Here's one we havn't herd about in the south.
Electric ants found in Cairns.:eek:
Check your wood pile fellas.
http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/health/18498.html
cheers
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Here's one we havn't herd about in the south.
Electric ants found in Cairns.:eek:
Check your wood pile fellas.
http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/health/18498.html
cheers
they're supposed to be pretty much under control, or I might be thinking of the crazy ants?
:eek: :eek: crazy ants :eek: :eek: Oh no there's more.
How do they get on with cane toads?
cane wee get them to sort each other out?
Sorry ants don't play golf or drive cars:D :D
cheers
Green ants, fire ants, bull ants, white ants, black ants - I know that Oz is one bloody great anthill, but is an electric ant? Will it cut mortices?
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Originally Posted by TassieKiwi
G'day,
Those Electric Ants are members of the Tramp ant family, so Cliff ans Mick you'd better watch out they don't find your sheds, otherwise they could be begging to borrow your drill and never return it. :D
So the answer is obvious. Collect the ants and place them in a 44 gallon drum. Connect elctrodes to the drum (Kiwis could use No 8 fencing wire for this, and may get away with a Willow Chilly bin) then connect the drum via a strap connected to a walking machine. Have SWMBO walk on the tread mill, thus rattling the ants, which in send current to the electrodes and thence to your shed. Care will have to taken as to whether the ants are +vely or -vely charged or the whole system will have to be repolarised. Wonder if they come in 3 phase??
Regards, Uh...
Rob
Bugger, I think I've got them in our house. :( Smithfield (site of infestation) is just down the road and I've my grocery shopping there recently. It's concievable that they'e hitchhiked in with my shopping. Coincidently I've just sold my jointer to the entymologist at DPI so I'll catch a few of the blighters and give him a call.
Mick
Be nice if the electric ants, fire ants and cane toads could take each other out of the gene pool. If they're anything like fire ants then erradicating them will be interestings.