Posted on 07/14/2014 2:56:52 PM PDT by Biggirl
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Carpenter ants?
Dang tent sales bought g ma a car
Good move. That scale will kill your plants by sucking the life out of them, and at a certain point of infestation, will become irreversible and fatal.
Shes a lucky lady!
I was gonna say......”Carpenter AUNTS” wear steel-toed boots ;-)
I’ve heard the term used, ‘honey ants’, but I don’t know what exact subfamily they belong to. They are fascinating and actually mimicked by other insects, in very complex relationships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant#Relationships_with_other_organisms
That’s why I corrected it!
I heard carpenter ants kill trees so I had the pest people take em out. Wanted to make sure they weren’t ants saving the tree.
Just wanted you to know I was watching ;-) LOL
They do; eat right into the heartwood (cambium) and interrupt water/nutrient supplies from the root system. You can see the sawdust piles below the bore holes from their destruction, and usually by then, the real damage is done to a tree’s guts.
Funny thing. She said no, no, no, no !
I said but,Im makin the payments
She said, YES,YES,YES
Well you know what they say..........”Money makes you cuter” ;-) LOL!!!!!
I am guessing she is thrilled for both the car and for the source of the payments....may you both enjoy (I was gonna ask if the car had a stick....but Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I dont wanna know LMAO
Carpenter ants also weaken the tree’s structure, causing branch and limb failures, and can essentially hollow-out a trunk over time. When I was cleaning-up Dad’s and his neighbors’ yards after the storms last week, many of the older Oaks, Elms, Sycamores, Pears and Maples dropped a lot of debris which showed clear signs of carpenter ant damage, plus some dry-rot areas.
If the Jap Bloodgood Maple (Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’) is the same one you showed me pics of last fall, behind the patio, it is worth spending some serious money on to preserve it.
Just watch out for all the extra ‘programs’ the arborist might (good ones will identify a specific problem and a remedy) try to up-sell you to. The commissions can be lucrative, so if you’re not sure, feel free to run them by me to help you evaluate the worthiness. I’d also need pics of the problem and a scan copy of his report, if possible.
I can give you my personal email so you don’t have to run the docs thru FR, if you prefer. Glad to help out.
Don’t know much about ants beyond the continuing battle with the fire ants we have here. The past couple of days they have been coming into the house and crawling about on my bed. Everything washed and raid applied, but I am a bit jumpy about feeling things crawl on my skin. There are some strays about.
Great fun for kids (and their adult parent, I hasten to add) was to dig a shovel full of anthill from one hill, and a shovelfull from another...then dump em on the opposite ant hills and watch the war erupt!
(Simple things amuse me when I am in the northwoods at the lake ;-)
No stick, her ole car was stickless
Her new car is equally stickless
There is a plethera of stickless aboundinw
WHich demonstrates my point that....there are VERY few women left that know how to drive a stick
LMAO
Lesbians can
Hell, they can drive a tractor
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