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The track record for government to deal with these kinds of problems is not very good.
How about we use our tax money for things like roads and schools. Once we get that right then we can look at something a little more complicated like trash and sewer....
Texan Moving to Puna on July 3rd 2008.
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The Wilder Side Of Hawaii
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C) FIRE ANTS
The devil is in the detail
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Fire Ants -- LFA has the greatest risk for shutting down nursery and agriculture industry, not to mention tourists. Very very very nasty critters that make land and buildings uninhabitable.
Jane
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1) Fire ants, 2) Coqui 3) Albezia, 4) Strawberry guava.
The frogs are bearable if they are not outside your window. Those fire ants are bad though. There might still be a chance to eradicate them. Probably not so with the frogs.
I heard that if you give the fire ants grits, they die. I meant to try that method, but just wasn't thinking grits when I ran into the Malama Market. I was thinking SPF 30.
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Fire ants definately. The others are nuisances, the ants can blind cattle and pets, and so many jerks keep dogs chained here.
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I Googled "fire ants, Hawaii" and found from the "HEAR" site, that the ants can NOT be eradicated - they have to treated over and over just to control them. Living in Arizona for 7 years, I learned a lot about the little b******s. They have a seriously PAINFUL sting.
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ABSOLUTELY FIREANTS [
!] We spent last weekend fixing our pump and some outlets because the ants had shorted them out [V] and they bite like mad especially tourists and food caked kids.[
] Plus they are dirty and eat the most vile of things.
Then the coqui. Forget the trees we may need them soon[^] then again erading the trees might create lots of jobs[8]
Hey how bout the gov pay us to get rid of our albezia and plant corn!
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Fire ants are truly the worst.
The best technique I've seen for nailing them was a backhoe mounted device that rammed a steel pipe way down deep into the nest, poured steam into the thing while running 240 current through the whole works, ala mega worm probe. I'm not kidding, and it doesn't seem too crazy. It would be one heck of a nest that will withstand all that.
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Make Jam out of the guava
charcoal out of the albizia
and convince the people on the mainland that pureed coqui is the cure for fat, wrinkes and e.d.
The devil is in the detail
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