09-18-2007, 05:54 AM
Thanks to all for your responses. Part of the joy of living in Hawaii is working outside and gardening. Some of my relatives live in rural eastern Texas. They are very careful where they walk on their property because of the full sized fire ants. In Hawaii, LFAs could take the joy out of some of those activities, but as Genxor says, "you deal with it..." Kapohocat, thanks for the tip about using oils to take the "bite" out of the ants.
The scary thing is that the newspaper article stated that Tommy Thompson, an entomology research associate for the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources said regarding LFAs: "When I'm done in mid-December, nobody's going to be working on this at all."
Hopefully, our govt reps will lobby for continued funding for his project.
Aloha - Cal
The scary thing is that the newspaper article stated that Tommy Thompson, an entomology research associate for the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources said regarding LFAs: "When I'm done in mid-December, nobody's going to be working on this at all."
Hopefully, our govt reps will lobby for continued funding for his project.
Aloha - Cal