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Re: Re: Fireants-Is there a way?
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Posted by Keith TX on December 22, 2001 at 12:40:11 from (216.40.218.189):
In Reply to: Re: Fireants-Is there a way? posted by Alberta Mike on December 22, 2001 at 07:25:06:
Alberta Mike,
I recognize and appreciate your humor here but....Do you guys have these pests that far North? THEY ARE MOTHER F'ers! When you get into their mounds in your pasture etc unknowingly, they will infiltrate your boots, find your skin and get your attention FAST. They leave nasty wealts and many can get you before you know you are got. This is not to even mention if they get into your house as they have mine before.
While I do not think that electrodes will effectively work with them, pesticides and persistence is the only answer and even with plenty of both you can only semi control them. The main underground nest will put off a mound every time a queen is born. I guess each queen takes some of the main nest and starts her own little brothel. You usually see many mounds fairly close to each other. You can bait them with AMDRO or I like to use Ortho powder on the mounds, it seems to work well.
Some have told me that these nasty pests have helped to kill off scorpions in my part of the country but I see no evidence of that. I still see an occasional scorpion inside my home and almost any night I can find at least a few on the bricks outside. They hurt too. I do know that fireants have nearly erradicated armadillos and most ground dwelling marsupials and birds native to me in East Texas.
I have heard that the government is working on a fungus of some sort that will kill fireants. I guess they just have to determine what else it will kill or affect before unleashing it. Until that glorious day, Keep the poison pouring and stay with it.
Fireants suck.
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