{"id":112,"date":"2017-01-21T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2017-01-21T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:46:06","slug":"diatoms-how-did-you-hear-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/diatoms-how-did-you-hear-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"DIATOMS \u2013 How did you hear about them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SolenopsisZoomonSnake-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Small portion of a 1 cm wide snake with four fire ants in the photo. The white belly of the snake is showing and the background is the slidewalk.\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Caption: This is a close up of fire ants. You can see two sizes of ants, one is the worker (small) the other is the boss (large).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DIATOMS, what are you?\u00a0 What do you do?\u00a0 There is a scrap of information that flows among the like-minded folks of the south.\u00a0 That scrap of information is; use DIATOMS\u00a0on ant piles.\u00a0 The information is usually revealed in the following way:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cOh my, we don\u2019t have these Fire Ants where I come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cYes, the bites [sic (sting)] are nasty for such a little ant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very Old Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cThose ants weren\u2019t always here.\u00a0 You used to be able to walk bare foot and grab a covey of quail with your bare hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cHow do you get rid of the ants?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cJust sprinkle the granules from Home Depot all over your property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very Old Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cThe name Home Depot doesn\u2019t make sense, they don\u2019t have homes at the Home Depot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cAren\u2019t those granules toxic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cDon\u2019t eat the granules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Minded Old Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cAnother way to combat the ants is to use Diatomaceous Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Southerner:<\/strong> \u201cDi- huh? What?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Minded Old Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cDiatomaceous Earth, packaged under the name DIATOMS, available at OkraGardenSupply.com\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cWhat is it?\u00a0 How does it Work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Minded Old Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cJust keep reading the Okra Garden Supply blog, all will be revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very Old Southerner<\/strong>: \u201cWhat is a blog?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DeadSnake-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This little snake was dead on my front path. A few ants were having their breakfast. I don&#8217;t think that the ants killed the snake, I think a bird dropped the dead snake. The snake is about 8 inches long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This post if famous in the future: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/what-are-diatoms\/\">What Are DIATOMS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; DIATOMS, what are you?\u00a0 What do you do?\u00a0 There is a scrap of information that flows among the like-minded folks of the south.\u00a0 That scrap of information is; use DIATOMS\u00a0on ant piles.\u00a0 The information is usually revealed in the following way: &nbsp; New Southerner: \u201cOh my, we don\u2019t have these Fire Ants where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diatoms","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}