amyola@homxa.UUCP (A.CASADEVALL) (06/26/85)
Help! I don't have red ants or black ants, but I have small brown ants living in my window boxes (on the porch railings) and my other large planters. None are directly on the ground. How can I get rid of the ants without damaging my flowers - geraniums and impatiens?? I know about Diazenon (sp?) and moth crystals, but will these harm my plants? Thanks, any help would be appreciated. -- Amy Casadevall Bell Communications Research, Inc., Holmdel, NJ ...!ihnp4!houxm!homxa!amyola
tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (06/27/85)
Diazenon won't harm your plants. I have to use the stuff reqularly to fight carpenter ants around my house (they ate my sunporch). It seems to work quite well and has not bothered any plants where I have dosed the ground. Further, it does not seem to bother the other myriad of insects that tromp imperiously over the Diaz and into the house. T. C. W.