Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:04:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: Fire Ant alert In-Reply-To: <39367973.AFA0D54B@radium.ncsc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:55 AM 6/1/00 -0400, Scott Crabtree wrote: > >There is always the "jizz" method of ID - if you feel a myriad little points of >white-hot bites up and down your legs, you WERE standing on one of their >mounds. At present, you would be capering about, swatting mindlessly at your >legs, and trying to rip your pants off. > >I've been know to exaggerate a bit. Scott, Not really. A friend once dryly remarked during her summary of her birding tour to Texas, about the gentleman who had unknowingly stood on a fire ant mound, that she had never seen a pair of pants come off of someone so fast. G'day Rob Hilton robert@csa.com Bethesda ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================