February 5th 2012
PART 2 treating wood Beehive boxes to prevent rot,decay. Bee hive wood pine boxes dipped in copper and beeswax coated for longer life.Help stop wood rot from water and weather or beekeeping pests like ants,wax moths and termites. Beekeepers Beekeeping equipment improvement, treatment of bee hive supplies. John Pluta, Milledgeville Georgia georgiabees.blogspot.com
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October 22nd 2011
Did you know that you could eat fire ants? Watch this segment with Andrea to find out one way.
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June 19th 2011
“FIRE ANTS” from AUSTIN TX. Making first appearance at KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL May 30, 2009. Ian Stewart, Fiddle. Victor Ziolkowski, Drums. Steven Campbell, Piano. Zeke Jarmon, Guitar. Guest Bassist!
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March 7th 2011
If you look closely at a beautiful Texas pasture, you can see a Texas sized problem that ranchers and farmers are dealing with all across this state. Fire ants! Visit tinyurl.com to see the rest of America’s Heartland: Episode 511. The Monsanto Company – www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.
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June 1st 2010
Narrated by Sir Jameson Glenlivet. From Wikipedia: The Red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), or simply RIFA, is one of over 280 species in the widespread genus Solenopsis. Although the red imported fire ant is native to South America, it has become a pest in the southern United States, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. There are also reports of ant hills in Macau, the former Portuguese enclave that borders the province of Guangdong. RIFA are known to have a strong, painful, and persistent irritating sting that often leaves a pustule on the skin.[1] In the 1930s, colonies were accidentally introduced into the United States through the seaport of Mobile, Alabama.[2] Cargo ships from Brazil docking at Mobile unloaded goods infested with the ants. They have since spread from Alabama to almost every state of the American South, from Texas to Maryland. Since the 1990s, infestations have been reported in California in the West and New Mexico in the Southwest, but probably via ship or truck (not overland) in the case of California.[1] In a similar way, the ants were accidentally introduced into Australia in 2001.[3] RIFA are more aggressive than most native ant species and have a painful sting. A person typically encounters them by inadvertently stepping into one of their mounds, which causes the ants to swarm up the person’s legs, attacking en masse. The ants respond to pheromones that are released by the first ant to attack …
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May 17th 2010
