributed by Jan Jensen of WELLthy Choices.

We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have

spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep

them under control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewhere that

aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison and only

changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a

lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison,

I decided to give it a try. I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener,

and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. That was about 2

years ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months.

It works better than the most deadly poisons I h ave tried. Any time

they show up again, I simply dump another package of Nutrasweet in a

corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again.

Since posting this information I have had many people tell me of their

success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else

worked. We found later that small black ants would not eat the

aspartame. It was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they

would quickly take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24

hours, usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and

sometimes it does not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species

of ants or something.

Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did

not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a

light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and

ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of

them grabbing it and taking it back into the moun d. When I checked the

mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the

mound up some, and still saw none of them.

How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the

ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct, like

stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense

of taste so they can't figure out what is eatable, or smell, so they

can't follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so

they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up

dying, just know that for many species of ants it will kill them quickly

and effectively. As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and

washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and avoid

getting it in your mouth, despite anything the labeling may indicate.

More information on this fantastic poison can be found at:

www.dorway.com <http://www.dorway.com/>

May 29, 2007

I have heard and read about this.

I dont mind the ants, the whole block we live on is one huge ants nest.

Bull ants.

A few little argentine ants come in now and then for a drink but so what.

A Bull Ant wanders across the lounge now and then it is OK, they don't ever

seem to harm us.