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Posted by two bit on May 21, 2002 at 07:46:36 from (168.37.239.1):
In Reply to: Sink holes!! posted by D dude on May 20, 2002 at 18:21:37:
Here in SW Texas we sometime have sink holes form from old ant mounds (the big red ants). They sometime cave in under a tractor tire. Recently my neighbor dug a 10 foot deep ditch with his backhoe in an area where an old mound had been about six years ago. He showed me the sides of the ditch. From about 5 feet deep all the way to the bottom, the sides were honeycombed with voids the size of watermellons. All the ants were gone. I never realized that mounds went so deep and were so big. It explains why the ants are so hard to kill and why a front tractor tire can collapse one. If you could train the ants to dig storm cellers you could make a bundle!
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