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On Feb 2, 10:32*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:10:44 -0500, Keith Nuttle





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On Feb 2, 6:21 pm, Tim wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkBd2p2piU


I noticeD that even in this weather they're still building tall dusty
cones in the cracks of my old concrete barn floor.


hmmm, i wonder if this is what's underneath?


Gasoline works great...even on fire ants....


You may wish to be carefull with gasoline in the barn floor.


Once I had a good idea to get rid of yelow jackets. *I was mowing the
yard and came across the hole in the ground for their nest. *Being a
good father of two little girls under 4, I knew I had to get rid of it.
*I dumped about a quart gas into the hole. *I mowed a few minutes more,
and decided more was needed. It occured to me the best way to insure
they were gone was to burn them out. *I touched a match to the hole and
fire shot out of the ground in several spots around the yard.
Fortunately there was no holes under or close to the house and no
children near any of the holes.


Kind of reminds me of those movies you see where they take high
pressure hoses to gopher holes. *:)

I ran into a bunch of ground hornets once - smacked me pretty bad and
I spent a day in the hospital on antihistimines to reduce the
swelling.

Them things had to go. *A friend of mine had a brother who was an
exterminator/pest control type. *He came over with this black spray
can - I have no idea what was in it, but wow - he sprayed the nest
from about ten feet back and those freakin' hornets melted.

I mean melted - very cool.

Damn ground hornets. *:)

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to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor
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I ran into a bunch of ground hornets once

Had the same thing happen while golfing, once. Hit a ball, and sliced
it off in the rough. While looking for it, I stepped on a ground Bee
Hive.... ran so dam fast, I cleared a four foot page fence in a single
bound.