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Today's due diligence
On 9/5/2017 6:44 PM, T wrote:
On 09/04/2017 02:14 PM, George Shirley wrote: Those of you out there that don't have fire ants consider yourselves blessed. We're in the progress of pouring boiling water down our biggest pest in the gardens home. This fire ant village comes to the surface at various places around our raised gardens and the boiling water is one way to get rid of them. Most likely the ants are five to fifteen feet deep and have multiple queens who lay eggs continuously. Fire ants can really hurt you and your pets just by getting on you in swarms and bite you and inject something that will make you hurt for a while and leaves pustules. They will even make their own rafts if their area floods, the ant ball moves constantly to avoid drowning, they protect the queens and eggs as much as possible. Came here to Texas from ships coming into port from South America about the time I was growing up, probably mid-fifties, I have scars from getting into the !@#$%^ ants path as a teen out hunting and fishing or just running the woods for the hell of it. (lived close to large ports on the Gulf Coast) Nowadays they are every where in Texas. My lovely wife is putting gallons of boiling water down their exit hole and chortling while she does it. I just hope it works. George, scratching his legs again I heard somewhere that ants don't like vinegar.Â* You ever try that? Dunno, but I once learned that the German name for formic acid, Ameisensäure, is ant acid as that is where it was first discovered. Formic is stronger than acetic. |
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