Good article and video that some of you may be interested in.
http://wkrn.com/2017/05/19/twra-tracks- ... -counties/
http://wkrn.com/2017/05/19/twra-tracks- ... -counties/
You're not alone.edtcase":3275tyzh said:I saw that. I feel there are more than three with declining populations.
x more . . . .Andy S.":2aavxq1d said:You're not alone.edtcase":2aavxq1d said:I saw that. I feel there are more than three with declining populations.
Believe you're on to something.MickThompson":3ic9u3sz said:As for european honeybees and native pollinators, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that we've converted 97% of our native grasslands to some other plant community or land use.
bigasports":2k4o070l said:I'm hearing two things that stick out to the biologists looking into this.
Most of the farmers in these southern counties buy their manure from the same factory in North Alabama. This factory has been found to have mites in the manure. A mite can wipe out a whole flock.
The other is the influx of armadillos and fire ants. Armadillos mainly feed on fire ants and have moved further and further north as the fire ants move north. Anyway the armadillos are so numerous that they are feeding on turkey eggs etc.
Again this was info passed to me.
bigasports":1rcg76pt said:I'm hearing two things that stick out to the biologists looking into this.
Most of the farmers in these southern counties buy their manure from the same factory in North Alabama. This factory has been found to have mites in the manure. A mite can wipe out a whole flock.
The other is the influx of armadillos and fire ants. Armadillos mainly feed on fire ants and have moved further and further north as the fire ants move north. Anyway the armadillos are so numerous that they are feeding on turkey eggs etc.
Again this was info passed to me.
Rockhound":1lda442t said:bigasports":1lda442t said:I'm hearing two things that stick out to the biologists looking into this.
Most of the farmers in these southern counties buy their manure from the same factory in North Alabama. This factory has been found to have mites in the manure. A mite can wipe out a whole flock.
The other is the influx of armadillos and fire ants. Armadillos mainly feed on fire ants and have moved further and further north as the fire ants move north. Anyway the armadillos are so numerous that they are feeding on turkey eggs etc.
Again this was info passed to me.
I'm not bashing you as you were told this information, but what you have been told is total bull. You will not see an armadillo eating fireants at least not in Tennessee anyway. I've killed a couple hundred and I've never even seen one that remotely looked like it was even close to a fire any mound. I've never even seen a fire ant mound that looks as if something were scrounging around in it.
bigasports":2j6fwwz8 said:Rockhound":2j6fwwz8 said:bigasports":2j6fwwz8 said:I'm hearing two things that stick out to the biologists looking into this.
Most of the farmers in these southern counties buy their manure from the same factory in North Alabama. This factory has been found to have mites in the manure. A mite can wipe out a whole flock.
The other is the influx of armadillos and fire ants. Armadillos mainly feed on fire ants and have moved further and further north as the fire ants move north. Anyway the armadillos are so numerous that they are feeding on turkey eggs etc.
Again this was info passed to me.
I'm not bashing you as you were told this information, but what you have been told is total bull. You will not see an armadillo eating fireants at least not in Tennessee anyway. I've killed a couple hundred and I've never even seen one that remotely looked like it was even close to a fire any mound. I've never even seen a fire ant mound that looks as if something were scrounging around in it.
I was told this by TWRA. Again as of now it's theory.
http://www.postandcourier.com/archives/ ... b8fd2.html
I got mine last week. Filled it out and mailed it off alreadybigasports":18g616ue said:Opened the mail today and received this.