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ZOMBIE FIRE ANTS: Fly that controls ants may hold key to pest control
Lufkin Daily News ^
| May 13, 2009
| STEVEN ALFORD
Posted on 05/13/2009 6:41:40 PM PDT by csvset
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Pest management specialist Scott Ludwig recently released a new fire ant-killing fly into the wild at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton, in East Texas. The flies lay eggs inside the fire ants which grow in the head of the's actions before killing them.
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05/13/2009 6:41:40 PM PDT
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csvset
To: csvset
“Now this is what environmentalists should be spending their time on. Finding forms of nature that destroy other forms of nature that are inconvienent to man.”
—Hank Hill
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05/13/2009 6:45:29 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: csvset
I heard about this program years ago and have been waiting for a progress report. This is the same report I saw years ago!!
Hasn't any progress been made?
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05/13/2009 6:45:55 PM PDT
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blam
To: csvset
Scott Ludwig even looks like Dale Gribble. Good grief!
To: csvset
Don't know what kind of ants these are but I found several big mounds just swarming with them in the Michigan woods the other day.
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05/13/2009 6:46:51 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: csvset
Great, now we’ll have weird fly problems.
And didn’t Hank Hill try this on King of the Hill (Dale thwarted the effort because he works as an exterminator)
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05/13/2009 6:46:54 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: csvset
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05/13/2009 6:50:01 PM PDT
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BufordP
("I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."--George "the Abandoner" Bush)
To: csvset
A fly lays an egg inside an unsuspecting victim walking in the woods on a sunny day. Soon the egg matures and moves into the head of its prey, taking bodily control before turning the prey into a living zombie. Before the victim knows what's happening, its head pops off and a new fly emerges, off to find another host. The democratic party strategy exposed at last.
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05/13/2009 6:51:17 PM PDT
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freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: csvset
O.K. This can’t get out of control!
So, what happens when the food source for the flies is eliminated?
Sounds like something we’ll be reading about, oh, say 10 years or so from now.
Imagine sitting there on your back patio, enjoying a hot dog fresh off the grill. Your kids are playing on the swing set. Your cute little doggie wonders over, wagging his cute little tail, and, POW!!!, his head explodes and a giant fly comes out.
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05/13/2009 6:51:45 PM PDT
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mark3681
To: csvset
To: freedumb2003
>> The democratic party strategy exposed at last.
LOL! You beat me to it.
I was going to say “sounds like what happens to a student in the school of journalism of a major university”, but same idea.
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05/13/2009 6:54:04 PM PDT
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Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: csvset
Wow...more surprising than the research is the fact that Texas A & M and UT are working together. Wonders will never cease! ;-) jk
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05/13/2009 6:55:10 PM PDT
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zlala
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05/13/2009 6:55:17 PM PDT
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csvset
To: Nervous Tick
I love it when great minds think alike. :)
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posted on
05/13/2009 6:57:08 PM PDT
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freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: csvset
Interesting post. Thanks.
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05/13/2009 6:57:52 PM PDT
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GOPJ
To: csvset
How many flies would it take to kill one fire ant nest? Thousands?
I see another man made unintended consequence on the horizon.
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05/13/2009 7:00:41 PM PDT
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Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: zlala
Wow...more surprising than the research is the fact that Texas A & M and UT are working together. Wonders will never cease! ;-) jk Next up -- dogs and cats living together...
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05/13/2009 7:00:46 PM PDT
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freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: freedumb2003
Next up -- dogs and cats living together...It's shocking I tell ya!
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05/13/2009 7:04:50 PM PDT
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zlala
To: blam
I heard about this program years ago and have been waiting for a progress report. This is the same report I saw years ago!! Hasn't any progress been made? Same here, I was looking for the progress since then.
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05/13/2009 7:04:55 PM PDT
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BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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