Re: Do Anteaters Make Good Pets?


"Oren" <Oren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:21:37 -0700, "Ulysses"
<therealulysses@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Using what I had on hand I sprinkled some diatomaceous earth on some
mounds
and it at least seems to annoy them. But it supposedly takes a lot of
time
before any results are noticed and food grade DE was recommended as
opposed
to swimming pool grade so it might not work at all

I only know/read limited differences in pool and food grade DE.

Pool grade DE is heated during processing. The heat causes the sharp
microscopic fossil edges to round off. Rubbed between thumb and
fingers, you can feel the smoothness.

Food grad DE is not heated at processing, thereby, the fossil edges
stay sharp. Rubbed together it would feel gritty.

As to the original bait question. Stick out some "test dummy" baits.
When the ants eat one bait over another. Mix in the BA.


Some of the ants are either covering up the DE or taking it into their
mounds--can't tell for sure but on one mound I saw them hauling out a dead
body (ant). Not very conclusive. The ant activity seems about the same
with the swimming pool DE on most mounds and on other mounds there are no
ants in sight but the DE is no longer visible.

The mounds that I sprinkled Sevin Dust 5% on last night have NO ant
activity. I'm thinking since it does not specify to use it for ants then
nobody has been using it on ants and they are not yet immune to it. I'm
kinda wary about using the stuff and I'm only planning in using it close to
the house. I'm going to try the BA mixed with whatever they like to eat.
Dead bugs sound good but the stinkbugs might fight them for it.

This is another story but I've been having a lot of mice under my house
(manufactured home). Lately, somehow, the little mice have been managing to
get caught in a big rat trap and drag it several feet! I finally figured
out how. When I opened the hatch/access to under the house this morning
there was a snake staring me right in the face. It's a red snake with a
black head (some kind of king snake maybe) and he's been hanging around for
a few weeks and I've been trying to get him to go under the house and it
looks like he finally did. So now, instead of traps, I just sprinkled a
little dry dog food down there so all the snake has to do is to wait for the
mice to eat. A lot easier than trying to get them out of the traps. There
was a gopher snake hanging around a month or so ago but he didn't want to go
down there. A little while ago we heard some racket in the heating ducts so
maybe the snake got one!


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