World's best ant poison

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*The World's Best Ant Poison*

Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison

.... contributed by Jan Jensen of WELL thy Choices

Nutrasweet was actually developed as an ant poison and only changed to being

considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could

be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a

try. I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner

of each of our bathrooms. That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen any

carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than the most

deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I simply dump

another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a year

or so again. Since posting this information I have had many people tell me

of their success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else

worked.

We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was

determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly take it

back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours, usually. I have

found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does not. Not sure

why, may be slightly different species of ants or something.

Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did not

work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light rain.

It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and ground, but not

enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing it and

taking it back into the mound.

When I checked the mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I

even dug the mound up some, and still saw none of them.

How it works:

Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the ants by interfering

with their nervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or

something more subtle, like killing their sense of taste so they can't

figure out what is edible, or smell, so they can't follow their trails, or

mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other.

Not sure what causes them to end up dying; just know that for many species

of ants, it will kill them quickly and effectively.

As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas

that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth,

despite anything the labeling may indicate. I suspect it will work for other

insects such as yellow jackets as well, but have not tested that yet.

More information on this fantastic poison can be found

at: <http://www.dorway.com>