Re: S. alata and fire ants...

From: Carl Strohmenger (HSC) (cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 08 1998 - 03:06:39 PDT


Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 06:06:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Carl Strohmenger (HSC)" <cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2278$foo@default>
Subject: Re: S. alata and fire ants...

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Paul Ulrich wrote:

> I have a S. alata that I just put in my new bog garden here in middle
> GA about a month ago. It is growing quite well but I noticed that fire
> ants had cut a hole in one of the pitchers and were going in and
> out... Any ideas?
> Is there any way for me to kill the ants in my bog without damage to
> the little ecosystem that I have set up?

        Try scatterring some granules of Amdro(c) or Spectracide(c) fire
ant killer around the base of the plant. That has worked for me. However,
do not put down a great amount - only enough for the ants to consume in a
day or so.

- Carl



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