From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat Dec 14 1996 - 14:57:37 MST
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 bill@iglobal.net wrote:
> > From: romana@glamazon.com (Romana Machado)
> > rains. I read, I forget where, that ants will not cross a line of flour. I
> > haven't tested that.
Try sodium borate (or boronic acid, H_3BO_3), ants (nor 'roaches) don't like
that. Take care of small kids, though, as it is _not_ candy. Still, a
lot better than organic insecticides, which are uniformly volatile and
neurotoxic for mammals (that means you).
> I don't know about that, but I do know that slugs won't cross a line
> of salt. Salt does terrible things to them.
That terrible thing is called osmosis. Water wanders through a semipermeable
membrane (skin of the slug) into an electrolyte of a higher concentration
(salt dissolved in slug's excreted slime). If this goes on for some time,
the poor beast is dead + + +
Drowning slugs in traps filled with beer is another insiduous technique
of antibiological garden warfare.
ciao,
'gene
> ---
>
> Peace,
> William Kitchen
>
> bill@iglobal.net
>
> The future is ours to create.
>
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