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WE'VE GOT ANTS![Eco-Wacko Alert]
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^
| 6/11/06
| Mike Toner
Posted on 06/11/2006 3:31:25 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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What have Fire ants got to do with anything? Well if you delve a bit deeper into the article you will see 2 telling quotes:
Early efforts to eradicate fire ants --- using World War II bombers to drop pesticide-laced bait --- killed more wildlife than ants. The fire ant eradication effort, derided by some as "the Vietnam of entomology," earned its place among many other misguided attempts to mess with Mother Nature in Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."
As if man's meddling wasn't enough our assault on the planet is making things even worse:
Gradually, fire ants are settling into their niche in nature's scheme of things. Cold temperatures have blocked, at least for now, the northward expansion of the ants. Global warming, of course, could help extend their range further.
Once again nature triumphs over the evil human race. If we're bothered by fire ants we have noone but ourselves (and the ignoring of the Kyoto Protocols) to blame.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
ignoring of the Kyoto Protocols, eh? I smell ozone
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:35:21 PM PDT
by
texas_mrs
(Build a wall NOW!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom; darkwing104; MikefromOhio
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:37:36 PM PDT
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Once again nature triumphs over the evil human race. If we're bothered by fire ants we have noone but ourselves (and the ignoring of the Kyoto Protocols) to blame.
And after I type this I am going to go pollute in my horribly ineffcient car and get fast food, just to piss libs like you off.
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:38:37 PM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - WTFO)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:38:45 PM PDT
by
groanup
(Shred For Ian)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
..you must've broke down somewhere along the internet and decided to wander in here.. Town seems quiet, doesn't it??..too quiet..better get that Prius running and fast, mister. Consider yourself warned..
To: Oshkalaboomboom
cheese
moose
sister
log in
moron
liberal
kaboom!!!
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:39:29 PM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - WTFO)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
what they don't realize is that the ants are usually there even when you don't see them. I get reminded of that every time I bend over to pull up a weed in my yard and get stungMy "favorite" is when I pick a peach from a peach tree and dozens of fire ants start coming out of the peach! Last year they almost killed one of my peach trees.
I have posted this in FR before but it never hurts to remind people: if a fire ant bites you, use a roll-on deodorant that contains baking soda in it (such as Arm and Hammer). I've been using it for years now and, if used promptly, you won't have those annoying blisters the following day. My son is allergic to fire ants and I used to carry an epinephrine pen with me... now all I use is the deodorant and it works!
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:40:55 PM PDT
by
Former Fetus
(fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:41:16 PM PDT
by
BruceysMom
(.I'm hot & not in a good way, menopause ain't for sissies.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
(and the ignoring of the Kyoto Protocols)Are YOU the eco whacko you are warning us about?
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:42:49 PM PDT
by
BruceysMom
(.I'm hot & not in a good way, menopause ain't for sissies.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
None of those little buggers set up shop around my yard for long. Lights out with a good overdose of pesticide.
I see a dirt patch coming up out of my neighbor's yards and I'll sneak over and get that one also.
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:42:49 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
...Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." An unparalleled bit of dishonesty directly responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:45:11 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: BruceysMom
Chew toy for the Viking Kitties?
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:45:34 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: PeteB570
Around here is "Chew toy of the Gnat Gods" (A book locally published here in Savannah, Ga) Best way to get rid of fire ants is uncooked Grits. Pour some around the mound....they take it down. After a day or so, add water. The Grits swell up and plug up the mound and most things in it.
In combo with Ampro...they DIE!
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:51:19 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I swear there is a solid layer of fire ants a foot thick under Florida. They also live in trees, in the walls of your house; they are everywhere. They are voracious eaters and can reduce a small dead animal (mole or snake) to a skeleton in less than a day. If the turkey vulture doesn't handle the clean-up, the fire ant will. All the chemicals seem to do is to move them from one location to another. I don't see how Florida livestock can co-exist in untreated fields. If the author thinks that we can somehow co-exist with these predators, s/he's crazy.
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:52:49 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("So to hell with that twerp at the [WaPo]. I've got no time for him on a day like this." Mark Steyn)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
We've got the big black ones. Ant motels take care of those just fine. Why not use them for fire ants. The red ones turn up their mandibles at them or something?
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:56:05 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Former Fetus
I have posted this in FR before but it never hurts to remind people: if a fire ant bites you, use a roll-on deodorant that contains baking soda in it (such as Arm and Hammer). I've been using it for years now and, if used promptly, you won't have those annoying blisters the following day.Thank you very much, I hadn't read that before. I'm sitting here looking at my right foot with several of those wunnerful fire ant blisters from three days ago. I'll follow your advice - and it better work!:D
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posted on
06/11/2006 3:58:39 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: Oshkalaboomboom
. If we're bothered by fire ants we have noone but ourselves (and the ignoring of the Kyoto Protocols) to blame. I'm bothered more by enviormental Nazi's then Fireants, because I can get away with killing fireants.....by the millions!!
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posted on
06/11/2006 4:01:17 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(Attention illegals: Why don't you do the jobs we can't do? Like fix your own countries problems!)
To: MikefromOhio
Jet stream shift could alter path of deserts
By MIKE TONER
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posted on
06/11/2006 4:03:04 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
06/11/2006 4:06:43 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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