Fleas... I'm a magnet.

[Janet Baraclough]

The message from Jim contains these words:

Don't colour over the lines, Jim.

Janet

[Billy]

Well the troll would like to know if that is a threat from an un-American?

[Jim]

with the british having colour long before americans got color you'd most likely have more experience with keeping the colour between the lines.

[enigma]

Billy wrote in news: [e-mail] ct.net.au:

standing water is entirely different than a pond. standing water would be the stuff caught in old tires, or possibly a rain barrel. it's water that isn't part of an ecosystem (no frogs, no fish, no other insect larvae, possibly algae but no other plants)

mosquito fish are too small to eat dragonfly larvae. in fact, they're likely to be eaten *by* the dragonfly larvae :) mosquito wigglers are tiny (but my chickens love them). dragonfly larvae get much larger, up to just over an inch long (depending on the type of dragonfly obviously). damselflies, otoh, are what 'ant lions' (doodlebugs) turn into. young water boatmen & watermelon seeds (i should look up the real name of those) also eat mozzie larvae. lee

[Scott Hildenbrand]

House was treated for termites at expense of the prior owner before we moved in.

Contact is for quarterly spraying if needed. I try to only have them spray where it's actually useful and limit the inside spraying. However since the house had a brown recluse problem before we moved in the whole house was taken care of.

We've got alot less browns now, only spotting one like once a month tops or so instead of opening doors and seeing 3, 4 or 5 scurry off. Granted it's hard to kill browns with just spraying since their abdomen does not brush the ground but it had helped greatly, if even by removing their food source..

Too bad they can go for 2 years without eating.

At any rate, just a general contract to handle problems such as the ants that have been creative about finding new ways to climb the walls and get under the shingles and sneak into the second story windows.

[Billy]

Sorry I tried to help. No thanks required.

[Lar]

Actually ant lions and damselflies are different orders of insects...damselfly nymphs, like their cousins the dragonfly are totally aquatic. Adult ant lions may resemble damselflies but an easy way to tell them apart (other than the awkward flying) is the adult ant lion will have distinct antennae sticking out from their heads.

Lar

[enigma]

Lar wrote in news:472176d0$0$25659$ [e-mail]:

thanks. don't they also hold their wings differently (folded) when at rest? or am i confusing them with something else? lee

[Lar]

Most damselflies will rotate the wings almost 90 degrees then "park" them running the length of the body where ant lion adults will turn them slightly where they look more flat and then extend them the length of their body.

Lar