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I killed ant beds with sweet n low

 
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I like gasoline. Mix it 25/75 with water and spray it along the exterior walls of your house. Ants will stop coming in.
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That reminds me of the guy who gave instructions for cleaning a sink pipe...he was basically making a bomb.

lol
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they put that stuff in about all the bubble gums . pur gum and glee gum are about the only ones that dont use it. am stoping buying bubble gums
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Killed my dad too

cryptogenic liver disease they call it

means they don't know the source

How can they not know? He drank at least a couple 2 liter diet sodas every day.

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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Sweet n'Low contains saccharin

Equal contains aspartame

they used to put saccharin in diet drinks, but now it is aspartame.

saccharin is still used in sweet n'Low, but I don't know if it's in anything else these days.

Splenda is sucralose


And just a thought for everyone who goes on and on about this being poison and giving people cancer....diabetes or its complications will kill you much sooner than you will get cancer from this stuff....if you even do. May people consume artificial sweeteners all of their lives with no adverse effects... not everyone, of course. But it doesn't bother a lot of people at all.

You're not gonna live forever no matter what you do.

People on here go on and on about all the stuff in the food we eat that poisons us, but we still live longer than people ever have. People would live even longer if it weren't for being overweight. Being overweight and smoking (and too much booze or drugs) sends many more people to their graves early than all the fluoride, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, and anything else you can think of combined.

Steve jobs would touch a soft drink with a 10 ft. pole and you see how much it helped him.

All things in perspective.
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True dat! But I still avoid artificial sweeteners.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
You can thank Donald Rumsfeld and Ronald Reagan.
They are the reason we humans consume aspartame.

Aspartame was ant poison.
Searle Corp was scrambling to find a solution to the 'saccharin' problem. That being, floods of studies linking saccharin with cancer.

Searle submitted aspartame to the FDA who soundly rejected it as a food additive, more than once.

Searle CEO Rumsfeld had a buddy in Reagan.
Reagan issued an Executive Order changing the way the FDA approves food additives.
Rumsfeld's Searle Corp resubmits its ant poison once again to the FDA.

This time the US-FDA approved it for human consumption..

I've been telling people this since the late 1980's.
Aspartame is poison. :(
 Quoting: wisc_natureboy


OK, perhaps not Executive Order, rather by appointment.
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Independent analyses of these studies [by Searle, manufacturer of aspartame] ... proves conclusively that aspartame is actually a dangerous, neurotoxic, carcinogenic and highly-addictive drug. ... Rumsfeld was hired as Searle CEO on March 8, 1977 and immediately ... fired many of its high-level managers, replacing them with other politically-connected Washington, D.C., insiders. ... There was [however] no doubt, based upon objective analyses of evidence that had accumulated for over a decade, that aspartame was deathly poisonous to lab animals and caused a statistically significant number of them to develop tumors. ... Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president January 21, 1981. Rumsfeld, while still CEO at Searle, was part of Reagan's transition team. This team hand-picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., to be the new FDA commissioner. ... Hayes, left his post at the FDA in November, 1983, amid accusations that he was accepting corporate gifts for political favors. Just before leaving office in scandal, Hayes approved the use of aspartame in beverages. ... Within weeks ... cans of diet sodas and other sweet drinks were on the market ... and [aspartame] is now in an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 commonly-consumed products in at least 100 countries. When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985, Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus. ... Not surprisingly, the same adverse reactions seen in lab animals in the 60s and 70s are now being seen in the general population. ... Rumsfeld became the CEO of Searle to secure political approval for a product that science had proven to be a highly-addictive neurotoxic drug that causes chronic ill health, brain tumors and death.

[link to www.opednews.com]
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Thank you, personally from me, for continually telling people no matter how ignored it may seem.

I have no doubt you receive such far more seldom than you deserve to hugs
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Sweet n Low is not Aspartame.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
You can also use Ant Chalk:

[link to www.google.com]
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If you have a dog or cat, be very careful not to give him anything containing Xylitol sweetener.

Can be lethal in surprisingly small amounts - and a very unpleasant way to go - Liver failure, severe drop in blood-sugars - vomiting, fitting, bleeding from eyes, ears, nose, and internally.
1 gram can possibly kill a 20lb dog.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Aspartame kills.

I have tried everything from store bought ant killer, boiling water, grits, borax and a glass. They just move and make another bed.

Stirred the ant beds up, then sprinkled with 8 - 10 packets of sweet n low. This morning they are gone. Will let you know if moved.

Last year, I killed a mouse with a little dish of aspartame.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Killed my dad too

cryptogenic liver disease they call it

means they don't know the source

How can they not know? He drank at least a couple 2 liter diet sodas every day.

anonstoner
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21548336


So, you can't say it was the diet soda can you...
It could have been anything...
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Thought I would give a very safe way to "send them packing", but not kill them.

Ants despise cinnamon. They will avoid it at all costs. It will not kill them, but they will go somewhere else.

(concerning Aspertame: I know a personal friend that had "Aspertame Poisioning", and it nearly KILLED him!) This is dangerous stuff.

To all that say it is ruining our environment, YOU are absolutely correct!
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Ants, my Grandfather, whatever. verysad
 Quoting: kgblol


Pretty sure it killed my Grandmother too.

Use stevia or honey for sweetening whenever possible.
 Quoting: Lady Jane Smith


I use sugar in the raw, when i use , try to stay away from all of it
 Quoting: Goofy for God


I think the key here is read labels. One article in Wiki talks about the "other" additives that create the Stevia compound and if you read the label it ends up sounding like a chemistry book not a soft drink! [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Best to consume only natural ORGANIC sugar and LOCAL raised honey in my humble opinion. As for Ant Control..make sure your dogs and cats don't get near artificial sweetners as they absorb though their paws and cats lick themselves constantly so anything they come in contact with can lead to problems.. and that leads to my next research project... why our Dogs are getting "toxic" syndrome and greater "cancer" levels than ever before?
[link to www.holisticpetinfo.com]

As for the ants.. try cornstarch, diatomateous earth or Borax.. much more inert but of course keep away from curious kids and pets if you can.. a few more ideas to try..
[link to www.mnn.com]
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Sweet n Low is not Aspartame.
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Sweet N Low is coal tar derivative . Drink up buttercup.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Sweet n'Low contains saccharin

Equal contains aspartame

they used to put saccharin in diet drinks, but now it is aspartame.

saccharin is still used in sweet n'Low, but I don't know if it's in anything else these days.

Splenda is sucralose


And just a thought for everyone who goes on and on about this being poison and giving people cancer....diabetes or its complications will kill you much sooner than you will get cancer from this stuff....if you even do. May people consume artificial sweeteners all of their lives with no adverse effects... not everyone, of course. But it doesn't bother a lot of people at all.

You're not gonna live forever no matter what you do.

People on here go on and on about all the stuff in the food we eat that poisons us, but we still live longer than people ever have. People would live even longer if it weren't for being overweight. Being overweight and smoking (and too much booze or drugs) sends many more people to their graves early than all the fluoride, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, and anything else you can think of combined.

Steve jobs would touch a soft drink with a 10 ft. pole and you see how much it helped him.

All things in perspective.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21100567


True dat! But I still avoid artificial sweeteners.
 Quoting: Wookiee666


People will avoid artificial sweeteners and fluoride in their water but will continue to cram all sorts of processed garbage into their stomachs...lol.
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I like the peeps defending SweetnLow !!!!

COAL TAR IS GOOD FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY !!!!!

Lately we just use a couple teaspoons of creosote in our coffee .

It contains the Odic force. ; p
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Didn't read shit, just the title. My first click before bed. Don't have a clue what this thread is about... doesn't matter.

Thank you for the calm.

hf
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Aspartame kills.

I have tried everything from store bought ant killer, boiling water, grits, borax and a glass. They just move and make another bed.

Stirred the ant beds up, then sprinkled with 8 - 10 packets of sweet n low. This morning they are gone. Will let you know if moved.

Last year, I killed a mouse with a little dish of aspartame.
 Quoting: Renegade (Me too)


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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
sweet and low is saccharin no aspartame but it kills just as much
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Sorry thread. I had to go to work.
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When I lived in Austin, TX, I used aspartame to kill all our bugs and roaches... Works great on fire-ants!
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I thought I had heard that somewhere.
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Renegade (Me too)  (OP)

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Diet Pepsi works just as good! Kills bugs quick. And people drink this shit!
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So you are saying, poor diet coke on an ant bed?
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Renegade (Me too)  (OP)

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Ugh. I was raised using sweet n low since Mom is a diabetic. Sugar tastes weird now...

Interesting read. I remember a few months back reading that they came to the conclusion aspartame in fact doesn't hurt you as previous thought.

[link to www.aspartame.org]

Recently, several governments and expert scientific committees (including the Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency, the French Food Safety Agency and Health Canada) carefully evaluated the Internet allegations and found them to be false, reconfirming the safety of aspartame. In addition, leading health authorities, such as the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Lupus Foundation of America, have reviewed the claims on the Internet and also concluded that they are false.

Just something to read and ponder.
 Quoting: HarleyQuinn


I know a guy who is a chemist who has a brother who is also a chemist who worked on formulating aspartame. (is this good GLP cred's) Original brother always said stay away from anything with aspartame. It is bad, bad stuff. Wouldn't let his kids drink/eat anything with the stuff
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I think I believe you.
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Aspartame was originally designed as an ant killer. I don't know why it made made as an ant killer, except that it might have been toxic to the environment.

Anyway, for ant killing purposes, I've never been able to find aspartame for sale in bulk. Everything sold is in packets.

Hmmm...

I'll have to look again.
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Ugh. I was raised using sweet n low since Mom is a diabetic. Sugar tastes weird now...

Interesting read. I remember a few months back reading that they came to the conclusion aspartame in fact doesn't hurt you as previous thought.

[link to www.aspartame.org]

Recently, several governments and expert scientific committees (including the Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency, the French Food Safety Agency and Health Canada) carefully evaluated the Internet allegations and found them to be false, reconfirming the safety of aspartame. In addition, leading health authorities, such as the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Lupus Foundation of America, have reviewed the claims on the Internet and also concluded that they are false.

Just something to read and ponder.
 Quoting: HarleyQuinn


I know a guy who is a chemist who has a brother who is also a chemist who worked on formulating aspartame. (is this good GLP cred's) Original brother always said stay away from anything with aspartame. It is bad, bad stuff. Wouldn't let his kids drink/eat anything with the stuff
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26165384


I think I believe you.
 Quoting: Renegade (Me too)


I'm not a chemist. But every time I see someone I know use aspartame, I always say "Don't eat that, it's poison!"
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Sweet n low has no aspartame
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this
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Are you sure?
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Equal does
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
hey guys....have a small, regular Spring ant problem in kitchen. thanks for the idea. I have the borax powder, too.

easy way to solve which product to use....which color was the packet? :-)

Which fake sweetener is in diet coke?

Ant doom rockon
 Quoting: KarinZa


You can also try planting peonies if you're in the right zone (they're fine with 3-8, so few places in US should have big problems). Even if the ants makes the blooms not so nice, they love them and will colony closer to the plants than your house. They don't feed on the plants themselves, only the nectar, so the plants don't mind - just leave the ants be and they won't want to feed from your kitchen.

They're crazy fast dividing perennials that last many, many years too.

Even if they only solve half the problem (spring season before bloom time might require other short-term control solutions), it's still, literally, a beautiful idea :)
 Quoting: Sleepy Cat on the Blue Mat


Great suggestion, but I don't think we have peonies in Georgia. We have rednecks and pansies.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Please try an experiment with Splenda (sucralose) on another ant test bed. I would like to hear what it does to them. Make mutated zombie ants? Probably much more poisonous than sweet n low. It's chlorinated hydrocarbons.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Aspartame kills.

I have tried everything from store bought ant killer, boiling water, grits, borax and a glass. They just move and make another bed.

Stirred the ants beds up, then sprinkled with 8 - 10 packets of sweet n low. This morning they are gone. Will let you know if moved.

Last year, I killed a mouse with a little dish of aspartame.
 Quoting: Renegade (Me too)


true mix 50-50 with sugar a teaspoon will kill a hundred ants colonys within 100 meters ...

aspartame is a fucking powerfull insect killer , the bees are being fucked bad by waste diet soda cans , one sip from a single bee kills a full colony , goverment is hiding that to protect the billion dollar diet soda industry .. cool2
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Wasn't it originally designed as an insect killer?
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I was planning on stopping on the way home to pick up some ant poison. I'll stop by the waffle house instead and aquire some sweet n low. I'll report back.
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Re: I killed ant beds with sweet n low
Thank you, thank you! Have been battling fire ants a few years here near Lockhart, and nothing has worked. Terro brand worked the best, but haven't been able to find it lately.





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