AAAAGGGHH! There is this mound of dirt that looks like a nest of some sort.....in my garden. My husband asked me what it was...like I would know. I thought it was a huge fire ant mound until he showed me the hole dug close to it.
Nightmare city.
The Terminix guy was just here on Thursday and he always looks for bee/wasp hives and ant mounds to destroy so it basically appeared over the weekend.
I called Terminix and they say it sounded like Cicada killers......wasps that eat Cicadas. That is a good thing because Cicadas are bad, but that nest needs to be somewhere else because I am not going anywhere near that part of the garden with a bunch of female wasps pulling paralyzed Cicadas in to lay eggs on. The damn larvae eat this Cicada live.....its like a freaking horror movie in my front yard. The females sting. The males dont and they guard the nest....but what good is that. A male who cant sting to defend guarding the nest...HEEEELLLLOOOOOO.
Just venting....
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I'm sorry Melt! The wasps are taking over the world! I saw a 3 inch wasp in my backyard, and was going to call SU. But then I thought, I like living in my hole-less house.
The Terminix guy came by. He said that there is no activity that he can see and that been they are burrowed deep and considering that they are not a danger to us or to our grass....just leave them alone. They are actually killing Cicadas which are bad.....I looked at some pictures of these things and how they drag a paralyzed cicada to their mound......scary Godzilla looking Mothra stuff.
YUCK!
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foxfyre wrote: I'm sorry Melt! The wasps are taking over the world! I saw a 3 inch wasp in my backyard, and was going to call SU. But then I thought, I like living in my hole-less house.
Hey.... that load of fire works I bought home done the trick...... 30 THOUSAND POUNDS....
Sure the neighbor hood looks like a war zone.... but no ant/wasp to be found....
foxfyre wrote: I'm sorry Melt! The wasps are taking over the world! I saw a 3 inch wasp in my backyard, and was going to call SU. But then I thought, I like living in my hole-less house.
Hey.... that load of fire works I bought home done the trick...... 30 THOUSAND POUNDS....
Sure the neighbor hood looks like a war zone.... but no ant/wasp to be found....
Yeah ...that would work .....I can spend a little time in jail as my house is repaired from the damage. The Homeowners Nazi Association wont have any of that in our community, afterall. We cant even have plants that are poisonous to the endangered critters that live over here.
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foxfyre wrote: I'm sorry Melt! The wasps are taking over the world! I saw a 3 inch wasp in my backyard, and was going to call SU. But then I thought, I like living in my hole-less house.
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The Terminix guy came by. He said that there is no activity that he can see and that been they are burrowed deep and considering that they are not a danger to us or to our grass....just leave them alone. They are actually killing Cicadas which are bad.....I looked at some pictures of these things and how they drag a paralyzed cicada to their mound......scary Godzilla looking Mothra stuff.
YUCK!
Ooh, do you have any pictures that you can post?
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The Terminix guy came by. He said that there is no activity that he can see and that been they are burrowed deep and considering that they are not a danger to us or to our grass....just leave them alone. They are actually killing Cicadas which are bad.....I looked at some pictures of these things and how they drag a paralyzed cicada to their mound......scary Godzilla looking Mothra stuff.
YUCK!
Ooh, do you have any pictures that you can post? Oh,like I could even post anything of I had pictures. I found some pictures online when I did a little research on cicada killers....they are very ugly.
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Buttercup wrote: I'll see if I can find some. Someone sent me a video today of a snake regurgitating a whole hippo. It was so incredibly gross.
That's a big snake...or at least he thought he was if he ate a whole freakin' hippo.
I have only seen a corn snake eat a mouse when I too Biology in high school; I could have earned extra points by feeding the snake(a corn snake named Barbara), but I refused to do so claiming that it would be an insult to my family name to torture an animal. The nun who taught the class smiled at me and picked someone else ....I was disgusted, yes,but ever so amused by the ability of this skinny snake to strangle the mouse ans swallow the damn thing whole. I would have to say that that is the day that sparked my interest in Biology beyond growing bean sprouts in a cup and watching Wild Kingdom.
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It was fascinating, yet repulsive. It was a baby hippo, but a hippo nonetheless. In my classes, I don't recall ever having to feed one live animal to another but I've dissected cow eyes, cow hearts, fertilized eggs (which stopped me from eating eggs for a year), fetal pigs, frogs, and cats. And I attended but could not participate in a human gross anatomy class (human cadavers).
-- Edited by Buttercup at 09:34, 2006-08-24
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Buttercup wrote: It was fascinating, yet repulsive. It was a baby hippo, but a hippo nonetheless. In my classes, I don't recall ever having to feed one live animal to another but I've dissected cow eyes, cow hearts, fertilized eggs (which stopped me from eating eggs for a year), fetal pigs, frogs, and cats. And I attended but could not participate in a human gross anatomy class (human cadavers).
-- Edited by Buttercup at 09:34, 2006-08-24
The cow eyes really freaked me out...all that fluid in it.
When I was in college; I briefly toyed with the idea of getting a degree in Kinesiology. I took an anatomy class that was geared more toward the movement part of the anatomy rather than just basic A&P which I took and loved. We had to attend a cadaver lab and I was fascinated. I took the class with my boyfriend at the time and he was pretty grossed out, which I thought was funny. I chose not to particpate in any cutting, but I did watch and hold a lung that belonged to a smoker. After that episode, I didnt hold any other organs.....Jimminy, it fell apart in my hand. Compared to a healthy lung ...the smokers lung was basically ash.
Hmm, Butter bones...we have something in common.
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Buttercup wrote: It was fascinating, yet repulsive. It was a baby hippo, but a hippo nonetheless. In my classes, I don't recall ever having to feed one live animal to another but I've dissected cow eyes, cow hearts, fertilized eggs (which stopped me from eating eggs for a year), fetal pigs, frogs, and cats. And I attended but could not participate in a human gross anatomy class (human cadavers).
-- Edited by Buttercup at 09:34, 2006-08-24
The cow eyes really freaked me out...all that fluid in it.
When I was in college; I briefly toyed with the idea of getting a degree in Kinesiology. I took an anatomy class that was geared more toward the movement part of the anatomy rather than just basic A&P which I took and loved. We had to attend a cadaver lab and I was fascinated. I took the class with my boyfriend at the time and he was pretty grossed out, which I thought was funny. I chose not to particpate in any cutting, but I did watch and hold a lung that belonged to a smoker. After that episode, I didnt hold any other organs.....Jimminy, it fell apart in my hand. Compared to a healthy lung ...the smokers lung was basically ash.
Hmm, Butter bones...we have something in common.
Indeed we do have something in common. Gross things, of course.
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Discussion of Bowels is ok, but not "the other stuff" OK
I can deal with that.
Speaking of bowel movements; I am curious about the bowel movement of a snake that eats a baby hippo for lunch without spitting it up. It cant be pretty or small. Talk about mega stretchy orifices...US of A should be so lucky, huh? HAH.......this should be at TOP so he can see it.
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oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. 
