Posted on 10/02/2011 4:02:22 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a day, and then a fresh horde shows up, bringing babies. Stand in the yard, and in seconds ants cover your shoes.
It's an extreme example of what can happen when the ants — which also can disable huge industrial plants — go unchecked. Controlling them can cost thousands of dollars. But the story is real, told by someone who's been studying ants for a decade.
"Months later, I could close my eyes and see them moving," said Joe MacGown, who curates the ant, mosquito and scarab collections at the Mississippi State Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University.
He's been back to check on the hairy crazy ants. They're still around. The occupant isn't.
The flea-sized critters are called crazy because each forager scrambles randomly at a speed that your average picnic ant, marching one by one, reaches only in video fast-forward. They're called hairy because of fuzz that, to the naked eye, makes their abdomens look less glossy than those of their slower, bigger cousins.
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LOL um kay looks like I really missed out NOT!
On a buddy’s advice I got rid of a colony of wood ants that had been infesting a doorway in my home for a long time.
Just scatter a bunch of cornmeal around where they are. When they eat it, it swells up inside their little bellies and kills them.
Better yet, they take it home to all their friends and the queen. Haven’t seen them in two or three years.
This is the part where the noobie [me] says: AHH, I see. That clears that up.[scratching head returns to seat in back]
The EPA willban anything that benefits mankind. Though DDT has been vindicated the EPA ill not recognize this fact.
So, welcome bedbugs, mosquitos, ants and any other parasite back to the 21st century.
Ah, we, that is the US of A built the Burma Road. We didn’t ‘’bomb’’ it.
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Sure we did, right after the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor!/s
Banish ants from your pet’s food dish by wiping the floor under and around it with a cloth dipped in kerosene. Then stand the food dish in a larger dish containing water.
Keep ants from crawling up a picnic table by standing each leg in a small pan of water.
To kill ants, use a paste of equal parts of borax and confectioner sugar.
Mix mint apple jelly and boric acid for ant control (two tablespoons boric acid powder per 10 ounces of mint apple jelly).
Leave a few tea bags of mint tea near areas where the ants seem most active. Dry, crushed mint leaves or cloves also work as ant deterrents.
Keep a small spray bottle handy, and spray the ants with a bit of soapy water.
Mix peanut butter (six parts), brown sugar (one part), one-half teaspoon salt with boric acid (one part) for ant control.
For ant control, spray vinegar around door and window frame, under appliances, and along other known ant trails.
If ants are coming in through doors or windows, put a cinnamon stick across the path. They will not cross it.
****I think this is recommended for home use**** Boric acid in a combination with caustic remarks will be some deterrent, but any use of mint in jelly form, especially in combo with cinnamon sticks, spells HERPES, when you are out and ABOUT. And THEN the pain in your a$$ will match the embarrassment plastered on your face and the shame in your eyes.
I thought it wasn’t really you until I read the last paragraph.Next you will be posting the front of Betty Crocker’s cookbook stating how to dress for your husband when he arrives home and you’ve cooked a nine course meal all day.
I will be trying the spray vinegar around my window stuff.I wondered why the ants didn’t come in through the window cracks when I was cleaning the coffee pot out with vinegar.
...you’ve cooked a nine course meal all day...
Just make it minute rice. I'll add the gravy.
Sounds like a little vinegar in every crack will keep the ants out. Don’t know about Herpes though.
According to my big fat greek wedding movie windex works on herpes.
Has your wife tried nair?
You running a competition?
Juuussst kidding. Only on the dog. Weird. He looks just like me. When hezuh walkin away...
Yeah. Whatever. Only on the stuff that's visible.
gross I think you mean Venereal wait forget it
The doc prescribed a soothing, healing salve....and the shot was to prevent infection.
This episode taught me to watch where I walk with sandals on....no grassy knolls for me.
Leni
Yeah. That’s why I like you. One of the few that can tell the difference between horror and phantasm.
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