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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Darkroom / April 2004borax ant killer
apr204 from Lloyd Erlick, It's spring and the little red ants are trailing across my kitchen floor. The ant killing products at the store all had an ingredient in common: borax, varying from five to ten per cent. In peanut butter. The packaging carried dire warnings - peanuts are dangerous. Well, my darkroom has no borax, I'm sorry to say. I could not mix a tablepsoon of borax into a blob of peanut butter to send home to the ant queen. So I spent three bucks on three tiny little cans of peanut butter and borax. I could have splurged on the 100 ml squirt bottle of seven per cent borax in water. Just put drops where ants hang out. I suppose it had some sugar, too. Four bucks. regards, --le No more ants? >No more ants? --- Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week to suffer. --le Borates will do the trick (borax, boric acid). Do a google for boric acid insects (ants, roaches) or alike and there's a lot in the WEB. Woks for almost any insect if you make the right bait, but it takes a few days. Jorge lloydNO@NOthe-wire.com wrote in news:funq609m814iot2lpc73315o3s0dldsa8d@ 4ax.com: >>No more ants? > > --- > Just put them out yesterday, I think the poor ant colony needs a week > to suffer. > --le I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. -Lew >I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. >-Lew Yep. Works for athletes foot as well. Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com Please remove the "_" when replying via email >>I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. >>-Lew [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com --- No kidding!? The things you learn from the darkroom! Boric acid is available at the pharmacy around here, but do you think those twenty thousand mules can drag any borax north of the border?? I'm going to have to start extracting it from ant killing peanut butter. --le lloydNO@nothe-wire.com wrote: > --- > No kidding!? The things you learn from the darkroom! Boric acid is > available at the pharmacy around here, but do you think those twenty > thousand mules can drag any borax north of the border?? I'm going to > have to start extracting it from ant killing peanut butter. Eh? The local grocery store stocks it in the laundry section. Nick >lloydNO@nothe-wire.com wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Nick apr304 from Lloyd Erlick, It doesn't seem to appear on the shelves in Canada. An American friend of mine has sometimes remarked on it, on those rare occasions when we have discussed doing the laundry! I can get it from my friendly local chemical supplier, but actually have had very little use for it so far. regards, --le lloydNO@nothe-wire.com wrote: > apr304 from Lloyd Erlick, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > chemical supplier, but actually have had very little use for it so > far. It's in this part of Toronto. It wouldn't suprise me if it's on the same spot on the shelf of all Fortinos or Loblaws stores. Made in the US but standard Canadian packaging. Nick >> It doesn't seem to appear on the shelves in Canada. An American friend >> of mine has sometimes remarked on it, on those rare occasions when we [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It's in this part of Toronto. It wouldn't suprise me if it's on the same >spot on the shelf of all Fortinos or Loblaws stores. Pardon what may appear to be a silly question, but what is borax actually used for in the laundry? > Pardon what may appear to be a silly question, but what is borax > actually used for in the laundry? Laundry?? Hell if I know-) It's in some darkroom formulas so I picked some up. Nick > Pardon what may appear to be a silly question, but what is borax > actually used for in the laundry? A detergent booster. It can also be used as a general cleaner. To kill ants >Pardon what may appear to be a silly question, but what is borax >actually used for in the laundry? http://www.dialcorp.com/index.cfm?page_id=56 Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com Please remove the "_" when replying via email Andrew Price <ajprice@free.fr> wrote: >Pardon what may appear to be a silly question, but what is borax >actually used for in the laundry? Frankly, we are not sure. All in all it seems to be used as 'filler': it makes it look like you are getting a lot of laundry powder for the $$. For a rationalization of its use in detergent: http://www.borax.com/detergents/  SignatureNicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio nolindan@ix.netcom.com Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics. psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/ > Andrew Price <ajprice@free.fr> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > http://www.borax.com/detergents/ Be sure to get some borax to use for welding and brazing flux. On 4/2/2004 4:54 AM lloydNO@NOthe-wire.com spake thus: >>>I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > thousand mules can drag any borax north of the border?? I'm going to > have to start extracting it from ant killing peanut butter. Perhaps one of the chemistry geeks here can post a long, involved procedure for de-oleating boric acid from peanut butter, then extracting the borax from it. Signature... but never have I encountered a guy who could not be bothered to make his own case on his own show. - Eric Alterman on his appearance on Dennis Miller's bomb of a show on CNBC (3/17/04) >No kidding!? The things you learn from the darkroom! Yep. After spending one late summer printing session in my Nike's, I developed a different kind of itch. the pharmacist recommend soaking in Boric acid nightly and after about a week, no more problems. Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com Please remove the "_" when replying via email >>No kidding!? The things you learn from the darkroom! > > Yep. After spending one late summer printing session in my >Nike's, I developed a different kind of itch. the pharmacist recommend >soaking in Boric acid nightly [the shoes or your feet??!!...] --le and after about a week, no more >problems. > >Regards, > > John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com > Please remove the "_" when replying via email >I thought the otc bug stuff was boric acid, not borax. >-Lew --- The label states a borax concetration, then in parentheses a Boron equivalence. So I think certain insects do not like to have Boron/borates in their diet. I know the trick of putting powder boric acid within the walls, between the joists, to combat cockroaches. But I think there are new technology insect hormone based approaches for roaches (and fleas, I can state from personal experience!). --le Borax tastes like sugar. [---] >(and fleas, I >can state from personal experience!). Didn't your cat used to hang out in your old basement darkroom, before you moved? >[---] > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Didn't your cat used to hang out in your old basement darkroom, before >you moved? apr304 from Lloyd Erlick, Yes, although that should probably read 'my old cat used to hang out...' -- that cat finally died in November, five months shy of her twenty-first birthday. She spent a lot of time down there with me, usually sleeping in front of the electric heater. She left me enough hair to knit a new cat. By the way, for anyone troubled by fleas from a pet, the new technology flea controlling collars work like a charm. They use insect hormones to interfere with the ability of insect eggs to hatch. They have no odor to humans, and are (apparently) non-toxic. Agfa of all people sell the best known version. (Perhaps it's actually Bayer, which now owns Agfa again.) regards, --le mix sugar with borax and leave close to the nest >apr204 from Lloyd Erlick, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >regards, >--le On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:45:35 GMT, friend® <me.at.home@universe.org> wrote: >mix sugar with borax and leave close to the nest apr304 from Lloyd Erlick, That would certainly be the first choice. The cheapest commercial product cost three dollars. I'm sure two cents worth of borax and sugar would have done it. Maybe I paid all that extra for the Rolls Royce version, with peanut butter! Someone posted that borax tastes sweet; I suppose that explains why they were also selling a 100 ml bottle of borax dissolved in water as an ant killer. So -- if one uses borax in the laundry -- is one less likely to get bugs??? regards, --le |
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