The ants in my garden farm aphids. Can I fill out the papers on their behalf for European subsidies?
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is gotta be in triplicate to the proper authority or you have tio do it all over again
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1.1 Where can I get queen ants? \n\nThere are a few possibilities:\n\na. You can dig her nest up and find her. This is a tedious and\n   difficult method and may not always be successful. The queen\n   is very difficult to get. --Ant\n\n   I have done this numerous times. For Formicas (larger small\n   mound building species) I use:\n\n   1. Spade shovel\n   2. 2 five gallon buckets\n   3. 2 covers for buckets\n   4. Metal spoon.\n   5. Newspaper (a section will do)\n   6. Jars/bucket with 1-2" inside near rim treated with oil\n\n   The process I use is to locate less developed nests (smaller).\n   Then I carry shovel, buckets, and covers to site of nest\n   during mid to late day (when sun has warmed upper soil).\n\n   Next, I cut a circle around colony usually about size of\n   bucket or smaller if possible. Think of this like cutting a 6"\n   deep hole of sod; but don't pull up the section until you have\n   made your circular cut. When your ready lift the whole\n   section out of ground -- intact if possible -- put in first\n   bucket. Then while the nest is disturbed, begin to quickly dig\n   the rest of the soil following chambers and tunnels until few \n   ants are found or bucket(s) are full. As buckets get full, \n   place covers on them.\n\n   Now, take the bucket(s) home and begin to manually sort (using\n   spoon, newspapers for the refuse soil and jars/bucket to put\n   the workers, pupae, larvae, eggs in while looking for the\n   queen(s). Once the queen is obtained, then one can decide\n   whether to keep sorting to obtain more workers or eggs, larvae\n   pupae, etc. I have found eggs are very difficult to spot in\n   many species unless they are still in wads of multiple eggs.\n\n   Under large rocks mid-day or there about: Similar process as\n   above, but usually one doesn't need to get as much soil and    \n   one may see immediately the queen. I've turned large blocks\n   many times and seen huge colonies -- with a queen scrambling\n   for cover. --Mr. Ant\n\nb. Rotting boards are good candidates. In West Virginia this\n   summer (1999), I found three species all with queens under a\n   rotting dog house we had to move.\n\n   Carpenter ant queens, at least in Michigan, can relatively\n   easily be found in late fall or early spring (in cool\n   temperatures) by locating a large tree stand with a fair\n   amount of downed and rotting logs. By carefully peeling off\n   the bark one should easily be able to find a carpenter queen\n   with her first brood (in some stage) in a egg shaped chamber\n   between bark and wood of tree. Being prepared with collection\n   jars (large mouthed mason work great) and sharp long knife.\n   One places a small section of bark over the 1.5" oval chamber\n   and cuts into the tree to extract completely the 1.5" oval\n   chamber and surrounding wood. --Mr. Ant\n\nc. Wait for the nuptial flights during the spring and summer\n   seasons. The new queen ants usually fly away after a rain\n   storm during a warm temperature. It depends where you are, and\n   the development of the colony. Most species of ants will mate\n   in late spring and summer (June through August). --Ant and \n   Angelo Scott\n\n   Nuptial flights are the best time to get queens. Many times I\n   seem to miss them for various reasons. The best reason to get\n   nuptial queens is they are MUCH less sensitive to light than\n   full blown native colonies (which I have observed take some\n   time to acclimatize to light). Also, you get to see the full\n   development cycle. It is important make sure to feed your\n   queen before she enters the chamber as this will give her a\n   much larger first brood than otherwise would have occurred.\n   She will greedily gorge herself and then you can finally put\n   her in your terrarium. --Mr. Ant\n\nd. Finding colonies with queens is best done during the first\n   really warm weather of spring. At this time, queens come near\n   the surface to
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If I were doing your return, I would probably file a Schedule C using a code of 561900 (Other Support Services) or 114110 (Fishing).  This seems more than reasonable to me.  I don't think worm farming can reasonably be explained as a farm, since your worms are probably used for fishing and not for some agricultural or animal development purpose.  \n\nIf it gets down to the wire and would like some help, I'd be happy to help you get that filed.  If it gets really down to the wire, you might consider filing a Form 4868 extension.  As long as you don't think you're going to have to pay any taxes this year (good indicator would be what you paid/received back last year) then it can be sent in without any check and you can have 6 more months to file your taxes, up until October 15th.  \n\nhttp://www.refundaccounting.com
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Just imagine an army of ants with no queen. God Bless! quit the arrogance and realize all this beautiful nature was not created by chance or you. God Bless Love. Amen. Try praying and speaking to your Father God.
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Maybe these sites will help...\n\nP.S. - we can't email you if you don't give us the addy!
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http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1074410825
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They belong to the order Hymenoptera, this means they are most closely related to bees, wasps, and sawflies. Ants are characterised by having a very narrow waist between the thorax and the abdomen, this places them in the sub-order Apocrita.\nAnts are one of the most social insect on the planet, and the bulk weight of all the ants in the tropics is more than the combined weight of all the humans on earth.\nAnts are wingless except for the reproductives. Queens will have what is called a nuptual flight where they emerge from a nest and mate with a single male. The female then starts her own colony and used the stored sperm from that one mating for the rest of her life, she can produce hundreds of thousands of eggs with this single sperm donation.\nAnt societies have different demographics, called castes, these include workers (sterile females) soldiers (with large mandibles) and one queen, sometimes more, depending on the species.\nAnts eat virtually anything, from organic materials to other insects, to pollen, nectar and honeydew (produced by aphids)\nSome ants grow their own food, like in leaf-cutter ants. They will cut pieces leaves and transport them to special chambers underground where they grow mushrooms which feed on the leaves.\n\nthats all that comes to mind for now, hope this helps!
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ants are the coolest-all over the world different species work in large colonies to do amazing things, they practice agriculture: some cultivate a species of fungus to eat using cut up leaves as substrate and every time there is a new colony to be formed they bring the fungus with them. Some raise aphids like cows protecting them from predators to feed on a sweet secretion they produce. Some live in specialy evolved hollow spaces on plants built specifically to house ants who in return protect the plant from any intruder and even vines that try to grow on it-they will even weed out plants trying to grow on the ground around it! They also wage wars against other ant colonies, and that's just the beginning....
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Yes, I have ants in my kitchen.  Set out some bay leaves.  Seems to have made a difference.
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http://www.aperfectcv.co.uk/applicationforms.html
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Try to switch on your laptop for straight 2 days (48 hours).\n\nThe heat generated may make the environment unsuitable for the ants to live. Thay will move out.\n\nWhich part of your laptop has been colonized ?
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Go to the local pharmacy and ask for Boric Acid. Its a white powder, cheap and very effective at getting rid of an assortment of insect critters. Put it in a salt shaker and sprinkle around the ant infestion. The ants will die and they will all take some of the poison back to their nest where it'll kill off ants in the nest. Boric acid isn't dangerous to you, kids, cats or dogs but it's murder on insects.
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Maybe its best to find out if you're eligable first !!\n\nwww.directgov.uk
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Hi my name is Beau Williams. I started a small business 3 months ago. I named it Extreme Pest Control. I put everything I had into it to get it off the ground. What I do is telemarket home owners. My script goes like this:\n Hi my name is beau with EPC I am calling to let you know that we will be spraying some of your neighbors houses on  __________ Street this week. What we do is spray a six foot protective barrier all the way around the foundation of your home. It keeps out spiders, ants, crickets, beetles anything that crawls. We also put down a flea and tick treatment in your lawn that kills over 50 different bugs that live in your grass as well as spray around all of your windows, doors and sopheting to keep away bees, wasps, hornets and mud dobbers. We come out every two months and its guaranteed so if you ever have a problem just call us up and we'll come back out for free. There is no contract and it's only sixty eight for the first treatment and forty eight per treatment after that. So will you give us a shot? \n \nPlease understand this is just a basic sample of my script.  I spray the houses in the daytime and telemarket at night from 5:00 to 9:00 that's when most people are home. My wife helps me when she is off of work from wal-mart. We are getting sales every day. Sales is a numbers game if you dial the numbers you will get sales. I know that $68.00 doesn't sound like much but if I get 50 sales in a week that's $3,400.00 that week and I spray them every 2 months. So every 2 months I get all of the new customers plus the ones that are due to be resprayed. It will grow bigger and bigger because business will double every 2 months. The only problem I have is I need capital to start a telemarketing room. I want to employe 10-20 telemarketers to telemarket the whole state of Indiana. If you don't think there is money in Pest Control then look at \nTerminix or Orkin both very successfully companies. I Know that if I had someone like you self that would invest $20,000.00 Twenty Thousand Dollars I could turn it into streams of residual. I am not sure how things work with investors so I hope you take me serious. If nothing else I could could you help point me in the right direction? I know this business will I just need money to get things moving. I did try the better business bureau but they wont even look at me because I filed bankruptcy in 2004. Once again my name is Beau Williams. My Phone Number Is 812-718-  \nmy email address is beau.williams@yahoo.com I hope that you are interested in this opportunity because I guarantee it will make money. \nThank You \nBeau Williams   beau.williams@yahoo.com
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Yes they do.\n\nQuote from article found at http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/ \n\n---quote begins---\nAlthough ants can be seen in various places from spring to autumn, they go into hibernation in the winter. In addition, from spring to autumn, many ants are seen to come from, and go into, the entrances of their nests, but these entrances are closed in winter and no ants are seen to come from there.\nWhere do ants pass the winter?\n---quote ends---\n\nFind out more from\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/BE/Kingdom/5657/5657e.html
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not that i know of ... try asking your parents of what to do or go see a doctor... but idont think they were fire ants.. ive seen them before i know what you're talking about but i dont know what kind of bugs they were but i know that they werent fire ants.
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There is not really a thing like surface only ants, but there are ants which do mainly foraging. \nIf you just sweep up a bunch of ants around a nest and put them in your ant farm I'd expect them to behave exactly like you describe. They are away from their mom and feel lonely and depressed...\nAnyway, doesn't sound like you have an ant queen and brood in your nest. You also don't say anything about feeding them and giving them water. You should indeed read up on the poor critters before you mistreat them. They may be small animals, but they still are animals and need proper care. And ants need their own and complete colony to behave normally - and even then, ants underground don't have a reputation to uphold, they can be fairly lazy.