I sprinkled some Amdro on the patio (oily corn meal with a fire ant birth control). A few minutes ago I observed a line of ants, carrying tiny crumbs back to the Queen Mother<\/strong>, who is about to stop laying eggs forever<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since this pest management solution involves birth control, I asked NightCafe to create an image that involved fire ants practicing safe sex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was booted off the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The closest I got was fire ants practicing social isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it is our experience that censorship only serves to encourage bad behavior. One of the junior members of the WLBOTT <\/strong>art department (he’s single, ladies!<\/em>) produced these 1950s pulp depictions to fight NightCafe’s attempt to silence our attempt to education the public on this important issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s call our junior marketing associate George<\/strong> (he’s single, ladies!<\/em>). He came up with many more designs, but they didn’t meet our high publishing standards, and for that reason we will not be publishing the following….<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess this is what passes for good news these days. Early this morning, while enjoying the fresh late October air on the back steps of WLBOTT HQ, I noticed fire ants crawling underfoot. It’s unusual for fire ants to be active this late in the year, but we can thank our republican colleagues for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,71,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-kingdom","category-climate-change","category-sticking-it-to-the-man","category-texas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59487,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393\/revisions\/59487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/p5Pklfz74iX7piYhOwtb-0-s9joi.jpg\")
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