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‘Island Of Fire Ants’ Discovered In Houston Flooding
CBS DFW ^ | August 27, 2017 10:41 PM

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.”


TOPICS: US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: fireants; flood; houston; hurricaneharvey; insects; wildlife
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To: Skooz

Don’t take a nap under the tree out in the back yard.


101 posted on 08/28/2017 1:18:05 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: headsonpikes

Ping.


102 posted on 08/28/2017 1:18:54 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Good idea. Put a few thousand in a flimsy paper container with a little rock and they’d splatter all over.


103 posted on 08/28/2017 1:20:11 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

I was thinking some kind of spray or broadcasting device like a fertilizer spreader................


104 posted on 08/28/2017 1:24:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


105 posted on 08/28/2017 1:24:31 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: Red Badger

106 posted on 08/28/2017 1:24:33 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: seawolf101

Wouldn’t that be fresh water?


107 posted on 08/28/2017 1:26:16 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: higgmeister; gundog

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.


108 posted on 08/28/2017 1:41:06 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: AppyPappy

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.


109 posted on 08/28/2017 1:44:08 PM PDT by oldvirginian (I must've made a wrong turn at Albuquerque!)
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To: Red Badger

That would be good too.

I think lead is in the picture.


110 posted on 08/28/2017 1:54:33 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Red Badger

Nothing new. Happens after every hurricane and flood, and the news media panic.


111 posted on 08/28/2017 2:19:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: AppyPappy

“Throw in some Dawn.”


I was thinking more in the direction of napalm, or at least borax mixed with ant poison - repeatedly.


112 posted on 08/28/2017 2:36:28 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: DaveA37

“If it wouldn’t contaminate the surface waters, posin/spray the little biting critters.”


Uh, even if it would....

Either that, or nuke the site from orbit, just to make sure.


113 posted on 08/28/2017 2:37:40 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Zuriel

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.


114 posted on 08/28/2017 2:41:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: 1Old Pro

“I’ve tried these granular products for regular ants - after using the whole can I found no decrease in ants.”


That’s because you didn’t soak the granular products in oil, and then light them on fire once applied to the nest. I’m pretty sure that this is in the instructions. :>)


115 posted on 08/28/2017 2:43:19 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Sacajaweau
"....looks like fire ants are pretty common in parts of Texas."

Only in the red, white and blue parts:


116 posted on 08/28/2017 2:47:32 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: CommerceComet

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.


117 posted on 08/28/2017 3:12:26 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: CommerceComet

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.


118 posted on 08/28/2017 3:12:28 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: higgmeister

We we’re all in olive drab. I hated wearing blues.


119 posted on 08/28/2017 3:14:25 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: AFreeBird

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.


120 posted on 08/28/2017 3:27:34 PM PDT by kara37
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