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Venom attracts decapitating flies (venom of fire ants)
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| September 18th, 2009
| Rachel Ehrenberg
Posted on 09/18/2009 10:28:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
09/18/2009 10:28:42 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I really wish that these scientists would get busy releasing these flies in earnest over the whole of North Texas. We really need a natural predator to get our fire ant population under control.
I could live with one tenth the number of ant mounds (which is typical of native South American fire ant populations, per the article).
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posted on
09/18/2009 11:03:31 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Is there any effective method to kill fire ant mounds?
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posted on
09/18/2009 11:17:00 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
To: Frantzie
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posted on
09/18/2009 11:32:56 PM PDT
by
AlmaKing
To: neverdem
Fire ants have more than 10 glands I had a gym teacher like that.
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posted on
09/18/2009 11:35:00 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
To: neverdem
This thread needs pictures!
Regards,
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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posted on
09/19/2009 12:51:32 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
I just bought my wife the perfume - Venom. If the flies get her can I be charged?
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posted on
09/19/2009 12:55:56 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: Frantzie
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posted on
09/19/2009 12:59:15 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(If you believe you can tell me what to think, I believe I can tell you where to go.)
To: Frantzie
Is there any effective method to kill fire ant mounds? Napalm.
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posted on
09/19/2009 1:28:54 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: Frantzie
Is there any effective method to kill fire ant mounds? Nuke it from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
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posted on
09/19/2009 2:09:41 AM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Windflier
a slow ant death that ends in decapitationAh, the flies are muslims!
To: PJ-Comix
Pitt vs. the Fire Ants Alert!
To: Frantzie
There are two products that are effective killing the nest; Amdro and Extinguish. Both are essentially the same, a poisoned bait that the workers carry back into the nest killing the population in a few hours.
However, there is never only one nest so if you poison a known site, about a month later the fire ants from other nests will recolonize the void.
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:07:58 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: Grizzled Bear
“Nuke it from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.”
You forgot the “dust off” then nuke it from orbit....
I think it was Aliens (the second one). It was either Sigorney or Michael Biehn (terminator) as Corporal Hicks??
Anyone know for sure? I think it has been used in other movies.
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:37:34 AM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
To: Daffynition
When I was a kid I wiped out a long standing red ant bed in our backyard with a magnifying glass popping individual ants. Of course, in those days one could devote the time to such a project.
Won’t work with fire ants. I’ve never seen anything like their population density. They basically are about the size of pissants, but if you disturb their beds thousands of them immediately respond to the threat. If you knock the tops off their mounds, you find the eggs directly below the surface along with thousands more fire ants guarding them. I’m not sure even napalm would work..
Amdro works usually to eliminate a mound, but it seems to me that they just move their mounds somewhere else. They really uglify a lawn.
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posted on
09/20/2009 10:54:53 AM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: Ole Okie
Amdro works usually to eliminate a mound, but it seems to me that they just move their mounds somewhere else. They really uglify a lawn.So do moles, I have a terrible mole problem now. Have tried poison to kill their food supply.
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posted on
09/21/2009 1:10:54 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Please God Save The United States From Barack Hussein Al-Obama. Amen.)
To: AxelPaulsenJr
Ever use highway flares?
Light the flare, push it into the hole and then look for smoke from other holes.
Once you seal all the holes, it is pretty deadly in there.....
Cheers,
knewshound
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posted on
09/21/2009 1:16:55 PM PDT
by
knews_hound
(Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd E. Clampus Vitus)
To: antivenom
Sounds like some bugs need antivenom ping!!!
To: neverdem
... of Auburn University in Alabama... War Eagle!!!
Or maybe War Decapitating Fly!
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