One of the methods used in controlling Oecophylla smaragdina is to use baiting. The purpose of this study was to analyze comparison the effectiveness of the fipronil and imidacloprid active substances to control Oecophylla smaragdina. The methods used in this study include the preparation of test insects, making of toxic bait, test the effectiveness of toxic baits, calculation of mortality and data analysis. ANOVA test results obtained a significance value of 0.00 (P < 0.05), this indicates that there is a significant difference in the percentage of mortality between the treatment groups. The results showed that the two active substances could cause 100% mortality in weaver ants. In addition, the lowest LT50 and LT90 occurred in the use of bait with fipronil, namely LT50 = 6.31 hours and LT90 = 11.21 hours. The active substance fipronil only takes 12 hours to cause weaver ants to experience 100% mortality. In the group of weaver ants who were given bait with a combination of the active substance imidacloprid, the ants died 100% after 24 hours of treatment. The results of this study show that the active substance fipronil is more effective in controlling Oecophylla smaragdina compared to the active substance imidacloprid.

This paper aims to present ecofeminist insights into the connection between the domination toward women and nature through reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s short story, Homeland. Environment destruction that has occurred in decades endangers the life on earth. Based on the ecofeminism, the one who gets the worst impact of this devastation is women. Furthermore, the ecofeminists say that there is a very close relation between women and nature.  Clean water, forest, farming, and health become women’s concern. In short, these two ideas let women become aware of the environmental issues. They will take action or speak out whenever environment is mistreated or abused. In Homeland, Kingsolver presents a picture of American Indian descendants life that gives high appreciation to nature embedded in their traditional values and customs through the female characters.  She brings us to the fascinating exploration of the values that shows the connection between domination over women and nature. However, modernism brings about alienation toward her ancestor’s land.

Becoming homestay hosts for foreigners is not easy as they have to have English skill to communicate with the guests. They need to master, at least, the English expressions to serve the guests at their house. In addition, they also need to understand their local culture to be shown to the guests. To equip the homestay hosts with English speaking skill which has local-content, an investigation on what English expressions needed and what local culture can be embedded into the lesson was done. By interviewing ten homestay hosts in Kandri village, a tourism village in Semarang, local culture of the village was explored to be included in English for Homestay host module. Therefore, this paper aims to describe what localcontent English expressions will be in the module of English for Homestay host.