Lehman Caves, a show cave in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, brags
about its "rare" shield formations.
Shields essentially consist of two parallel plates of calcite deposit.
Water flows between the plates and deposits stalactites on the lower
plate when it drips from the edge. The myster
I saw some leaf cutter ants in Rockport. Sam
A few months ago there was a thread about leaf-cutter ants. Here's
something new about them from the Yucatan. Such ants can usually be
seen busily at work in Bustamante Canyon. I don't recall seeing them
in Texas, but I wouldn't be surpr
I have always associated these ants with tropical regions, but when
house hunting two months ago, spotted a leaf cutter train in someones
front yard about 30 miles West of Houston (Fullshear area).
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Sam Young wrote:
> I saw some leaf cutter ants in Rockport.
Has anybody noticed the assortment of helmets the international rescue teams
are using?
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/01/17/07.k9team.afp.gi.jpg
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/01/17/02.rescueteam.afp.gi.jpg
The U.S. and French seem to prefer Petzl, but I don't recogn
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Just confirming that this is a real person and not a bot. Are you
living in Texas or caving in the area?
Thanks
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hi, I just arrived Dallas and trying to get into caving.
Thanks
Bill.
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Good deal Bill, I recommend http://dfwgrotto.org/ as well.
Charles
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Thanks alot!
Bill
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Good deal Bill, I recommend http://dfwgrotto.org/ as well.
Charles
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hi, I just arrived Dallas and trying to get into caving.
Thanks
Bill.
On Jan 18, 2553 BE,
Did anybody know this caver?
Bradley John Smith, 57, of Austin, died Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at his home.
He was born June 1, 1952, in Austin and graduated from Austin High
School and attended college in Southern Minnesota.
He was self-employed as a jeweler and owned Smith Custom Jewelry.
Brad w
I just realized there was an Austin, Minnesota.
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Yes, leaf cutter ants are in south central and east Texas. See the
excerpt below from
http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/leaf_cutting
When I lived in Belmopan, Belize, there w
Underground Texas Grotto meeting January 20, 2010
The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. in Austin Texas on the
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Beverley Shade will present - Blowing Sink: A UTG/City of Austin
A few months ago there was a thread about leaf-cutter ants. Here's
something new about them from the Yucatan. Such ants can usually be
seen busily at work in Bustamante Canyon. I don't recall seeing them
in Texas, but I wouldn't be surprised if some were found in the
valley. -- Mixon
JIM
I have heard a number of gardeners in the central Texas area complaining about
them decimating their crops. I hear they are very hard to control.
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> From: bmixon...@austin.rr.com
> To: texascavers@texascavers.com
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:23:50 -0600
> Subject: [Texascavers] leaf-cutter
I am pretty sure--like 99%--that we had them in South Texas when I was a
kid. I remember well watching them but don't recall a specific
location--meaning, probably, that they were a common enough occurrence that
they didn't invoke any great interest worthy of remembering.
There were some ants in S
There were some ants in South Texas that made underground nests
which humped up above ground (sorta like fireant mounds except 10x
bigger) and which created large subsurface voids. On more than one
occasion we were unlucky enough to drive over these mounds hidden by
tall pasture grass and the
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