Re: Ants and anteaters
- To: William Glover
- Subject: Re: Ants and anteaters
- From: r*
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:36:17 -0700 (PDT)
I'd go for toads. Ants have always been a problem here (New Mexico
desert)--up to this year. This year, however, I have more toads than I
can shake a stick at it and is the first year I haven't had ants all over
the place (yesterday evening I took a moment to sit in my small patio
where I was quickly joined by my eight outdoor cats and seven huge, fat
toads--wish someone could have gotten a picture of us all sitting
together enjoying the cool of the evening). On the other hand, toads make
their beds in the potted plants, and I am kept busy going around poking up
ended plants back in the pots. My correlation of more toads and less ants
may be false, but it seems reasonable.
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, William Glover wrote:
> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:30:31 -0400
> From: William Glover <wmglover@caribsurf.com>
> To: Medit-Plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Ants and anteaters
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> >>Do ants have any natural enemies, other than anteaters?
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> Other species of ants to begin with, as well as ant-lions (myrmeleons),
> spiders, centipedes, frogs, toads, lizards, birds, monkeys, and even
> bears. The best friends of ants, of course, are picnics.
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> A good chemical control for fire ants - at least it works well in the
> tropics where fire ants are fierce as well as in season every day of the
> year - is Amdro granular fire ant insecticide, EPA registered in the USA.
> One pound will treat an acre and costs about $15.
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> >>OK - that got my attention - do anteaters eat anything besides ants ?
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> Ants in quantity having long been in short supply in New York City, even
> when I was a boy more than half a hundred years ago, the Bronx Zoo then
> kept giant South American anteaters alive for many years on a tasty diet
> of beaten eggs, raw hamburger meat, and cod liver oil.
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> William Glover
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> William Glover
> Mango Corners, Jones Estate
> NEVIS, West Indies (Antilles)
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