Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Tuesday 3 November 2015
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Nelson is ‘crawling’ with ants Andrew Board
Parts of Nelson are “crawling” with aggressive Argentine ants, forcing some home owners out of their house, says a local pest control business owner. Shane Warland of Flybusters says this week he is working on 18 different homes on one Richmond street, all with severe ant problems. “They’re rampant, they’re just taking over parts of Richmond and Nelson. The Wood area is crawling,” he says. “In Richmond there’s places they can’t even put their little kids out on the lawn because the ants just crawl all over them. They don’t sting but they do bite, and if you get a couple of hundred thousand ants over a little kid…” Shane says spring is traditionally a busy time for him getting rid of the “nasty”
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Nelmac’s Linda Vandercolk and Paul Andrews hanging baskets on Monday. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
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Hanging baskets brighten CBD
They’re rampant, they’re just taking over parts of Richmond and Nelson, The Wood area is crawling. - Shane Warland.
Nelmac workers were out and about on Monday morning decorating Trafalgar St with hanging flower baskets. Linda Vandercolk says they started hanging them at 5am on Monday morning. “They’re small now but after a while they’ll get bigger and really bloom.” The project was first instigated by the Nelson City Council in 2000, and since then the council have organised hanging baskets to bloom each year from November through to Easter. The baskets are funded through the cooperation of local businesses and the council budget, a large portion of which is CBD parking meter revenue. All of the baskets in Hardy St, Trafalgar St and Bridge St will be up by Wednesday.
ants but this year is worse than others. “Because of the warmer winter I’ve been busy for months. You need a good few weeks of frosts and we haven’t had that for five years, so the numbers just keep booming.” Home owners are sometimes “hysterical” when they call him, with others having to move out of their homes until Shane has destroyed the ants. “We had a lady in The Wood, she would have been in her late 80s, and she woke up with them in her hair, in
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