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The Ranger wrote...
> Wellington Bear <wbear@tea.party.com> wrote in message
> news:8i24f.1515$dO2.727@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
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>>The problem is that I don't have a bug problem except
>>for ants, and spiders don't eat ants nor do other species
>>except for horned toads and anteaters that I know of.
> 
> [snip]
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> Blue-bellies and alligators (both state-wide varieties of lizards) LOVE
> ants. I've seen blue-bellies camp atop a busy ant hill snapping sugar
> ants up as they came out. I wished I had my camcorder! I sat there for
> two hours watching it unfold as one would eat his fill, scamper off only
> to be replaced by another that would eat his fill and then leave. The
> "break" in the routine came when an alligator lizard showed and he
> proceeded to do the same.

Oh cool!  Thanks for the info.  I just moved here from South Texas and
my last house had ants from hell, they had infested the walls and we
had to dump poison powder into the electrical outlets and spray the
entire yard and it still never completely eliminated them.

I'm hardly a tree-hugger, but I do see the wisdom of maintaining some
sort of ecological balance.  Disrupt the balance and you wind up with
vermin.  I was inspired by a story I read about a guy whose house was
infested with cockroaches, and instead of poisoning them he bought a
bunch of frogs and turned them loose and the frogs not only ate every
cockroach, the guy then had to buy feeder roaches for the frogs.

While in Texas I toyed with the idea of breeding horned toads to
unleash on the ants.  I love lizards and I had fairly native anoles
and non-native Mediterranean geckos crawling all over the outside of
my house, but neither ate ants.