That’s pretty funny and interesting. I didn’t expect the two explanations of attracting ants and supplying nutrients for the plants making them stronger. I was thinking it’s so chemical heavy that it kills off the insects. Interesting!
Yeah it's interesting that sugar water is basically promoting natural pest control. Mightn't be an effective pesticide, but if the end result is still less pests, it's a win
My great grandmother used to put out saucers of Coke to kill mice. She believed it worked because rodents can't burp. I have no idea whether any of this is true.
I don't know about rodents, but I know seagulls explode. When fed bread drenched in coke, their stomach explodes. I had a colleague in the navy who thought this was funny. Someone who tortures animals and is allowed to handle guns... At least I got him into trouble which forced him to stop harming seagulls.
No, you didn't because they don't. Birds don't explode when fed anything that produces gas as they will simply vomit. This lie is up there with lads who "did some cow tipping in their day". Stop spreading misinformation.
I imagine it must be some other mechanism of action? I find it hard to believe that the CO2 in that bit of coke could cause its stomach to expand to the point of explosion, but it does seem likely that there are some other ingredients in soda that are very harmful to birds
It's just mildly acidic sugar water. There's not enough of anything is an entire can of coke to kill a bird. Unless this bread was soaked in a fast acting poison, this story is 100% bullshit.
I don't think this will work in my yard. The ants are farming aphids already. Boiling water helped a little with the grass and some of their aphid farms but the ants remain vigilant.
Plants love Brawndo!
It's got electrolytes!
It's got what plants crave!
That’s pretty funny and interesting. I didn’t expect the two explanations of attracting ants and supplying nutrients for the plants making them stronger. I was thinking it’s so chemical heavy that it kills off the insects. Interesting!
Yeah it's interesting that sugar water is basically promoting natural pest control. Mightn't be an effective pesticide, but if the end result is still less pests, it's a win
Makes me think of how a can of beer can be used to centralize slugs and trap them, yuck
My great grandmother used to put out saucers of Coke to kill mice. She believed it worked because rodents can't burp. I have no idea whether any of this is true.
Modern rodenticides use the fact that they cannot vomit, so it could be
I don't know about rodents, but I know seagulls explode. When fed bread drenched in coke, their stomach explodes. I had a colleague in the navy who thought this was funny. Someone who tortures animals and is allowed to handle guns... At least I got him into trouble which forced him to stop harming seagulls.
No, you didn't because they don't. Birds don't explode when fed anything that produces gas as they will simply vomit. This lie is up there with lads who "did some cow tipping in their day". Stop spreading misinformation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/15TM4CDpDGHSq08nWHF3h89/seagull-urban-myths-fact-or-fiction
https://www.birdclinic.net/avian2.htm
I saw them die and I stopped the guy by reporting him. I didn't lie.
I imagine it must be some other mechanism of action? I find it hard to believe that the CO2 in that bit of coke could cause its stomach to expand to the point of explosion, but it does seem likely that there are some other ingredients in soda that are very harmful to birds
It's just mildly acidic sugar water. There's not enough of anything is an entire can of coke to kill a bird. Unless this bread was soaked in a fast acting poison, this story is 100% bullshit.
One reason we have a military is to weed those people out of the general populace.
You’re a poet and didn’t know it.
This post title reads like a rhyme
I find myself looking for a lyrical cadence to it also
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/side-by-pesticide/
I don't think this will work in my yard. The ants are farming aphids already. Boiling water helped a little with the grass and some of their aphid farms but the ants remain vigilant.
It’s 21 year old news.