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Old 10-11-2024, 08:43 AM
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Default Milton's October Surprise.

I started cleaning up the front yard of storm debris like tree branches, leaves and the like. This also included what looked like a bird or maybe a squirrel nest. The nest had fallen from about fifteen feet from the Oak Tree.


I eventually got to what was the nest in the ground and pulled up some of its outer layer hoping that no squirrel nor bird young had been in it. But looking closely the whole thing seemed to be shifting in appearance. It seemed like it was alive. And then I saw the it was covered with hundreds of ants moving in every direction with a few trailing onto the ground.

It turned out my frequent battle with white footed ants had come back yet again after having had Massey spray these invasive species.


They had just moved over instead of out. And then the winds of Milton took them down.

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