Rambling about fire ants...

[dmccarty]

... Come back the next day and drizzle the PVC glue on top. Light the glue and run!!! The glue will ignite the wicks, and when the firecrackers explode, ants will fly
Not EPA approved, but amusing.

We used to do this but would use Styrofoam instead of PVC glue. Just make sure you are FAR enough away from the mound when the fire crackers go boom. Otherwise the Flying Fire Ant is a Fighting Fiend when it lands on YOU.

BTDTBG, Been There Done That Got Bit.

Hate fire ants.
Dan

 

[J_J]

We used to do this but would use Styrofoam instead of PVC glue. Just make sure you are FAR enough away from the mound when the fire crackers go boom. Otherwise the Flying Fire Ant is a Fighting Fiend when it lands on YOU.

BTDTBG, Been There Done That Got Bit.

Hate fire ants.
Dan

That is almost as bad as something stupid we used to do as kids. We would take a mason jar and we gathered around facing the jar, and one kid would hold the cherry bomb and another would light it, he would let it burn for a second, and when he put it in the jar, that was the signal to run like hel*. Well, you know what happened, we got bits of glass all over our backsides, and we thought we were fearless. Something with shooting an arrow straight up, and run like hel*. Dumb we were, but we didn't know it. A stripped down softball soaked in kerosene, and lit off, at night, with gloves throwing it to each other, what fun. And in the military, shooting toilet out of 2 lb coffee cans taped together, and set off with lighter fluid.

 

[jimmyj]

Ironically I read about this in the paper today.

io9 - Headless Fire Ant Zombies Are Your Friends - Phorid flies

SORRY, Did not know this was already noted.

 

[grunewald]

Richard, I've never seen fire ants nor been stung without seeing a mound on the surface of the ground, but how many are underground? I have no idea. I read once that by the time you see a mound, that there are 300,000 ants in that colony, but I'm not sure who counted'em.

And why do they come to the surface after a rain? I don't know that either, but I know I can go months without seeing any in my yard, and one heavy rain and I'll have mounds popping up.

Down in Navarro County, I broadcast Logic a couple of times a year on the 3 acres around the house, barn, shop, and garden and I would usually not see any fire ants, or at least no more than one or two mounds until the next good rain and then I knew that 2 days later, I'd have at least a dozen mounds to treat with the liquid insecticide.

Hello Bird, you have a place in Navarro County, near Geronimo? That only 20 minutes away from me.

 

[Bird]

Hello Bird, you have a place in Navarro County, near Geronimo? That only 20 minutes away from me.

The only Geronimo, TX I know of is on S.H.123 just north of Seguin, so no, I wasn't near Geronimo (unless there's one I don't know about). And I don't have the place in Navarro County anymore. We had to move back to town for family reasons about six and a half years ago. We were on Northwest County Road 3360, across the road from Navarro Mills Lake.

 

[grunewald]

The only Geronimo, TX I know of is on S.H.123 just north of Seguin, so no, I wasn't near Geronimo (unless there's one I don't know about). And I don't have the place in Navarro County anymore. We had to move back to town for family reasons about six and a half years ago. We were on Northwest County Road 3360, across the road from Navarro Mills Lake.

OK. That is the Geronimo I was referrring to.