Sentences with phrase «kills ants»

It kills ants and scares off frogs.

The insecticide Bendiocarb kills ants, crickets and fleas.

It kills ants in 2 - 3 days - giving them enough time to take it back home and share it with their friends.

I understand that this is a complex issue — is killing a dog the same as killing an ant?

So, you'll kill the ants you see and leave enough behind to get their friends that come looking for them, too.

We want to kill the ants and fleas, but NOT the honey bees!

Katie of Kitchen Stewardship and Wellness Mama talk real food on a budget, battling the sugar giant in society and killing ants naturally without chemicals.

It kills worms, can be used to kill ants and roaches, can be used as a baking agent similar to backing powder and can clean your tiles and WC bowl.

I enjoy reading your blog, and experiment / research as much as possible to find alternatives to BigPharma and the «use a sledge hammer to kill an ant» philosophy.

Using the very large and very powerful 2016 Nissan Titan XD to haul my bed, couch, and other belongings from one apartment to a new one across town seemed a little like killing an ant with an anvil.

and heavy overtones suggesting that killing ants was some kind of analogy for the war on terror?

I think filing for bankruptcy in your situation would be like killing ants with a nuke!

Not exact matches

Among the deals killed recently by the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) were Ant Financial's plan to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc (MGI.O), the purchase by China - backed Canyon Bridge Capital Partners LLC of a U.S. chip maker and plans by Zhongwang USA, backed by a Chinese aluminum tycoon, to buy a U.S. aluminum maker.

It is forbidden to eat donkeys; beasts with claws such as lions, tigers, wolves, and bears; birds with talons, such as hawks and falcons; animals which the Prophet ordered killed, such as snakes, mice, crows; creatures which the Prophet forbade killing, such as ants and bees; animals judged to be dirty, and animals which live on dirt.

Do they not randomly kill others in their nest because ant - god said not to?

Put red ants and black ants together, they will kill each other.

Yet he does recommend killing other creatures only with reluctance, while at the same time acknowledging that a man is vastly more significant to nature (and thus to God) than an ant.33

Ants, build condos, they have an army, a queen, they will attack, kill, and steal from another colony to support their own.

The elephant trod on the little ant, killing him instantly.

Nature is full of malaria and measles and cyanide and fire ants and lions and poison sumac and all sorts of things that can kill us.

Especially in Texas, which would collapse into the Earth's crust if it wasn't held up by one enormous fire ant colony and where trees are just glorified bushes, «picnic» is just code for «trying not to kill one another as we gag down tepid, curdled mayonnaise».

This means they have collateral damage, killing useful insects vital to our ecosystem such as spiders and ants.

What's great about this is that, while it kills on contact, you don't have to spray it where you see ants.

For starters, one application kills a fire ant mound in just 15 minutes.

It will also kill roaches, ants, spiders, lice, and even Lyme disease - carrying ticks.

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

This Raid Ant and Roach spray kills on contact and has a residual effect that lasts 4 weeks.

Fifteen newly discovered fungi can all control the brains of ants in cruel and unusual ways in the moments before killing them.

(The researchers wanted to study the behavior of the P. morrisi they had collected, but they were killed in the lab by other ants.)

A tropical fungus has adapted to infect ants and force them to chomp, with surprising specificity, into perfectly located leaves before killing them and taking over their bodies

Not surprisingly, research on the ants has focused almost exclusively on ways to kill them.

Their arrival adds insult to injury for the lizards, whose habitat has already undergone fragmentation, because the Argentine intruders have made it quite clear that they won't share their habitat with the ants the lizards like to eat: the territorial creatures have killed and displaced ants 10 times their size.

Although the parasitic fly kills only about 3 per cent of a colony per year, its presence is so disruptive that it gives other ants a chance to compete.

The sub-Saharan ants have a strict termite - only diet, and some of their ranks sustain injuries when they conduct raids to capture and kill the insects.

Whenever they spot Escovopsis, they secrete phenylacetic acid from a special gland in their thoraxes, a strategy that kills the fungus and sets the ants apart from close relatives that cultivate bacteria and other microbes to fight off the fungi.

Something very similar happens in Lasius neglectus, as Christopher Pull describes: «The ants produce formic acid that can kill the fungus, but it needs to enter the pupa's body for it to work.

Once attached to the ant larva, the wasps wait for the ant to pupate, kill their host and then complete their development within the ant nest.

The larvae, less than 0.1 mm in size, are responsible for finding their way into the ant nest where they attack and kill the larvae and pupae of the ants.

Two species of spiders that ordinarily hunt other spiders, and did so successfully in the lab, killed less than one - fifth of the ant mimics.

A monogyne colony will accept only the original queen and kill any other that shows up; these ants are very aggressive in general.

Worker ants can choose to rupture their abdominal wall to ward off or kill enemies.

«Our experiments with fipronil and bifenthrin sprays indicate that the overall kill of these insecticides on Argentine ant colonies is substantially improved — by 57 to 142 percent — by incorporating (Z)-9-hexadecenal in the sprays,» said Dong - Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology and the research project leader, whose lab focuses on urban entomology, insect behavior and chemical ecology.

«Novel «attract - and - kill» approach could help tackle Argentine ants.»

The social parasite T. americanus carries out raids on neighboring host colonies in order to steal their young, often killing adult worker ants and the queen in the process.

A weight greater than 0.8 g, or about 750 times body weight, prevented ants from moving any limbs at all but did not kill or appear to injure them after we removed the transparency sheets from the ants.

A dab of the venom of the fire ant (seen at left) would kill some insects, but not Rasberry crazy ants (at right).

There are very few other animals running around during the day at the open edges of these waterbodies — just ants and cane toads — and when we increased ant numbers by baiting, this didn't increase the numbers of native species killed by ants.

After killing its host, the so - called zombie ant fungus grows from the cadaver and produces spores, which rain down on the forest floor to infect new hosts.

Also presented are possible alternative approaches to tackling infections, such as phages (viruses that kill bacteria) sourcing new antibiotic leads from oceans, soils and host - associated microbiomes in humans, komodo dragons and leafcutter ants.

Even if your guy has never picked up a club, he may still be exposing himself and his hormones to the same kinds of pesticides if he ever does lawn work or doubles as your in - house, ant - killing exterminator.