Comments on: Greening Your Spring Garden: Those Pesky Pests http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/05/20/greening-your-spring-garden-those-pesky-pests/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tiffany @ NOH http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/05/20/greening-your-spring-garden-those-pesky-pests/comment-page-1/#comment-17640 Tiffany @ NOH Wed, 27 May 2009 08:08:46 +0000 http://ecolocalizer.com/?p=1453#comment-17640 Ants don't seem to be affected by Neem oil...but you can sprinkle semolina flour (like the stuff you use for making pasta) or their mounds and they will die after ingesting it. If you're lucky they'll even take it back to their queen and kill her too. Cornmeal/corn flour is toxic to slugs so I leave an open jar laid on its side near plants they love, they crawl in to eat it, then crawl away to die. Thanks for linking to my blog & hope to have lots more to share with you soon ;) Ants don’t seem to be affected by Neem oil…but you can sprinkle semolina flour (like the stuff you use for making pasta) or their mounds and they will die after ingesting it. If you’re lucky they’ll even take it back to their queen and kill her too. Cornmeal/corn flour is toxic to slugs so I leave an open jar laid on its side near plants they love, they crawl in to eat it, then crawl away to die.

Thanks for linking to my blog & hope to have lots more to share with you soon ;)

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