Quote from: tekla on September 03, 2011, 06:38:27 PM
build yourself a screened in bed

Sounds like a vacation in hell.  Crawl into your ant free cage at night while all around you the walls are moving.  Nope.  I don't like it.  Not one little bit.

So waking up with ants crawling all over your body is better?  Or do we just skip the trip down under?

I'm beginning to wonder if the people who sent criminals to the island penal colony also sent along a few critters to make things interesting.

From The Naked Jungle:

"You're talking about an enemy that's twenty miles long and two miles wide! That's forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it! Don't be a fool, Leiningen!!!"

Okay, I probably misquoted, but I'm too lazy to track down the scene.

  I have a unique experience with the fire ant.  I camped down in Florida 4 times and got stung 3 of those times.  The first time I got bit by one ant and it left an itchy welt that lasted 2 weeks.  The second was by a swarm up both legs when I got up and sat on my cot feet on the ground.  That time small red welts that lasted only 2-3 hours.  Third time, swarm up one leg, the ten minute burn, no welts whatsoever.  I've been warned it may be anaphylactic shock the next time. 
  Joelene

Some people really like those pesky creatures...

Quote from: Arch on September 03, 2011, 10:14:30 PM
From The Naked Jungle:

"You're talking about an enemy that's twenty miles long and two miles wide! That's forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it! Don't be a fool, Leiningen!!!"

Okay, I probably misquoted, but I'm too lazy to track down the scene.

I remember that movie, didn't one guy fall asleep in his boat and got eaten? Then the ants crossed the river on leaves? Damn getting itchy again
Cindy

Quote from: Joelene9 on September 03, 2011, 11:02:26 PM
  I have a unique experience with the fire ant.  I camped down in Florida 4 times and got stung 3 of those times.  The first time I got bit by one ant and it left an itchy welt that lasted 2 weeks.  The second was by a swarm up both legs when I got up and sat on my cot feet on the ground.  That time small red welts that lasted only 2-3 hours.  Third time, swarm up one leg, the ten minute burn, no welts whatsoever.  I've been warned it may be anaphylactic shock the next time. 
  Joelene

Unlikely, your immune response has changed from an inflammatory response to an adaptive. You have become desensitised. Which is good.

Cindy

Quote from: Julie Marie on September 03, 2011, 09:50:42 PM
So waking up with ants crawling all over your body is better?  Or do we just skip the trip down under?

I'm beginning to wonder if the people who sent criminals to the island penal colony also sent along a few critters to make things interesting.

Well South Australia was never a penal colony, it was free settled, but the fire ants are an import as are cane toads, fortunately we don't have either in SA at the moment. Cane toads were the classic mistake they were brought in to control some other critter, but they have no natural predators here so they just went wild and are everywhere in the northern parts of Aus.

You have to do the trip down under on day 'cos even with all of our too friendly critters it is a gorgeous place.

Cindy

Quote from: Cindy James on September 04, 2011, 02:06:26 AM
I remember that movie, didn't one guy fall asleep in his boat and got eaten? Then the ants crossed the river on leaves? Damn getting itchy again

One of the great B movies, with some terrific quotable lines...and Eleanor Parker is just fantastic in anything.

Who was the lead?  Didn't 'they' set fire to the bush and destroy all the ants, I think it is at least 30 years since I saw that. Thanks Arch for making me itchy again

Cindy

QuoteWho was the lead?

Charlton Heston, tall and grimy and glowering.

They beat the ants with sticks, burned them, and finally flooded them. Great fun.

Oh Thank you,

A Charlton Heston - B. It must be a better movie than we give credit for since I still remember seeing it and enjoying it, as you do as well .  Wonder why there hasn't been a remake? Brad Pitt would suit.

Cindy

But who could replace Eleanor Parker?

I like Heston in Secret of the Incas as well. Raiders of the Lost Ark was a shameful ripoff but a much better movie.

Ooh, we had better get back on topic...

Oh dear, I had never caught on to the HF = CH, and it is so obvious when you mention it. Same plots new stunts and thank goddess for CGG. Eleanor Parker was an actress and had a tried and true CV as an actress. CH was never an actor, I'm not sure where he came from (and no I'm not going to Google him.) I'm liking the discussion ,  The only one at the moment would be Resse Witherspoon. Meryl Streep would be awesome but too old, sadly. I'm struggling to think of good actors of either gender. Daniel Craig can act.  Female actors I'm lost for. May I suggest for many people reality TV has destroyed the concept of acting. People do not seem to differentiate acting and being a public fool/nuisance. As we know there is a difference.

Hugs

Cindy

Ant problems? Call in the French... They will gather them up, dip them in chocolate and serve them with wine, bread and cheese



*Sorry, I'm a messed up individual*

Anyone  who cannot tell her tampon from a boot is seriously worried.


Kiss and Thanks, Sis

Cindy

Put pieces of artificial sweetener in the house. The ants are attracted to sweet things, and they will eat the sweetener. Since the sweetener is about 100-800 times sweeter than normal sugar, they will eat incredibly much of it (thinking they just found the BEST FOOD EVER!!!1!!1one), so much so that they eat themselves to death.

Another way is to take a piece of cloth, tie a string around it, dip the cloth in syrup, and then drag it on the ground away from your house. They will follow the sweet scent of the syrup, and thusly walk away from your house. The concentration of sugar will make them make that syrup-path into their main path.