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Among local people attending the Democratic Party’s state convention in Atlanta on
Saturday were House candidate Beth Perera and delegates Gail Gallaher, Centerville,
Jamie Swift, Warner Robins and Dee Swift, Warner Robins.
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Delegates Gallaher, Phyllis Bynon-Grace of Perry and alternate Dorothy Ford of Warner
Robins attended the Democratic State Convention in Atlanta on Saturday.
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House candidate Scott Taylor of Warner Robins and delegate Kristina Simms of Perry
at the Democratic State Convention.
USD A awards grant for web-based
food stamp application program
Special to the Journal
Sept 13, the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources and its partner
organizations were present
ed with a $1 million Ti
from the US Depai tment
of Agriculture to develop a
web-based food stamp appli
cation program.
■ “The creation of a web
based food stamp program
will greatly enhance our
ability to reach out to needy
Georgians and provide sup
port for their families,” said
DHR Commissioner B.J.
Walker.
This grant is one of only
five awards the USDA is pro
viding to states and commu
nity organizations around
the country. The Food St amp
Program is administered by
the USDA and the creation
of web based application
system will improve federal
and state efforts to increase
participation among eligible
Democratic delegates
clients.
DHR is working with
Georgia Cares, the Georgia
Department of Labor,
the Salvation Army, the
Georgia Community Action
Association and the Christ
Lutheran Church to develop
this web application pro
gram.
The Georgia Food Stamp
program is administered by
DHR’s Division of Family
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Ways to fight fire ants
By Faith Peppers
University of Georgia
Football games aren’t
the only struggles crank
ing up on gr;v battlefields
now. University of Georgia*
experts say fall is an ideal
time to fight fire ants, too.
“It’s appropriate to
treat for fire ants any
time that they’re active,”
said Dan Suiter, an ento
mologist with the UGA
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.
“They’re active in warm
months.”
Since it stays warm well
into the fall in the South,
keep up the fight.
“You hear about fall
treatments sometimes in
light of baiting programs,”
Suiter said. “Many of the
baits registered for fire ant
control are very slow-acting
growth regulators. It may
take a half year or more to
eliminate the colonies. So,
the thinking is to bait in the
fall, and the next spring the
ants will not return.”
New weapons
Red imported fire ants
first made an appearance in
Georgia in the early 19505.
By 1987 they had spread to
143 of 159 counties. Today
the entire state is infested,
as is much of the East Coast
to southern Virginia.
“While the basic biol
ogy of fire ants hasn’t
changed, there have been
some advances in control
techniques and materials,”
said UGA entomologist Will
Hudson.
“Baits remain the best
options for large areas
(more than 1 acre or so),”
he said.
Many brands fall into
two basic groups: those
with active ingredients that
are toxic to the ants (like
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Georgia is now home to
two types of fire ants - red
and black fire ants.
Amdro) and those that have
as active ingredients insect
growth regulators that ster
ilize the queen and stop
development of the imma
ture ants in the colony.
“Baits work by tak
ing advantage of the
ants’ behavior,” Hudson
explained, “so we can apply
a small amount (1 to 1.5
pounds per acre) of materi
al and let the workers take
it back to the mound and
feed it to the colony.”
No mounds v. no ants
Applied every six months,
they often cany a guar
antee of “no mounds” if
applied correctly. Not “no
ants,” but “no mounds.”
“As it happens, it takes
about six months for a colo
ny to grow from the found
ing queen to a size where
there are enough workers
to build the characteristic
mound,” he said, “and the
baits are good at breaking
the cycle. There will, how
ever, be ants there between
applications, just not all
that many.”
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For smaller areas, or
where you need zero ants,
Hudson recommends a
broad st. application of a
conta': <
“T! >f these include
fipronil products such as
Over’n’Out for homeowners
or those with pyrethroids
as active ingredients,” he
said.
Pyrethroids are active
ingredients ending in -thrin
such as bifenthrin, per
methrin, cypermethrin or
cyfluthrin.
“There are lots of these
on the shelves, as they’re
all off patent now,” Hudson
said.
“Fipronil will usually give
a season of ‘no ants,”’ he
said. “The pyrethroids are
less long-lasting, but will
give 1 to 3 or even 4 months
of control. After that, the
cycle starts over if, the
ants are flying (almost all
year in south Georgia and
April through October in
Atlanta).”
Costs range from less
than SSO per acre for pyre
throids to more than $l5O
per acre for fipronil. “But,
if your yard is 5,000 square
feet, they aren’t that expen
sive,” Hudson said.
A newcomer to the fire
ant control market is
indoxacarb, which is sold
as Advion for commercial
use and in the Spectracide
line for homeowners. “It’s
a bait, but instead of weeks
to see a reduction in ants,
they start to disappear in
a couple of days. It’s still a
‘no mounds’ type, but fast,”
Hudson said.
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