janice trivia, no exaggeration: When a river floods, fire ants cling onto one another and go with the flow so they can migrate as a nest to a new spot. An old man told me when he grew up in Elba Alabama a big flood came and his parents owned a store downtown so they all gathered with many townspeople on the second floor as the river broke some dike and came roaring through downtown. It went on all day and he said he saw globs of fire ants as big as automobiles floating down mainstreet.
I just kept thinking of that over and over when that woman we rescued stali and svertla from told us how Stali was a "real stinker" when the river flooded and came through the little roundpen they were kept in and was "up to their chins" and how traumatic it was for HER to go out there and try to get them out. "I didnt even own a halter or leash!" she said, just still so upset that those horses had been such a HUGE inconvenience for her "I had to go out in my nightgown!" she cried. I'm sorry, but no river floods these days without you knowing about it days in advance... I still want to burn her house down or HEY, this would be cool, if I could somehow find a way to fill an automobile size container with fire ants and while she's sleeping at night just open it so they will fall out and swarm around her in her bed... (when even one fire ant bites its like burning fire and you get a little sore there that takes days to heal) i think in hell she will be in the fire ant corner along with ted bundy and Hitler. but maybe the water moccasins and alligators floating thru ate the fire ants. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
