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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] South Carolina Flooding
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:50:56 -0500
As you know, Charlie, hardly anything can kill them. Commercial ant poison doesn't seem to bother them.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 10/9/2015 1:43 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
  One of the odd things to come out of this weather event. Around here we
have a particularly nasty species of ant called Fire Ants. They were
introduced into Texas from South America back in the 1940's and over time
have spread all over the southeast. They are very aggressive and have a
nasty bite that forms a pustule that is slow to heal. Any hope that this
weather event would drown these suckers was dashed when someone saw this:


http://abc7.com/weather/ants-form-floating-island-to-combat-flooding-in-south-carolina/1021709/

Charlie

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