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| Re: OT: Fluorescent lamp "starter" unit? [message #353285] |
Sun, 24 September 2017 11:06 |
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:04:10 +0000, Huge wrote:
> On 2017-09-24, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:43:44 +0000, Huge wrote:
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>>> On 2017-09-24, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
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>>>> I use boric acid as the active ingredient in an ant bait I put in the
>>>> kitchen. Works great on ants; has a higher LD50 than table salt on
>>>> mammals.
>>>
>>> I tried this for the first time this summer. It works really well.
>>> Mixed 1:10 with icing sugar, made a saturated solution in water and
>>> put a soaked cotton wool ball on the floor on a piece of plastic (*).
>>> Three or four days of ant feeding frenzy and then ... nothing. As you
>>> say, it's less toxic to human beings than table salt.
>>>
>>> (* I tried the dry powder, but they weren't that interested.)
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>> What's the best place to get the boric acid?
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> No idea about "best", but I bought mine on eBay. Make sure you get boric
> *acid*
> and not borax.
That sounds a good place. I just didn't want to get it somewhere that
gave you a small fancy packet for a great deal of money.
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