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2009-07-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2009-07-02 11:53|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-02 13:43|| 2009-07-02 13:43|| Front Page Top

#2 These ants are also really hard to kill. Each nest has dozens of queens, and they don't take bait.

Posted by Iblis 2009-07-02 14:06|| 2009-07-02 14:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, I'm not surrendering to 'em. I'll get me a can of Raid and make them ants cry "Uncle!"

Posted by Mike 2009-07-02 15:09|| 2009-07-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 1/2 cup of gasoline works every time, just pour in one place at the center of the hill, the fumes sink through the hill and kill everything, including the queen, ants just freeze where they stand.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-07-02 16:23|| 2009-07-02 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't want to sound too much like an advertisement but we found terro works pretty well. My own theory is they really like the kind of suburbs they find in California because we water our lawns and shrubbery. They cultivate other pests like mealy bugs and aphids on the shrubbery. They dig in under driveways, sidewalks and concrete slab foundations. I'm not sure they could hack the natural habitat here because it's too dry and the native vegetation is too resistant.

Spraying them with Raid is very gratifying though. That way you get to watch them die. I like to spray one hole and then wait and watch. Almost always they'll come streaming out of a back door carrying their little eggs. That's when the queens come out too. Then I spray again. Die you little mofos!!!

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-02 17:54|| 2009-07-02 17:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Researchers in Japan and Spain led by Eiriki Sunamura of the University of Tokyo found that Argentine ants living in Europe, Japan and California shared a strikingly similar chemical profile of hydrocarbons on their cuticles. Don't tell Al, they'll get blamed for Golbal Climate Change/Warming

Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-07-02 19:38|| 2009-07-02 19:38|| Front Page Top

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