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From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Humming bird feeder  and ...
Message-ID: <90206.140819JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 25 Jul 90 19:08:19 GMT
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This is about discouraging ants -- and it's kinda gross, but
usually pretty effective.
 
I use double-sticky tape on the line holding the feeder, or on
the poles holding the line holding the feeder.  Most ants take
one step and whoops!  no more steps....works well with fire ants,
for example.  Give it a shot. (Besides, it might make it really
easy to feed the flickers in your neighborhood, as they eat ants).
 
Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
voice: 513-529-1679      fax: 513-529-6900
jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
 
In the late Devouring Period, fish became obnoxious.  Clamosaurs
and Oysterettes appeared as appetizers.