[Pil-pc-oceania] Ant infestation

[Graeme George]

I've also used pennyroyal oil or plants at the point where the ants  
have been coming onto kitchen benches. Cleaning up the food food  
scraps and overripe fruit that attract them in also helps. Recently I  
had a major nesting episode in my linen press, under piles of sheets  
and towels. I lifted all these to disturb them, spread them out a bit  
and left the doors open to expose the ants and their eggs to the light  
- all relocated somewhere else in 2 days, no nasties.

Graeme

On 17/03/2008, at 10:08 AM, Dan Rossi wrote:

>
> On 16/03/2008, at 9:38 PM, permaculture at apollobay.org.au wrote:
>
>> i had an ant infestation the other day (about the same time this  
>> topic was
>> first posted).
>> it was a huge infestation... they weren't there in the morning and  
>> when i
>> came back from doing market they were thick in a line right across my
>> kitchen floor... (and i didn't spill anything... so it's quite  
>> perplexing)
>> i didn't have any borax (it's not in Apollo Bay's stupermarkets or  
>> hardware
>> stores), neither did i have peppermint oil
>
> Interesting, I was going to mention peppermint oil as ants can't  
> tolerate that for some reason, so I usually put it around door posts  
> to prevent them coming inside for the honey in the cupboard. I  
> wonder if simply putting up peppermint plants works ?
>
>
>> or pyrethrem... so i scattered
>> fresh tansy
>
> Ive been reading that tansy, wormwood and others work wonders as  
> deterrents, still lots to learn in the guild planting department :)
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