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CciilSiM I w y: ' tKi Mlkl II I MIS [hi I Seleste Acosta, of Friendswood, Texas, volleys as part of her training for tennis camp this week. Camps will run throughout the next two'*' 1 (| at Texas A&M. o' | ■' :i. : 7 ' r;:,... . r" - :t z =:. :i:' :r z 1 . ======|e :rs>| B Toxic fire ants wreak havoc on trout communis The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 845-0569 SATTLER, Texas (AP) — Fire ants are being blamed for a major fish kill in the Guadalupe River, where wildlife officials say thousands of trout have died after eating dead ants. An estimated 22,000 trout have been killed this year along a 15-mile stretch of the Guadalupe below Canyon Dam toward New Braun fels, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Fire ants are toxic to the fish. Some trout had as many as 500 ants in their stomachs, officials said. Andrew Labay, regional pollution biologist with the wildlife depart ment, said fire ants go on mating flights after the first strong rain every May. From 3,000 to 4,000 winged ants per mound take to the air to continue their species, he said. “They fly up high and mate,” Labay was quoted as saying in Wednesday’s San Antonio Ex press-News. “The males die and fall to the ground. The females land and start new colonies. There is a high con centration of fire ant mounds along rivers because of the water and the deep soil. So a lot of the ants land in the river,” Labay said. Experts determined three years ago fire ants were to blame for the yearly deaths, officials said. Agency spokesman Steve Light- foot said he talked to a diver who in spected the fish kill last Thursday. “He found the bottom of the riv er was covered with dead trout,” Lightfoot said. Trout have small air bladders, so they don’t bloat and float like other fish. 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