Fire Ant problem

Luckily up here in Canada we don't have them - just West Nile infected
mosquitos on the Eastern Provinces.

Milton Aupperle
www.outcastsoft.com

And don't forget SARS up in Toronto...and I don't know about
Lyme disease...just had a mild case of that here in Erie, out on Presque
Isle Peninsula. (From a deer tick bite).
TW.

obviously never been bitten by one........

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Last night I set up the dob to look at mars and walked up to the
eyepice and brought the scope around toward mars and then the fire
ants attacked.
What's wrong with fire ants?

Milton Aupperle wrote:
Luckily up here in Canada we don't have them - just West Nile infected
mosquitos on the Eastern Provinces.

Move to Louisiana - We have both! ;-\

I've seen various approaches, including :

* Something called DIY - It's a liquid that when poured on the mound,
forms a heavier-than-air gas that drops into the hill and kills them

* What we use - Regular old orange-bagged Spectracide far-aint (as they
say down here) killer.... Just pour in on the hill and it's dead the
next day

* I used to work with a fellow who heard somewhere that you should fight
fire ants with fire ants. He took a shovelful of one hill and dumped
it on another one, hoping they'd all kill each other. They just joined
up... apparently he didn't have rival gang ants.

Then, about twice a year or so, it's love bug season... Whew! Glad
they're slow, don't bite and don't stink! Otherwise, we'd have a REAL
problem for a couple of months! I've gone as far as patrolling the house
(inside) with a ShopVac, sucking them right out of the air while they're
flying around, connected at the posterior...

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