I probably have an allergy for that type and not the other. Pete 
What is it with the locals and mango trees?
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I get those big red ants rolled up in a leaf on this flowering vine we have on a trellis going cross the front yard. So many times I've been trimming and grabbed onto the leaf they have a nest in. In my hair, pants, shirt, everywhere but their bite doesn't bother me too much. Burns for a second and then gone, no welts. The killers for me are the small red fire ants that make ground nests in the yard. Those I stay away from as welts galore with them....and pain for an hour or more. I probably have an allergy for that type and not the other. Pete
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Pete
Apparently boric acid is very effective at wiping out those small red fire ants. You just sprinkle some near their nest. They carry it back to their nest, and it kills the entire colony. The trick is of course, where does one find boric acid?
So far I've not managed to find any here in Hua-Hin.
Apparently boric acid is very effective at wiping out those small red fire ants. You just sprinkle some near their nest. They carry it back to their nest, and it kills the entire colony. The trick is of course, where does one find boric acid?
So far I've not managed to find any here in Hua-Hin.Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
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Thanks. I've been successful with boiling water as well, although it kills your grass in the area also. The trick is to get the full, steaming pot from the kitchen to the yard without sloshing it onto you legs or feet. New Thai game show.Takiap wrote:Pete
Apparently boric acid is very effective at wiping out those small red fire ants. You just sprinkle some near their nest. They carry it back to their nest, and it kills the entire colony. The trick is of course, where does one find boric acid?
We better get back to mangos and start a new one for ant extermination if anyone else has anything. Pete Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source
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STEVE G wrote:I know someone who would climb it! Those ants make a nest in a curled up leaf on mango trees and up in our bit of Issan they're a delicacy, you get the whole nest in a bag and pull it off the tree, take it home and make fish and ant soup out of it. It's actually not bad.kendo wrote:We have a mango tree in our garden in Surin, it is infested with those giant red ants that give you a really nasty bite that feels like a burn.
Nobody would clime this one, I wanted to give it the chop but the wife won't let me.
Kendo.
Steve do ya wanna pop round and do the bastards !
there is an ant trail that go's about 30 metre's along the top of our wall to the tree that must be one mother of an ants nest.Kendo.
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Re: What is it with the locals and mango trees?
Mrs.deepee informs me one obvious reason that Thais plant mangoes is that they are part of some old belief that they are supposed attract the spirits on your property to stay in the tree rather than maybe coming inside your home to hang out with you. As we can imagine that will have all sorts of horrible consequences.
She has a book that lists all the good plants you need to plant around your home,a kind of feng-shui gardening thing for Thais maybe.
The Chinese believe you should not have a banana plant near your house as that will attract young lady spirits of "questionable virtue " to you. Have not heard of the plant that attracts the live versions yet, still making enquiries.
She has a book that lists all the good plants you need to plant around your home,a kind of feng-shui gardening thing for Thais maybe.
The Chinese believe you should not have a banana plant near your house as that will attract young lady spirits of "questionable virtue " to you. Have not heard of the plant that attracts the live versions yet, still making enquiries.
Complexity is so simply overrated
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Brand name in the UK is Nippon. They have a range of insect solutions. Not sure if any would be effective on the large red ants here. Maybe the Aussies will know as they have some nasty little tykes over there.
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Thais are very romantic and like Ian Fleming's Dr No.
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Chal thats cool enjoyed that.
Kendo.
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Re: What is it with the locals and mango trees?
Hi Mr DeePee, I have just read your posting on Mango Trees and about them keeping "Spirits" out of the home....A couple of months ago I took some photographs of my garden at night and around the area of my mango trees there are what I would describe as "Orbs"... Most people have dismissed this as perhaps it being marks on my camera lens, but up until reading your posting, I knew nothing of Mango trees and Spirits, not me as I have a HUGE respect for the unknown. I should add that I have had THREE very generous crops from my tree of about Eighty mango per crop....Coming from Glasgow, I know nothing about Mango Trees (Not Many In The Glasgow Area ),
Sorry Mods if I have gone off the topic a wee bit , but I just wanted to share ...
),Sorry Mods if I have gone off the topic a wee bit , but I just wanted to share ...
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Can't wait to see the picture.
We are all living in 'the good old days' of the future.
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[quote="K2OWN"]A couple of months ago I took some photographs of my garden at night and around the area of my mango trees there are what I would describe as "Orbs"... [/quote
Some years back were coming home late at night near Bang Pong(Ratchaburi) on a moto sai.It was a very lonely area and we saw orb like glows in the ruins of an old wat. Sure scarred the piss out of me. Boy did we high-tail it out of there. Neither the good mrs. deepee or our friend would discuss what we saw ,even to this day she freaks out if I dare mention it.
The 3 orby things appeared to be large ballon sized , luminous, foggy and white , maybe 30 metres away from us in trees in the wat's grounds.
Some years back were coming home late at night near Bang Pong(Ratchaburi) on a moto sai.It was a very lonely area and we saw orb like glows in the ruins of an old wat. Sure scarred the piss out of me. Boy did we high-tail it out of there. Neither the good mrs. deepee or our friend would discuss what we saw ,even to this day she freaks out if I dare mention it.
The 3 orby things appeared to be large ballon sized , luminous, foggy and white , maybe 30 metres away from us in trees in the wat's grounds.
Complexity is so simply overrated
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Would be interesting to see the photo mentioned. I'm not sure whether I believe in spirits or not since I've never witnessed anything which couldn't be explained. In fact I probably have less belief in such things now than I did before coming to Thailand, simply because they take it to the extremes here. The poor spirits get blamed for everything.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe I will see or experience something one day that will convince me.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe I will see or experience something one day that will convince me.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
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No need to see the photo if you google it:
"The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts that occur in flash photography — sometimes with trails indicating motion — especially common with modern compact and ultra-compact digital cameras. (...) Orb artifacts are captured during low-light instances where the camera's flash is used, such as at night or underwater – or where a bright light source is near the camera."
Source and read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_%28optics%29
"The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts that occur in flash photography — sometimes with trails indicating motion — especially common with modern compact and ultra-compact digital cameras. (...) Orb artifacts are captured during low-light instances where the camera's flash is used, such as at night or underwater – or where a bright light source is near the camera."
Source and read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_%28optics%29
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Well, I have a lovely big mango tree out by our gate and I hate that sumbitch. Last year it dropped a huge mango on my water meter and knocked the (inadequately glued) input pipe loose and I had to go fix it because God Forbid anyone anyone at the Water Department might have to work after 4 PM on a Friday. Damn tree drips all over, too. Even my Thai girlfriend won't eat mangoes from that tree. Healthiest damn tree I've ever seen in my life - a bumper crop every time. My house is a rental so I can't cut it down...
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Can someone please let me know how I can Download / Upload Photographs on HHAD ?????
Many Thanks K2OWN in Bohfai
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