00:00Well, it just changes the way that you do everything.
00:06You couldn't really walk in your backyard with bare feet without potentially being bitten.
00:12Your animals and your pets can be bitten without you knowing.
00:17Your livestock can be bitten.
00:19It's just one of those things that, and you can't quite see them until you're on top of
00:22them and that's the other thing.
00:24Not like our native ants, their nests are very much different, they don't have an opening.
00:28You will find them along fence lines and in those areas where the sun is and most of those
00:34areas is where we like to spend time.
00:36So if you were going to have a picnic and you put a picnic rug down, next thing you
00:39know you might have some fire ants all over your picnic rug because you couldn't see the
00:43nest.
00:44So it's one of those things that will change our lifestyle the way we know it if we are
00:47not careful and get on the front foot and work together as a community.
00:51A lot of these landholders have very large land holdings up to beyond 2,000 acres and
00:56there's no way that they have the time or the ability to get to treat everywhere in
01:02those periods that really need to be treated.
01:04So a little bit more assistance, broad scale assistance is definitely needed for these people.
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