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RE: Getting rid of ants

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From: John Cantrell
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 15:29
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In article <3588@labsline.win.net>, pat_sheaffer@labsline.win.net (PAT SHEAFFER) writes:
|> 
|> As you observed, they're coming through an opening in your house.  Most
|> insects can be diverted (or discouraged) from entering if you take some
|> time and seal up all the openings in the backs of your cupboards, at
|> the bases of your walls, backs of counters, etc. with a caulking 
|> compound.  This way they don't have easy access to your kitchen.

Let's see, we have had them enter via the electrical wiring (from behind
the faceplate covering an outlet), through cracks in the door frame, through
the door strikeplate (? the metal bracket on the door jam that holds the
door when you close it), the gas line, the windows, ... You get the picture.

It is like the little Dutch boy and the leaky dike, stop one hole only
to have them find another.

I wish you better luck than I had.
Yours,
cantrell
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From: cantrell@sparky1.aero.org (John Cantrell)
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Subject: RE: Getting rid of ants
Date: 9 Aug 1994 15:29:25 GMT
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