RE: (TFT) Hymenopteran Version --> Floating fire ants.

["rsmith" <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

>In July 02 we flooded extremely badly at the lake I saw mats of 
>fire ants from quarter size to small vehicle size. It took several 
>hundred ants to make a quarter size floating mat I cant begin to 
>imagine how many it took for the large rafts. When these mats hit 
>shore the ants would just swarm the shoreline. It wasn't a good 
>idea to walk around the lake for about a week after the water went 
>down.
>
>...
>
>Robert Morger
>Boerne, TX
>rmorger@2ev1.net

	Did you say it took several hundred ants
to make a mat the size of a quarter?  A quarter 
dollar???

	How small is a fire ant, less than one mm
in length?

	Rick
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