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Bad Ant Karma!

Started by Julie Marie, June 18, 2011, 09:42:08 AM

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Cindy

I accidentally stood on a bull ant nest, they got up my jeans and I was bitten dozens of times. Very, very painful. Like being touched with a soldering iron for each bite.

Ants in Tassie? or are they inbred as well? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: (This is an Aussie joke and not offensive to Australians)

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Cindy
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justmeinoz

 :laugh: Even have 2 headed ones. 
Down side of Tassie is that like southern Victoria, they have Jack Jumpers.  Nasty little Bogan Ants that will even fight with ones from the same nest.    I have been desensitised to Bee stings so I should be ok if I do get stung.  People have been known to go into Anaphylaxis from them.  Why is our wildlife so venemous??
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Cindy

I have a colleague who is an expert on JJs. Foul little buggers. I had not realised they where in Tas!

Just for interest we have the deadliest of any creature but more people are killed by insects than any of the big buggers with the teeth. Sharks and snakes a few per year. Bees, ants, spiders = hundreds!!!!


Cindy
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Sandy

There was a Warner Bros. cartoon where Elmer Fudd was trying to have a 4th of July picnic and angered a nest of ants when he blew up a firecracker at the entrance of the ants.

The ants won...

-Sandy
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tekla

Australia has the most toxic wildlife of any continent, I don't know why, but the spiders are something else.
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gennee

V M suggested getting an anteater. Interesting idea but is it practical?


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Anatta

Quote from: Julie Marie on June 20, 2011, 01:36:40 AM
But if you simply lay out a dusting of diatomaceous earth, your problems will soon be over.  Insects like ants and roaches walk over the fine powder and it abrades their exoskeletons and kills them through dehydration.  It's kind of like sliding over broken glass.  And they can't build up an immunity.  Also they carry the stuff with them back to the nest.  More rolling around in broken glass.   :o

Kia Ora Julie,

::) It's true the mode of action of DE is to act like a "sponge", it absorbs the protective oily/waxy substance on the insect's cuticle...However unless one can actually coat the individual insect with the dust, they [in particular the Germany cockroach] will avoid it, they have a tendency to avoid any dusty areas because the dust [any dust] tends to clog/block their spiracles [breathing holes on the side of their bodies']...

When I first took an interest in urban pestology[I was living in Australia at the time and I was quite  fearful of what I didn't understand... So in order to over come this fear, I became an urban pestologist=studying vertebrae and invertebrate pest of the urban environment ], there were all these new synthetic insecticide on the market, companies had started to move away from the more natural slow acting "proven" products, but nowadays we have have come a full cycle where the likes of Boric acid and DE are now the "new old" new wonder products...


Basic entomology can be interesting and  fun,  :icon_geekdance:
but finding out how insects live, is not for everyone. :icon_help:

Some people have a phobia, about things that creep and crawl,  :icon_yikes:
but if they took time out to study them, they would have no fear at all.  :icon_rockon:

Metta Zenda :)
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Julie Marie

Quote from: Zenda on June 20, 2011, 03:26:03 PM
However unless one can actually coat the individual insect with the dust, they [in particular the Germany cockroach] will avoid it, they have a tendency to avoid any dusty areas because the dust [any dust] tends to clog/block their spiracles [breathing holes on the side of their bodies']...

So you circle the wagons.  Either circle the DE around their known nests or circle your house.  Problem solved.  And all those other exoskeleton critters won't cross the line either.  Now I won't have to clean up the crumbs.  I can leave them for when the cupboard is bare.
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