Ants in Pots

Ants in Pots
Tim Eck (Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:45:00 PDT)

I think I read that limonene dissolves or penetrates chitin which arthropods
and mushrooms are made of. This makes it vastly safer for cats than the
pyrethroids which are nerve agents. Cats have poorly myelinated nerve
axons, making them especially susceptible to nerve toxins (and bugs have no
myelin if I recall correctly). I spray limonene all around the cat dishes
to kill ants but it does not persist long due to high vapor pressure.

Tim

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From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net] On Behalf Of
Lesley Richardson
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 5:41 PM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] Ants in Pots

Look up limonene, aka orange oil. Don't know what it would to do plants,

but

it certainly caused the carpenter ants nest to disappear.
Lesley

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:36 PM, John Wickham <jwickham@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

Any suggestions for ant control in pots?

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:42 PM, Hansen Nursery <
robin@hansennursery.com> wrote:

Dennis brings up an interesting point (I've had problems with ants
farming mealies and scale.) that I learned from a pest control
person. Ants farm aphids and other insect-type creatures. I was
having a terrible problem with ants around and under the house and was
told the ugly 20-foot laurel hedge in my front yard (I had just moved
in.) was a major hiding out place for them. There were some 150 feet
of hedge in fact so it was a major undertaking given the bushes were
20-25 feet tall. It was worth all the hard work!

I removed almost all the laurel hedges within the first year and have
not had problems since.

Robin
Hansen Nursery
robin@hansennursery.com

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