It’s my fault. Just finished dusting a few more fire ants mounds.
In areas with multiple queen colonies, there may be 200 or more mounds and 40 million [fire] ants per acre.
https://fireant.tamu.edu/learn/biology/
I lived amongst them in Georgia. They rebuild faster than you can kill them.
It’s a brave and noble soul who can come forward and admit their culpability in so negatively affecting an entire living species in the natural order.
You’re doing your part in saving the Earth.