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Post by rockjunquie on May 15, 2016 11:31:49 GMT -5
Are cow killers the same as cow ants? I'm assuming such. I saw them in Florida. Very large, furry, red and black. We avoided them like the plague.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 15, 2016 12:48:30 GMT -5
Texas Horned Lizards which used to be fairly common have almost been exterminated by fire ants and development. Their populations do seem to be fairly fragile. I have not seen a single one since I moved to Texas and even the harvester ants on which they prefer to feed are no longer common. Fire ants invade the nests of most reptiles and I'm thinking that probably why some of the turtles ( ie Box turtles) are gradually declining too. Always super sad to find a mama turtle sitting in a hole trying to lay her eggs while damn fire ants swarm all over her. Soft shells seem especially vulnerable and I have rescued several for such situations....Mel
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 15:29:10 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on May 15, 2016 15:46:42 GMT -5
Velvet Ant Yup, cow ant. I didn't know they were wasps. Cool. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 15:52:21 GMT -5
Velvet Ant Yup, cow ant. I didn't know they were wasps. Cool. I promise, you do not want to experience their sting... |
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Post by rockjunquie on May 15, 2016 17:18:40 GMT -5
@shotgunner- when we were kids hanging out in the palmettos, we hears stories of how they would cover cows, kill them and devour them in like an hour. Obviously stories, but it worked to keep us away from them!
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 17:24:57 GMT -5
Horned lizards fragile. I think a better biz for you is wasabi horseradish. Fresh tubers sell readily to high end sushi bars. Your warm weather and fresh clean water will grow it fast. thanks for the toad tips. If wasabi were a water plant. Otherwise watering is required. Watering terrestrials, a hassle. water chestnuts easy, used to do them. Yum. water cress another, but gets just a bit too hot here. Set up best for lotus roots, but they taste like a roll of paper towels. So very remote back here, cannabis would be safe. |
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Post by Sabre52 on May 15, 2016 17:25:16 GMT -5
We had big whitish fuzzy velvet ants back in Commiefornia too. Looked like that fight promoter, Don King?, having a bad hair day. Those boogers are equally nasty stingers. Oddly, used to encounter a lot of velvet ants in the ground while digging poppy jasper up at our Hunters Valley ranch.....Mel
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 17:30:37 GMT -5
Horned lizards fragile. I think a better biz for you is wasabi horseradish. Fresh tubers sell readily to high end sushi bars. Your warm weather and fresh clean water will grow it fast. thanks for the toad tips. If wasabi were a water plant. Otherwise watering is required. Watering terrestrials, a hassle. water chestnuts easy, used to do them. Yum. water cress another, but gets just a bit too hot here. Wasabi is aquatic www.realwasabi.com/photos/index.asp$160/kg |
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 17:37:48 GMT -5
thanks for the toad tips. If wasabi were a water plant. Otherwise watering is required. Watering terrestrials, a hassle. water chestnuts easy, used to do them. Yum. water cress another, but gets just a bit too hot here. Wasabi is aquatic www.realwasabi.com/photos/index.aspToo hot here Scott according to article. at that price I should give it a go. I should order some plants in. Ever heard of a broad headed skink ? Was with a bunch on crotch rockets back in my 20's in Florida. We were under influences in a bad way. Stopped at a rest area and behold, a foot long br headed skink dashed up feet in front of us and gobbled up an anole. Our minds were quite damaged by the incident. It was a viscous attack and made sounds as he devoured the poor lizard. Rarely see them in Georgia, darn common in Florida. |
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 17:49:50 GMT -5
Texas Horned Lizards which used to be fairly common have almost been exterminated by fire ants and development. Their populations do seem to be fairly fragile. I have not seen a single one since I moved to Texas and even the harvester ants on which they prefer to feed are no longer common. Fire ants invade the nests of most reptiles and I'm thinking that probably why some of the turtles ( ie Box turtles) are gradually declining too. Always super sad to find a mama turtle sitting in a hole trying to lay her eggs while damn fire ants swarm all over her. Soft shells seem especially vulnerable and I have rescued several for such situations....Mel I think or rich forests keeps fire ants in limited high sunlight open areas and do not present so much of a problem for reptiles. Thriving turtle populations. Box and aquatic. Frogs common. Anoles, fence lizards and skinks. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 20:08:41 GMT -5
Texas Horned Lizards which used to be fairly common have almost been exterminated by fire ants and development. Their populations do seem to be fairly fragile. I have not seen a single one since I moved to Texas and even the harvester ants on which they prefer to feed are no longer common. Fire ants invade the nests of most reptiles and I'm thinking that probably why some of the turtles ( ie Box turtles) are gradually declining too. Always super sad to find a mama turtle sitting in a hole trying to lay her eggs while damn fire ants swarm all over her. Soft shells seem especially vulnerable and I have rescued several for such situations....Mel I think or rich forests keeps fire ants in limited high sunlight open areas and do not present so much of a problem for reptiles. Thriving turtle populations. Box and aquatic. Frogs common. Anoles, fence lizards and skinks. Yeah, texas box turtles live in open country.... You never show pix of the native box turtles? |
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 21:31:15 GMT -5
Box turtles in Georgia @shotgunner ? Very common here. Most have yellow spots. Trying to remember, some with red or orange ??
I think red skin scales and are very rare as far as the ones I have found.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 21:32:18 GMT -5
Males have yellow orange red and red eyes. Females blah, just like humans  |
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 21:51:02 GMT -5
Males have yellow orange red and red eyes. Females blah, just like humans you ugly Indian gal, not blah  |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 21:59:30 GMT -5
She is solid. But also last week. I have been in demand lately...  Monkey biz  |
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Post by jamesp on May 15, 2016 23:08:52 GMT -5
Which one is Scott ? |
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Post by jamesp on May 22, 2016 9:15:43 GMT -5
Fire ants were a true ally to me in the aquatic plant business back when. In constructing quarter acre growing fields I under-layed them with geo-textiles at a fair cost before covering with gravel to block fire ant intrusion. Standard in this plant industry is to use .040" EPDM rubber in a wood box to hold water to grow aquatic plants in. Well, I had many curious visitors wanting to build growing facilities to compete with me. Including a couple of large Dutch operations moved into Georgia. They could have put me out of business in a year. i.e. Let's go purge the dumb southern boy for information and blow him out of the water. I showed them all my stuff and and omitted one little tid bit of proprietary information, the hidden geo-textile under-layment. They were in for a big surprise. EPDM that has sat on the ground without protection from fire ants LOL:  Only to find out that within a few months their crop was drying out from thousands of holes in their liners. So I love my fire ants. |
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Post by Sabre52 on May 22, 2016 15:29:09 GMT -5
Jeez, Scott, I love most critters but monkeys, mimes, clowns, and carnies, I hate them all. I'd sooner a five pound pile of horse apples on my shoulder than a "damn dirty monkey." Favorite line from a movie, ole Charlton saying " Get your hands off me you damn, dirty, ape!" *L*....Mel
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