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gnewt said:I hope what little info I gave is a help.
One other thing, Armadillos eat grubs, that means ant larva. I knew those hard shell possums were good for something. I found ant hills that they had been into. Gnewt
gnewt said:Doesn't hang together, gnewt. If indeed you can't find the 'satellite' hills of polygyne (multiqueen) RIFA (highly likely) you can't use gasoline, steam or any other mound technique, can you?
Bait regularly and systematically applied by you and - almost essentially - your neighbours will mean the foraging ants find the poison for you and take it back to their queen or queens to ingest and so become effectively infertile. . .
Yup, you will have to seed virtually all of your property/ies with bait at least once a year. But if you keep pouring gas into the ground pretty soon you'll have quite literally and permanently poisoned everything in sight and - through leaching and runoff - a whole slew of places and creeks that you can't see . . .
gnewt said:What would it hurt, I think the tree huggers would say it would harmful to everybody, all the fish and animals. If that happened all of OK,TX, and the other oil producing states would be in big trouble. How much does the asphalt streets, highways and parking lots leach out. How many tons of bait has been used over this country and what is the population of the fire ants? How many gallons of pesticide have been used, or tons of granules.
yardqueen said:I've lived in Florida for 30 years and the best product I've found to kill fire ants is Amdro. If you are diligent, you can get them under control for the most part. It's impossible to completely eradicate them though.
I hate the thought of eating bugs. Gross. But one time ants were all over my donuts and I ate them anyway ants and all. It wasnt that bad. Red fire ants however will probably be a different story.plehbah said:We should, as a culture, be eating these ants. I do not know about you fellows in the Southlands, but around a-heres, we are the top of the food chain.
Don't come around here, ANTS!
siz3petite said:"I wish you a thousand fire ant bites all over your body. To the moron who stole my beautiful planter from the front of my house. The reason it was at the edge of my driveway was because it was LOADED with fire ants. I was trying to release the nasty critters before re-potting it. However, you foolishly swiped it. HA HA! The joke is on you because I have no doubt that YOUR car, house and body was undoubtedly infested with thousands of ill-natured fire ants. Poetic justice, you stinking thief." Yeah, I really did post this message and I feel much better now that I vented.
Noodle said:Mac_Man,
I'm confused about your post. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can exterminate/eliminate the fire ant from our properties, or were you just trying to put down someone else's posts? Please clarify for the rest of us. Thanks.