General News
4 December, 2023
Time for a laugh with Over the Fence
THE RAIN may have washed away Bradley of Boort’s ants, but only temporarily. The pesky little friends keep coming back and just love unleashing summer annoyance at bush cricket grounds and around the tennis courts. THERE’S also the flies that...
THE RAIN may have washed away Bradley of Boort’s ants, but only temporarily. The pesky little friends keep coming back and just love unleashing summer annoyance at bush cricket grounds and around the tennis courts.
THERE’S also the flies that love to inhabit certain towns - Dingee is renowned as a haven for buzzing black blowhards in summer. Some crossed the border on Sunday to test the early season endurance of Mitiamo footballers who we reckon spent as much time swatting as they did marking footballs in the first training run.
ONE old wive’s tale to keep ants away involved good old blackboard chalk. You draw a line of chalk where you don’t want them to cross. The idea is that it will derail the ant trail and confuse them with the scent of chalk. Why this might work for a minute or two, the results are certainly temporary. Ants are determined creatures that will easily find a way around or just pass over the chalk. Some believe that the chalk will make it difficult for the ants to climb over. Unfortunately, this is nothing but an old wives’ tale. No amount of chalk is lethal to ants. You’ll only find yourself with a random line of chalk on the ground and no solution to your ant problem.
EVEN the hot water trick has been called a dud. Some people have been known to try to boil water in a pot and dump it down into ant holes. Only problem, fire ant tunnels can reach depths of 10 feet or more. You would need to dump 10 litres of water inside the hole. By the time the water made it down, the ants have simply moved to another location.
SUMMER weather forecasts are also in the category of having achieved renown, or is that infamy? So much so we had one office assistant regret turning up for work on Monday in jeans. The warmer than expected weather had her experiencing, she said, a case of jean’s regret. We suggested that could be the name of a racehorse. “It’d have to be a dog, my father would never forgive me otherwise,” said worker replied down the phone line.