Posted on 09/17/2020 11:53:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As long as they’re not floating in my commode...
That would sure wake you up.
I guess that the Murder Hornets didn’t pan out.
I once was playing golf in Galveston, my ball was 6 inches from a bush, and I had to back into the bush to get a good swing.
Unfortunately, the “bush” was brush growing on a large fire ant mound. Ouch.
Are they Zutanos?
Not Zutano. More like Godzilla. You could eat for days on one of those awesome avocados. As buttery as the best Hass. Sadly, tree died several years ago of old age. None of the replacement fruit hold a candle to that beloved tree.
Too bad about your tree.
Kidding about the Godzilla avocado variety. I tried for years to confirm the variety, without success. The tree produced outstanding fruit. Best ever. Tree was bigger than the two story house when I bought it. Old tree.
Suzanne Somers in “Ants”
G rated but may excite ant lovers....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GrNVCZk5Uc
https://www.musicman.com/00pic/3528.jpg
The Naked Jungle is based upon this very excellent short story. I first read it in high school back in the 60s.
http://classic.esquire.com/article/1938/12/1/leiningen-versus-the-ants
Leiningen Versus the Ants
December 1 1938 CARL STEPHENSON
West Jackson Mississippi circa 1965
Eisenhower street ....now stone cold Walking Dead looking ghetto
Little crackerjack homes then for white guys fresh from WWII
1000 sq ft max
My grandmothers home then
I got in a fight with kid next door
I won and retired to my grandpas pickup bed tail gate down to savor my victory
Meanwhile the defeated had dug up a mound of fire ants and snuck up and dumped them on my bare back....100s or 1000s....about ten pounds of seething nest
My back was covered in bites
I had to be rushed to emergency room and given pretty serious doses of Benadryl drip and adrenaline ...
And a leeching cream applied to my back to try to extract the venom
I barely remember it since I passed out
Weirdly though now when they get me I just itch mostly
They are not common in middle Tennessee...fairly uncommon actually but south Mississippi they are omnipresent
When I was a kid they utilized WWII bombers outfitted with tanks of Myrex....malathion......to air spray for them squadron style
Of course same folks who stopped DDT FOG stopped that
Leprosy?
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What did the Lepper tell the call girl?
“You can keep the tip.”
Thank you.
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