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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Year end review (annamwal@interia.pl)
2. Re: Year end review (David Pilling)
3. gasoline and gardening (Jane Sargent)
4. Re: gasoline and gardening and ants (Linda Foulis)
5. Re: gasoline and gardening (Diane Whitehead)
6. Bulbs Ants & the Eco system (Steven Hart)
7. The Bulb Newsletter (David Pilling)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:51:23 +0100
From: <annamwal@interia.pl>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Year end review
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Hi Arnold,
Thanks for a great job! I have found some faults in the scanned Bulb
Newsletters (number.page):
20.11
21.7, 11
22.3, 7, 9
24.7
25.3, 5
And the number 28 is lacking (two times the no 29).
Greetings, Marek (Poland)

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...We have received permission from bulb guru Brian Mathew to have all of
his 36 The Bulb Newsletter scanned and placed on our PBS web page.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:03:15 +0000
From: David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Year end review
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Hi,

Apologies for the problems. I'll get them fixed for tomorrow.

If anyone is wondering the password for the page is

bulbmania

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David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:28:44 -0500
From: Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com>
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Subject: [pbs] gasoline and gardening
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Oh, I never considered actually using the gasoline.

Some of the chemicals that have been suggested to me are probably as
dangerous. I don?t want the back garden to be a new Love Canal. The
best success Ive had against the ants is finding some plants they don?t
consider very tasty.

Perhaps it is time to import a giant anteater. The ones we have on the
Yucatan Peninsula are small and ineffective. There is a fluffy little
one that lives in trees.

Jane

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:17:43 -0700
From: Linda Foulis <lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] gasoline and gardening and ants
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Gas is very effective, but I wouldn't use it on a regular basis and of course care must be taken.
What I've found effective and safe is diatomaceous earth. I make a ring of it around the house 3-4 times per summer. It has worked better than anything else especially chemicals. It is sold in 25 kg bags at my ag store.
Also effective on isolated ant hills is a couple buckets of water with a bit of dish soap mixed in. The ants drown. It was explained to me that the soap bursts the air bubble around the ant, therefore drowning it. I live on an ant hill....... A very large anthill.
Not sure if it will work on non-Alberta ants?

Linda M Foulis
Beautiful Blooms
http://www.beautifulblooms.ab.ca/

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:12:32 -0800
From: Diane Whitehead <ldiane.whitehead@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] gasoline and gardening
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Maybe Australia would like them.

I can't remember exactly where, but probably Western Australia. There were signs along the sidewalks exhorting one not to step on any ants, as they were considered essential components of the ecosystem.

Diane Whitehead
Victoria B.C. Canada who places borax, sugar and water in wee dishes when carpenter ants invade my house. They stand around the rim, slurping happily, like elephants around a waterhole.

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:36 +1000
From: Steven Hart <hartsentwine.australia@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [pbs] Bulbs Ants & the Eco system
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Yes well I'd love a cute American fluffy ant eater in my trees lol but we have spiny little egg laying echidnas to feed so it would never work lol
Diane is right on the ball, ants do play extremely critical rolls in the Eco system, & poorly selected distraction of the wrong ones can be a crises, perhaps equal to the now concerning loss of bees world wide. Different ants play different rolls in the environment from pollination seed dispersion to clean up duties.
But which ants & where ?
In recant years vicious Brazilian Fire Ants slipped into Australia past the watchful eyes of quarantine & have established populations around the Brisbane & Ipswich area. These are being arial baited from helicopters & manual means.
Here in my unusual mountain eucalyptus & dry rainforest environment I have many types of ants & some are highly strung insect predictors, large powerful jumping ants & giant bull dog ants an inch long with stings so powerful they have made me wet myself after a bad sting, attack insects on my flower bulbs occasionally although they live down in the rainforest & protect their homes viciously if provoked. That's a dangerous game, they can jump inches at a time & a dozen stings will send your dog or maybe you into deep shock from excruciating pain.
They are fine if visiting the garden & only attack if threatened.
I have large slow moving honey ants with giant heads who never sting at all & they work at night time snooping about the garden fir who knows what. There is many other species here & all play an important roll. One of the great risks of blanket baiting is the potential loss of native species & this can upset the Eco system. Often the loss of these native forest ants who defend their territory, can lead to more harmful introduced specials moving in. I find in city home gardens & even here sometimes, some of these take over specials cultivate & harvest mealy bug or aphids on my bulbs or other plants.
I only kill ants if they are introduced species or black house ants which grow mealy bug quite regularly, these are a problem with my yam collection & they can cover arial tubers, or harvested stored yams with mealy bug. I tend not to use baits due to the chance of loosing good ants by mistake, so my main method is to spray nest entrances with a good dose of surface spray, I watch carefully & if they re root to a secondary entrance I will spray them until they have no escape roots left & I usually see the end if that nest. In these times good ants usually establish back to the area & reduce the invasive species returning.

Steven Hart
Sunny Queensland Australia

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:47:18 +0000
From: David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [pbs] The Bulb Newsletter
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Hi,

The complete set of the Bulb Newsletter is available from:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

you will need a password which is:

bulbmania

Arnold announced this a couple of days ago, and people spotted errors
which I have fixed.

Thanks to them.

Telling us about errors is a contribution.

--
David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/

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