"Phyllis Stone" > wrote in message
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> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>> Mark Thorson wrote:
> http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/strange...blem_2 730329
>>>
>>> http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/exotic_tx.cfm
>>>
>>> They attack and destroy beehives. So far,
>>> only in Texas, but as their range expands they
>>> may invade places where nice people live. :-)
>> It figures they would show up in Houston area first, one of the biggest
>> ports in the country.
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> I live in Houston and we seem to have every kind of ant you can imagine.
> Out on the sidewalks in front of our house long streams of ants are coming
> and going in single files. Then there are the other ants who go helter
> skelter in no apparent order. I think those may be the rasberry ants. The
> fire ants build mounds in the yard and give you very hurtful stings when
> you mow the lawn and get too close. Good times.
>
Get some food grade diotamaceous earth. Sprinkle on ant hills. they will
dry up and go away.


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