Beautiful picture of horses. It really caught my eye. Several of those mares are heavy with foals. You can sure see their sides bulging. What a beautiful collection of colors, and with the green grass, blue water and gray sand in the background, the picture just looks magical.
Home > Managing Fire Ants > How can I tell...?How can I tell if I have fire ants?
You can tell you have fire ants if....
You see a mound of fluffy worked soil,
particularly a few days after a heavy rain.
The mound has no opening in the center like most ant mounds. Red imported fire ants leave and enter the mound housing the colony through underground tunnels.
Undisturbed mounds in pastures can reach 18 inches
in height, but most mounds in turfgrass areas are usually just a few inches tall. When you shovel into the colony's mound of soil you see white objects. This is the brood - the eggs, larvae and pupae of developing ants.
Fire ants are small, only about 1/8" to 1/4" long. Variation in size is a distinguishing
characteristic of imported fire ants. Many other ant species are uniform in size.
When you disturb the mound, dozens to hundreds of reddish-brown worker ants crawl up vertical surfaces (like grasses and other objects) on and around the mound. Few native ants charge up vertical surfaces.
If you get stung it feels like being burned. A day or
so later, the imported fire ant's unique venom forms a white fluid filled pustule or blister at the red sting site that is very characteristic - only fire ant venom causes this symptom!
Worker ants bite (with mandibles) and sting (with stingers) aggressively and repeatedly.
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Yikes! I sure don't want to see one of these on my front lawn...the regular, everyday variety of local ants are annoying enough. What worries me is the look of the person's wrist with those nasty bites on it. Wow! for being so small, they are quite an annoying pest. Undisturbed mounds up to 18 inches high! Ridiculous!! Yet the ants are only 1/8" to 1/4" long. Very tiny!
The stings feel like burns. They fill with white pus. Ants can both bite and sting repeatedly. No thank you. Don't come to my yard.
Previously thought to belong to the dog species, the thylacine has now been shown to belong to the cat species. Although it's had and jaws resemble wolves, its body is a cat's body, and it hunted like cats do. Sadly the last of its kind died off in a zoo in 1936. It was driven to extinction by the introduction of the dingo to its natural habitat, Australia.The thylacine was a marsupial with a pouch that opened to the back.
Okay this is just too cute. The guinea pig under the dog's arm is especially adorable. I love the light yellow puff ball guinea in the front. It looks so soft and cuddly I just can't resist. And the brown one in the back looks like it wants to go under the dog's arm too. How cute!
Wow! I could just live in this room! I could just lie on the floor and smell and feel the perfect natural wood. Absolutely nothing beats that! The quality and craftsmanship are not surpassed anywhere else.
One of the beautiful things about hardwood floors is how they alleviate allergy sources for chronic allergy sufferers.
Well this clip is just the cutest ever. This little 1 1/2 year old guy was signed to a symbolic "professional contract" after skillfully kicking 3 footballs in a row right into his toy basket. This video got almost a million hits off You tube after his father posted it. What a great little guy. It would be interesting to see where he is in 20 years? Maybe a professional football player or who knows - something totally unrelated like a baker or something. What a cute little fellow though!
What a beautiful little bird. This little bee-eater catches wasps, hornets, and especially bees in mid-air. Maybe it likes honey bees best. Ahhhhh... that sweet honey! Well I don't know but I do know that the little guy is very cute. The colorful markings are very unique and I like how the markings over the eyes form a cute little mask with the nose. And the green wings too.
