Comments on: Non-toxic ant stewardship and the laziness of poison. http://www.veganreader.com/2008/05/07/non-toxic-ant-stewardship-and-the-laziness-of-poison/ Thoughtful Reading For A Compassionate Planet Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:58:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: oneawesomeguy http://www.veganreader.com/2008/05/07/non-toxic-ant-stewardship-and-the-laziness-of-poison/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 oneawesomeguy Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:32:50 +0000 http://www.veganreader.com/?p=106#comment-1130 Thanks for this nice description. I believe we should not harm any living creature and have been looking for a solution to solve me of my ant problem. I believe I have both oil ants and sugar ants. I live in Florida, USA. Thanks for this nice description. I believe we should not harm any living creature and have been looking for a solution to solve me of my ant problem. I believe I have both oil ants and sugar ants. I live in Florida, USA.

]]> By: admin http://www.veganreader.com/2008/05/07/non-toxic-ant-stewardship-and-the-laziness-of-poison/comment-page-1/#comment-812 admin Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:33:51 +0000 http://www.veganreader.com/?p=106#comment-812 Hey Maxina, That's a great story, and it just shows how our skills as observers of the world in which we live can be used to the benefit of all. By watching what the ants are doing and determining what they want, we can be helpers on the planet rather than bumbling destroyers. Very, very cool that you have passed these values onto their children. I've trained everyone I love to take out spiders in a glass when they find them in the house. Just take them out to the garden. Except for the little Daddy Longlegs. We keep those for good luck! Mim Hey Maxina,
That’s a great story, and it just shows how our skills as observers of the world in which we live can be used to the benefit of all. By watching what the ants are doing and determining what they want, we can be helpers on the planet rather than bumbling destroyers.

Very, very cool that you have passed these values onto their children. I’ve trained everyone I love to take out spiders in a glass when they find them in the house. Just take them out to the garden. Except for the little Daddy Longlegs. We keep those for good luck!

Mim

]]> By: Maxina Ventura http://www.veganreader.com/2008/05/07/non-toxic-ant-stewardship-and-the-laziness-of-poison/comment-page-1/#comment-811 Maxina Ventura Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:19:54 +0000 http://www.veganreader.com/?p=106#comment-811 Hey, Mim, what a wonderful description of what one can do. I have one addition. I was always amazed at the oil ants coming into our Carneros place, but I made a connection many, many years ago when I realized that my compost bucket was right up against the building and they were going from it straight up the wall to our window. What a stream. When I realized they wanted oil and apparently protein, too, I would bait the compost bucket with what they liked and simply moved it a foot away from the house. Voila! They were happy, I was happy. No more cast iron skillets covered in those tiny ants by the thousands. The change took a couple days to sink in. Back out they went. Over the years with my kids we've always done the thing of tracking their entry points, spraying a dishsoap and mint spray around both sides of it to leave their pathway so they go back out from whence they came and find that it takes a couple days for them to get the message to all their buddies, but it always works. Once their all out, I spray down the entry point. But, as I tell the kids, they come in when it's wet because they want some relief, and they come in when it's hot for the same reason. Like Miguel Altieri pointing out that we all have to eat, even the LBAM. Hey, Mim, what a wonderful description of what one can do. I have one addition. I was always amazed at the oil ants coming into our Carneros place, but I made a connection many, many years ago when I realized that my compost bucket was right up against the building and they were going from it straight up the wall to our window. What a stream. When I realized they wanted oil and apparently protein, too, I would bait the compost bucket with what they liked and simply moved it a foot away from the house. Voila! They were happy, I was happy. No more cast iron skillets covered in those tiny ants by the thousands. The change took a couple days to sink in. Back out they went.

Over the years with my kids we’ve always done the thing of tracking their entry points, spraying a dishsoap and mint spray around both sides of it to leave their pathway so they go back out from whence they came and find that it takes a couple days for them to get the message to all their buddies, but it always works. Once their all out, I spray down the entry point. But, as I tell the kids, they come in when it’s wet because they want some relief, and they come in when it’s hot for the same reason. Like Miguel Altieri pointing out that we all have to eat, even the LBAM.

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