I always get a smile on my face from PBS conversations! Worth the membership fee! Your talk of ant antics make me think our AZ Desert critters less formidable. Tucson bulb novice: Nancy Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16, 2016, at 10:39 AM, pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote: > > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > 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) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > Message-ID: <7E1D0DB52C4E45168D6007E768C0FAE6@MarekKomputer> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; > reply-type=original > > 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) > > > -----Oryginalna wiadomo??----- > From: arnold140@verizon.net > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:47 PM > ...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. > ... > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: <a71dde26-e9ce-41fa-01b5-fa01fe6eb5dd@davidpilling.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi, > >> On 13/12/2016 16:51, annamwal@interia.pl wrote: >> Thanks for a great job! I have found some faults in the scanned Bulb >> Newsletters (number.page): > > Apologies for the problems. I'll get them fixed for tomorrow. > > If anyone is wondering the password for the page is > > bulbmania > > > -- > David Pilling > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:28:44 -0500 > From: Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: [pbs] gasoline and gardening > Message-ID: <582f737f-912b-31de-3fee-5df9f20b1c47@deskhenge.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: > <07D17EBE-F9D7-428D-9808-26AD631D73D3@beautifulblooms.ab.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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/ > >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: <4EAE105F-C81E-4143-8AB4-B2523090DFEF@islandnet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >> On 2016-12-13, at 3:28 PM, Jane Sargent wrote: >> >> Perhaps it is time to import a giant anteater. > > > 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. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: <2F55AE38-A881-4016-9B8E-43116C29155A@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 > >>> On 14 Dec 2016, at 11:12 am, Diane Whitehead <ldiane.whitehead@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2016-12-13, at 3:28 PM, Jane Sargent wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps it is time to import a giant anteater. >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: <48051cd6-9ec4-f15d-bca8-abfc34ef713e@davidpilling.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > 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/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > ------------------------------ > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 167, Issue 6 > ***********************************