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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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 best 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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A BIG Thank You for this info. I never heard of them before. Also be on the lookout for many things that fly in and land in our yards with these storms.
We have always come across a lot more bees, spiders, etc when picking up debris after a hurricane.
I got stung by many yellow jackets just by stepping on their hive(?) after a hurricane.
Many could not have fared as well as I did, so be suspecting of odd things that were not there before the wind blew.