Posted on 03/27/2014 6:43:30 AM PDT by listenhillary
This is one horror film plot that may be all too real: Billions of voracious ants are about to descend on the Houston area, destroying entire homes and anything else that gets in their way.
Rasberry Crazy Ants, even more destructive and mobile than their angry cousins, fire ants, are just weeks away from descending on the largest city in Texas. Since 2008, the ants, which entomologists believe came to Texas from South America aboard a cargo ship in the 1930s, have expanded their presence to 27 counties from just eight. Once in a home, they zero in on electrical systems, chewing through insulation and causing short circuits and general havoc.
“I’ve been in houses where every time you took a step you’d literally be stepping on thousands of ants with each step,” exterminator Tom Rasberry told FoxNews.com.
The hairy, reddish-brown ant is named after Rasberry because he was the first one to spot the insect in a Houston suburb in 2002. The ant, also known as the Tawny Crazy Ant, is even known to fight the fierce-stinging fire ant, another Texas scourge. Dormant until late April, Rasberry Crazy Ants thrive as temperatures heat up, prompting fears of a new advance in the coming weeks.
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“I just lost my appetite for Breakfast”
But Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Have the ants for lunch!
???? You have the right person? What's $159? The last Malathion I bought was $7.95 a pint for 50% concentrate
The hi powered laser is $159.
I hate that too... but, I can jump!
This is the version of the Boll Weevil song we learned in Texas, as school children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqi8mXXVeGE
This version of the Boll Weevil song was number 2 on the charts in 1962.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YffLGzIlHwY
You got those old-time clock radios that tick?
From the musical "1776":
[John Adams complaining to God over a do-nothing Congress:]
A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?
grits works.
This is how to kill fire ants.
I’d be willing to bet that DDT would wipe them out!!
Over n Out. Active ingredient is fipronil, which also kills termites. One good application on a yard will last for at least a year.
Pest control guy told me this a couple of years ago. I tried it, and it works.
Whatever I can pick-up for cheap at the resale shop.
Remember those old clocks with the flipping numbers?
Thanks, I didn’t pay attention to what it was but it sure works. Like you said, one application and they are evidently all dead over night. I have never found anything that works like it. I didn’t know it also killed termites. That’s really good to know. Then my wife just told me that it’s what’s in the flea and tick stuff she puts on the dogs.
Remember those old clocks with the flipping numbers?
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Yep...ala Groundhog Day! If you accidentally went too fast past the time, you had to flip through all the way around, again. I think this was the style of my first alarm clock ;)
Those giants Big Bug movie were awesome and still great to watch. There is not enough RAID to kill those buggers. lol
Not enough RAID... but I still have some old giant clown shoes laying around, and I’ve NEVER met the bug that could stand up to being slapped with a giant shoe....
Bring it.... :^)
I have heard that the EPA is taking fipronil off the market, so read the label. Newer production, as I understand it, is using a less effective chemical.
Why you’re just a youngster, aren’t you?
I grew up on that stuff. Loved it, too.
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