Posted on 08/28/2017 10:38:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
One danger evacuees and first responders are dealing with along with the flooding in Houston is fire ants.
Islands of fire ants!
CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca tweeted a photo from Houston as the ants formed a protective island in the high water.
According to Orkin.com, fire ants can exist in colonies of up to 250,000 workers and will sting intruders repeatedly. Fire ants feed on animal or vegetable sources of food according to the web site.
No reports yet of anyone getting bitten by fire ants.
Tropical Storm Harvey continues to head back toward the Gulf of Mexico at a slow pace.
In its 10 p.m. CDT Sunday advisory, the National Hurricane Center reported that the storm still had sustained winds of up to 40 mph and is centered 20 miles east of Victoria, Texas, about 120 miles southwest of Houston. It continues to creep to the east-southeast at 3 mph.
That means it remains virtually stalled near the coast and continues to drop heavy rain on the Houston and Galveston areas. In the past 48 hours, numerous spots in the region have measured more than 25 inches of rainfall.
The hurricane center says Harvey’s center was expected to drift off the middle Texas coast on Monday and meander offshore through Tuesday before beginning “a slow northeastward motion.”
Don’t take a nap under the tree out in the back yard.
Ping.
Good idea. Put a few thousand in a flimsy paper container with a little rock and they’d splatter all over.
I was thinking some kind of spray or broadcasting device like a fertilizer spreader................
Will Houston get to send all the NOLA ‘refugees’ back home.
They will probably DEMAND to be returned now and New Orleans will pay them to stay while Houston pays them to leave.
Maybe load them all on those buses and ship them to CA.
Now FEMA can move all those ‘mobile homes’ to Texas.
Wouldn’t that be fresh water?
I guess I don’t know the locations of the military bases of the various services. I was trying to channel my inner R. Lee Ermey. He was a Marine but I think that he would yell at you regardless of military branch if you were loafing.
Bull sharks regularly travel into fresh water. I have heard they are caught quite often in fresh water in Florida.
Several times over the decades they have been spotted in the James river in VA during summer.
That would be good too.
I think lead is in the picture.
Nothing new. Happens after every hurricane and flood, and the news media panic.
“Throw in some Dawn.”
“If it wouldn’t contaminate the surface waters, posin/spray the little biting critters.”
Either that, or nuke the site from orbit, just to make sure.
No, crazy ants will make trouble for them.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rise-of-the-crazy-ants/
They have no way to stop crazy ants.
“I’ve tried these granular products for regular ants - after using the whole can I found no decrease in ants.”
Only in the red, white and blue parts:
I wasn’t loafing. I just was ‘t raking, at the moment. Even the guy that got showered in dirt and ants didn’t yell at me. I think he was impressed that I yanked the weed.
I wasn’t loafing. I just was ‘t raking, at the moment. Even the guy that got showered in dirt and ants didn’t yell at me. I think he was impressed that I yanked the weed.
We we’re all in olive drab. I hated wearing blues.
Yep, me too. I had islands of floating fire ants all over when we had flooding. I broke them apart with a stick, and they all drowned.
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