Phil
Carpal tunnel level member
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- Oak Lawn, IL
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monster
- Thread starter treebing
- Start date
- Location
- Little Egg Harbor
Its not poison lol. People have tried to use artificial sweeteners like Splenda as a 'poison' because it tastes like sugar but has no nutrional value. So in theory ants should be attracted to it but eventually starve because of the lack of nutrition. However studies have been done and ants are not attracted to the artificial sweeteners in any notable way.
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Little off subject
I was deep sea fishing and one of the fish we caught was a barracuda. The captain said you can eat it if it didn’t have a disease how you tell is lay the fish on the dock and if the ants didn’t go after it means that its diseased and if the ants started eating it meat the fish was clean.
- Location
- Little Egg Harbor
Thats some hillbilly shit if ive ever heard lmao but you know what if the captain took a bite i probably would too
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Yeah no one wanted to try but definitely never forget the story
Ants are apparently pretty intelligent and pound 4 pound bad asses
- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
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VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Captain on a fishing boat
Stuart fl
Just yanking your chain...
VenasNursery
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- Michigan
He actually hand makes center counsel boats nowJust yanking your chain...
Larry Bonadeo
Bonadeo boatworks
Their cheapest boats are over a million
Super nice guy and close friend
My years in offshore fishing were primarily lobster and golden crab. I did some gill netting for monk and dog fish, but nest to no time with a rod and reel (Very little yellow tail). I never did hear any information about diseased fish. But the mental image of ants going after a fish laying on a dock sure do conjure up some of the more nasty things in life, such as a “flea bagger”…a fish that looks relatively normal until you try to pull it from the net, and its actually just skin and bone filled with sand fleas, which come spilling out all over the sorting table. Gnarl.
I’m also thinking about how native decomposers will excavate dead xylem but not touch the living sapwood around it. Pretty interesting.
VenasNursery
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- Michigan
So I googled it
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evo
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- My Island, WA
Oh shit, haven’t heard the ‘flea bagger’ term in too many years. I never fished commercially but grew up in a fishing town (cause the damn spotted owl stole al the logging jobs)..
fish have some crazy immune systems and can live with some fucked up parasites.. makes a tapeworm look pleasing.
evo
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- My Island, WA
Huh, the weird shit you learn on a tree forum. Not talking about the ants as much as the barracuda poisoning thing. Red snapper is on the list too! Doesn’t sound too far off from our red tides here, but I think that’s mostly shellfish ishs.
ATH
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Findlay, Ohio
even it was good and did good, I'm too cheap for that stuff!
$3/can
3 cans per day
7 days per week
52 weeks per year
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$3276 per year.
yeah....that'd be a $1.57 per hour on a 40 hour week (what's a 40 hour week???).
Anybody not want a $1.50 per hour raise?
That reminds me of a joke I heard a while back. Can’t miss this one, being from New England and all…
Aluminum boat owner: “Hey, you know who really loves wooden boats the most?”
Wooden boat builder: “Who???”
Aluminum boat owner: “Wooden boat builders.”
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I grew up in a drinking town with a farming and fishing problem. It’s true about the parasites that fish live with. Cod, for instance, often carries a a worm which is actually the larval stage of a nematode. The fish was swimming just fine before it was caught, though.
evo
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- My Island, WA
Hi highly recommend ‘parasite Rex’. It’s fascinating, it’s been well over a decade since I’ve read the book. It talks about a few that can control the host’s behavior to complete their life cycle. Essentially making the host more prone to predation so it can complete its life cycle in a different animal. If I recall correctly there is one that requires four specific hosts!
Kinda makes you wonder about human behavior.
moss
Been here much more than a while
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- Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
Larger barracuda can bioacummulate a toxin called ciguatera. Herbivore reef fish graze on green algaes that contain the toxin, a byproduct of bacterial acitivity in the algae. Like many other toxins found in top-of-the-food-chain predators ciguatera ends up concentrated in larger barracuda. With increased nutrients on the Florida gulf side, and other U.S. coastal areas from human sewage, livestock waste and farming fertilizers these toxins have become more prevalent in larger predator fish of any species. Usually we hear about red tide outbreaks from high nutrient levels in coastal marine environments, ciguatera is specifically related to a green algae and reef fish. Apparently ants don't like ciguatera either ;-)
-AJ
But they LOVE a spilled monster all over the sidewalk. You kinda have to love how far we strayed from Kevin’s OP.
