> From: Richard Drutchas <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help:Ant problem in Mating Nucs
> Date: Saturday, March 01, 1997 11:21 AM
>
> hey kirk the ants are actually wiping out two
frame nucs? I bought some
> hives from an old timer once that kept borax on
a solid inner cover to
> keep the ants off the top.
 
again I will reply to this subject. heres my
$0.04 on the subject
 
Fire ants as we call them here in texas are a
great pest. A beekeeper from my town was telling
me about how his hives got wiped out compleatly
during his two week vacation. I'd imagin that
they were already killing bees befor that.
 
The fire ant will not only kill bees but it will
then eat them. I have seen these bees take out
whole mounds of harvester ants (semi-harmless red
ants measuring about 4-5 mm long)
 
The problem with these ants is that they are so
small that bigger ants cannot defend against
them. Bees are precticly helpless adainst them
too.
 
These ants also hide under your bed at night
waighting for the monster in the closet to go to
sleep so they can eat him. hehehe :)