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Travis County approves funding to control crazy ants population
kxan ^
| May 30, 2018
| Lauren Kravets
Posted on 05/30/2018 11:20:28 AM PDT by bgill
Travis County is partnering with the University of Texas at Austin to evaluate a pathogen as a biological control agent for tawny crazy ants. The invasive ants can threaten your yards and get into your home. They also threaten songbirds and some endangered species. Researchers at UT will introduce the microsporidian pathogen by inoculating tawny crazy ant colonies. In prior research, experts found the pathogen may significantly reduce TCA populations.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: crazyants; nylanderiafulva; texas
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Crazy ants. Fire ants. Red ants. Carpenter ants. Cut ants. And their cousins, termites. I don't care for any of them.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:20:28 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: bgill
They’re crazy in reaction to the name we gave them.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:22:53 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: bgill
I had a crazy aunt. She was sooooo mean to us!
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:23:27 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
I reads an ant book several years ago. Among useless facts were that the entire biomass of ants weighs 5 times that of humans. We are soooooo0 screwed.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:25:08 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: bgill
I once heard a joke. To get rid of em you need some black Krylon spray paint and a stick. Stir up the nest with the stick to bring them all up to the surface. Quickly spray them all with the paint.
When they go back inside, they’ll see each other and they’ll stop working and begin killing each other.
I thought that joke was very insensitive.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:26:56 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: bgill
Wasn’t there some Irwin Allen flick made back in the 1970s about ants overrunning a town and it would have had the usual cast of familiar faces padding their bank accounts?
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:29:32 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
To: DesertRhino
Your response to the joke is what made me lol. :)
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:29:55 AM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
To: bgill
Fire ants? And I hear it’s like 100 degrees in the Ft. Worth area, with high humidity to boot going up to about 104 in a few days. Nasty.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:32:41 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: bgill
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:33:36 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
To: bgill
Traumatized uncles breath a collective sigh of relief. ;o)
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:41:13 AM PDT
by
OHelix
To: bgill
I was stationed in Panama in the army. When exploring the perimeter of the small Island I was stationed on, I came across a trail of leaf cutter ants that was about two to three feet wide...........That didn't help my fear and hatred of ants one bit.
Unfortunately the company I was assigned with wasn't issued flame throwers..........
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:41:13 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Mother nature is a serial killer......)
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:47:44 AM PDT
by
fatez
(Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
To: bgill
We actually take care to avoid hurting the ant colonies around the house because ants are a great defense against termites...and when you live in a log house that’s important!
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:49:45 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: NohSpinZone
I had a crazy aunt. She was sooooo mean to us!Me, too! She liked to grab the refrigerator door handle while turning on the water in the kitchen sink, whoop as she got shocked and tell us to never, ever do that.
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posted on
05/30/2018 11:49:51 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
To: bgill
I have a crazy aunt. Doesn’t everyone?
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:02:53 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(government=overfunded stupidity.)
To: bgill
Travis County would love invasive ants if they voted for Democrats like invasive people do.
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:04:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: bgill
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:17:41 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: bgill
Crazy ants also like to get into electrical equipment. Somehow the EM fields attract them. Then the ants like to munch on the insulation. And then amazing things happen, especially when there is 480 volt or higher, 3 phase.
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:27:42 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Fred Hayek
Fire ants used to constantly get into our outside A/C unit. We moved.
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:39:48 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: hal ogen
There are a lot of humans trying to turn that around!
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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