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More hills

More gratuitous hill photos from yesterday

of course the weather is rarely like this!


This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am and is filed under Muscle routine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “More hills”

  1. Boycott Hollywd Commies Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Why do I have more ant hills than any of my neighbors.?
    Red biting ants. Bizillions of hills on my acre.

    I think they are heat seeking too, cause they always find my ankles. I spray their hills away, but it doesn't work.

  2. Answer Diva! Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    It sounds like you have fire ants. Those can be really nasty. Try pouring boiling water onto the mounds.
    References :
    http://www.fireant.net/Control/index.php

  3. aswkingfish Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    If you have more ant hills then your neighbors then your neighbors have probably used a spray or treatment that has caused them to migrate into your yard. Try to ask them if they did and what they used. You need to treat your yard as a whole, not just the hills.
    References :

  4. aggylu Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    I'm sorry for your painful problem. One way pests can get out of control is using a wide-range pesticide over a large area. It works like this: You succeed in killing all the bugs in your yard. Now you have this big, open territory. One species, usually the most prolific in the area, can now move in and have no competition for food/space/water.
    They always find your ankles because they are motion- and CO2 -seeking. They climb the first vertical thing they come to when alarmed and begin biting.
    Boiling water should help, but carrying bizillions of gallons out to your yard doesn't sound practical. There's an 'ant nerve agent' called spinsosad made from bacteria that should be easier to apply. This link lists some of the brand names it is sold under. http://www.extension.org/faq/1110
    Also, if I had bizillions, I would contact a local extension office and try to be included in a study. There's this wasp that parasitizes the fire ants, actually makes their heads blow up (wouldn't that be satisfying?) and lots of entomologists are trying it out now. Here's a link for a university study in Texas
    http://agnews.tamu.edu/stories/ENTO/Sep1898a.htm
    References :

  5. pixieotr Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    sounds nasty. I have 2 recipes to kill ants.

    #1 add 2 cups sugar to 2 cups boiling water, stir to disolve, add 3 tablespoons boric acid [toxic so be careful] and mix well. set out in jar lids around ant hills.

    #2 add 4 tablespoons bacon grease and 4 tablespoons corn meal, mix well. add 2 tablespoons bakin powder and 3 packages dry yeast [ the kind you make bread with ] mix well and set around ant hills

    either one, they eat, carry back to the nest and feed the queen, which kills the nest.

    at the beginning of summer, I had ants EVERYWHERE. we just bought this property and there was food trash all over the yard when we moved in. now we don't have any ants
    References :

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