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"Dioclese" <NONE> wrote:
> "Omelet" <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:ompomelet-2564CE.11224421052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In article <kzNYj.1521$mh5.999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > jOhN <us271934SPAMNYET@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> > Better than fire ants... The fire ants are wiping out ground
nesting
> >> > birds such as meadowlark and bobwhite quail.
> >>
> >> The rasberry's are taking out the fire ants so I'm kinda guessing
they
> >> are not particularly benign ;-)
> >>
> >> The species they say is related in South America may kill animals by
> >> clogging their breathing passages.........not a good visual.
> >>
> >> Too many of any species is not a good thing.
> >
> > While I see what you mean, the bloody fire ants are already out of
hand.
> >
> > I used to do wildlife rescue.
> >
> > Fire ant fawns are not pretty...
>
> Ants in general do the cleanup duty of carc***** in drier areas of the
> country. I have seen carrion eating birds jumping wildly near some not
so
> fresh carc*****, then flying away. A closer inspection I saw fireants.
The fire ants KILL fawns, not clean them up after they die on their own.
I was talking about trying to save one still living that has several
thousand stings. :-(
>
> I tend to thing there is some relation****p between the very obvious
decline
> of harvester ants, and the fireant population. I do not see any horned
> toads any longer.
> http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/l-5314.html
>
> There may be similar implications with another species of ant roaming
the
> local area.
Yeah, but at least you can let the rasberry ants crawl on you.
I'd not try that with fire ants...
It all comes down to the lesser of two evils, kinda like Presidential
candidates. <g>
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