Posted on 06/05/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by Gabz
Sound like fireants on steroids with wings!
Do they die when they sting or do they keep on stinging?
I like your typo much better than mine! I’ve got plenty of mint—just pick your kind. You bring the Rum and we can make mojitas!
Course, you’ll have to tell me what they taste like—as soon as I get a whiff of rum, I’ll be out!
Here is some info from the TAMU.edu website about the “killer bees”. Note the third one.
http://honeybee.tamu.edu/safety/index.html
Respond quickly to disturbances by people and animals 50 feet or more from the nest.
Sense vibrations from power equipment 100 feet or more from the nest.
Sting in large numbers.
Will chase an enemy up to a ¼ mile or more.
Have a higher rate of reproduction (swarm more frequently).
Nest in smaller cavities and sometimes underground (e.g. water meters and animal burrows).
Y’all can keep those! :)
I want to box up the fireants and send them to Iraq. Just can’t figure out how to get them over there. Can you imagine being the pilot on that plane?!
Ants on a plane?
Well, there are some other ants or insects in the Houston area that actually kill fireants. There was an FR thread last month about that.
Yeah. LOL That would be worse than that stupid movie—Snakes on a plane?
Not sure I want to know what insects will take on fireants and win. LOL
They’ve pretty much wiped out all the native ants—except the sweet ants, and you never see both at the same time—hmmmm.
Thanks! Ants are fine—as long as they stay outside and off me!
An asidem about Vicks: I had an injured big toenail; not fungus, I had it tested. But danged if that thing under the nail wouldn't go away. Sure enough, I heard to rub Vicks under the nail and around the cuticle. Voila! Not entirely gone, but only I know the speck is there. Sure is cheaper than the $500/bottle the podiatrist told me was available.
I've heard and read where Vicks also works on FUNGUS under the nail (toe, finger).
Ticks get under your skin; fungus and nail bruises are under the nail: Vicks to the Rescue!
First time my kids saw a tick on our dog, they went on the internet... they were fairly certain that particular tick resembled a poisonous one. High Drama ensued! I just kicked back and let them take charge. Oh, the worry, the fleeing to the Vet (my driving kids) to save the Dog!
Only to learn it was a boring, brown tick.
And the clinic removed the tick. Kids were fine.
But my dog was absolutely manic that entire evening. So sure she was gonna die. She was frothing at the mouth and occasionally spasming with "convulsion".
That tick episode just wore the dog out. Kids kept fretting. Finally, the high drama got too much for me: I called some of my dog friends for a second opinion. They said Queenie was just being hysterical.
Oh the Drama!
Yep. My, my.
Ugh. Fireants.
Ticks and Dogs are like Rum and Coke, they just go together. We had a Black Lab that stayed with our caretaker at our Klamath River place who either had Porcupine quills in his snout or Ticks that required removal. One day old Spook would not get up and appeared paralyzed so I called a vet on our radio phone and described the situation. He said to roll Spook over to see if there was a Tick in the flesh of his groin area and sure as hell there was a big fat one. Vet said to remove it and put anti-biotic on the wound. I used the Vicks to smother it and removed it a hour later with tweezers. Two hours later Ole Spook was out gathering every stick for 3 miles around and stacked them in the yard for the fools to throw for him...
Ole Spook...best damn dog I ever owned. Drink!
Seems to me, reading what you describe, the Vicks would have made the tick "retract" into itself somewhat, temporarily stunning the hypostome activity of "digging in" and "hanging tight".
The Hypostome of a Tick.
Photo is courtesy of Placerville (CA) Vet. (http://www.placervillevet.com/tickhead.htm)
Poor baby Spook; he felt so glad it was gone, he wanted to do it all over again. lol.
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