The latest issue of Discover magazine has a very interesting article on the use of molten zinc to take casts of ant nest architecture. One of the more innovative uses of casting technology.
Earle Rich Mont Vernon, NH
Hi Earle - My brother who lived in the Mojave Desert had been doing this for years. He built a portable furnace to melt aluminum. Carried it in the trunk of his car and drove to desert sites. One time he poured 15 pounds of molten aluminum, let it cool and started digging but never found it. Presumably that deep. Another time (all alone) this helicopter circled above him and came down to investigate, They were County Cops and figured it was connected to drugs or he was burying a body. The ants build a series of rooms which look like ming trees when turned upside down and fastened to a wooden base - George
This is kind of hard on the ants isn't it?
Red Rider
One would think so. Poetic justice if they're fire ants, though.
R, Tom Q.
--Hey, would this work for gophers? :-)
Anhydrous ammonia for gopher holes, it's great for the lawn as well :)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:31:48 -0600, "Dave Keith" pixelated:
Downwind, the surviving neighbors might dispute that, Dave.
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- Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it? -
Yeah but you have to steal it from a meth lab!
Or a truck driver.
A while back, a relative, poured some anhydrous on a dollar bill. It shrank 20% or more, permenantly. I had it for a while, but misplaced it.
On 22 Oct 2003 15:34:51 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@localnet.com (Beecrofter) pixelated:
So much the better. They shouldn't have it anyway.
- Metaphors Be With You -
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:31:48 -0600, "Dave Keith" wrote something ......and in reply I say!:
One guy here in OZ was using bottled gas. Simply fill the (rabbit) warren and light the fuse.
It's funny what public opinion can do. It got stopped on cruelty grounds, although I have to say that rabbit traps, ripping up the burrows with a multi-tyne ripper, or using Calesi(sp?) Virus or myxomatosis hardly seem "kind" from what I have seen.
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