Dad was right....

[alfreda89]

All those supplements and fresh food are gonna kill me someday.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/18/deadly-spider-at-gro.html

"A Brazilian wandering spider, the most venomous spider in the world, was scurrying around a Whole Foods Market in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An employee caught the spider in the produce section and the store called the University of Tulsa."

(It travels by bananas....ARGH!!!)

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this complex has ants -- teeny, tiny ones that want the boys' crunchies. About to mop floor with Simple Green. I suspect the green boric acid stuff might interest them. I've been doing an anti-ant barrier, but the lure is so strong an inch barrier -- a two inch barrier -- upsets but does not deter them.

These guys like grease, I would think. There's rice in the food, too, which is sweet to them. Decisions, decisions. They're hitting the raid solid baits, but no slow-down in ants yet.

cat food in dishes

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

that are themselves set inside larger (soup?) bowls that have a bit of water, making a water moat around each bowl of kibble?

Re: cat food in dishes

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Might work. That is done to get cockroaches -- float some powdered Swiss Miss in a pie plate inside a larger pan filled with water. Mix plaster of Paris dry into the hot chocolate mix. Cockroaches will swim to get the stuff, and usually die before they return to the nest -- thus allowing you to dispose of the bodies before babies hatch out. The water makes the stuff go solid in their bodies.