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RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - ElysianWort - 01-05-2019
Just out of curiousity, where is the location of the free class in Hilo, Hilodiver? Wonder if it's the same as the info I have read online?
For me, the problem out here, this year, has been the over abundance of rain washing away the bait before it has had a chance to be consumed by the cursed LFA.
And terracore, you pretty much addressed this at the end of your last post but I was also questioning if the interaction of these two species would be the same as the link you posted. With the LFA being so much smaller than the lone fire-ant in the video.
Edited to add this:
The get worse part- some of the people dealing with the crazy ants are wishing for the fire ants to come back due to their penchant for destroying electronics.
Maybe you hadn't noticed but I did: The LFA's have this same tendency to destroy electronics. They seem to be a totally different ant from the classic fire-ant that the mainlanders have knowledge of. They seem much worse than the classic fire-ant. They absolutely love to crawl into area's with wires and electricity and cause problems. They would short out my neighbors connection from his shack to power pole with extension cords constantly. He wound up covering the connection area and having to spray Home Defense poison monthly to avoid this.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - hilodiver - 01-05-2019
Look up the Hawaii Ant Lab. You can sign up for a free class and also download all the info you need to make a proper gel bait. Any treatment you do needs at least 4 hours of dry weather to be effective. It costs me about 50 dollars to treat my property every 6 weeks so I always look for a dry weather window.
Aloha!
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - My 2 cents - 01-05-2019
There is another kind of fire ant here, or at least there was. I haven't seen them for a long time but they were here long before the LFA. Same color, a little bigger and faster moving. They make central mounds in the ground instead of multiple colonies spread about the way LFA do. I remember the bite being similar but they were much easier to control because of their central colonies and the way they carried the food/bait back to the nest instead of ingesting it first.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - SBH - 01-05-2019
If you ever find LFA or any ants inside your house I’ve found that Simple Green cleaner kills them instantly and is non toxic and environmentally safer.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - terracore - 01-05-2019
quote:
Originally posted by Obie
A few years ago I noticed that the parts of my yard that were infested with LFA's, had fewer coqui's.
So for coqui eradication I'm going to sell LFA's at Makuu !
Or better yet I will just drive up and down all of the roads in every sub-standard subdivision and use a blower system to sprinkle LFA's everywhere.
Strangely, this article suggests the opposite, that coquis control LFA:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sydney-ross-singer/little-fire-ant-problem-c_b_4819316.html
I guess you can take this as yet another example that rag only publishes lies and half truths.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - MarkD - 01-05-2019
Sydney Ross Singer - If I'm not mistaken this is the guy who 10-15 years ago prominently attacked all efforts to stop the spread of the coquis.
He launched some sort of coqui integration project proselytizing about welcoming the frogs into Hawaii's ecosystem. And he asserted that complaints about coqui noise disrupting Hawaii's formerly quiet, peaceful nights was people carping about nothing.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - My 2 cents - 01-05-2019
Coqui sanctuary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w3A6i4ehVg
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - Guest - 01-05-2019
quote:Not to ants, it seems!!!
Originally posted by SBH
Simple Green cleaner kills them instantly and is non toxic
Speaking Truth to Lies / Facts to Ignorance
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - Guest - 01-05-2019
quote:Amen!!!
Originally posted by terracore
[quote][i]
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sydney-ross-singer/little-fire-ant-problem-c_b_4819316.html
I guess you can take this as yet another example that rag only publishes lies and half truths.
Speaking Truth to Lies / Facts to Ignorance
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - Guest - 01-05-2019
Windex, use the ants for scrubbing.