[Daffynition]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Gasoline or lighter fluid and a match.

[fatnotlazy]

My Dad was tending his garden. He got tired so he sat on the ground...right on a colony of fire ants.

Dad learned the hard way. Those ants are nasty.

[CivilWarBrewing]

I think the insurgent gubmint seeded the clouds above Texas a wee bit too much.

[T-Bone Texan]

I admit I am rayciss against ants of the red hue.

10 months out of the year is sandals weather in TX, and those ants haunt me.

The photo screams “target rich environment”. Now is your only chance! Kill them; kill them all!

[babyfreep]

They are now in the OKC area, too. I have never seen them up here till this spring.
I went to my dad’s grave site in NW OKC on Memorial Day and there were mounds all over the cemetery.

[a fool in paradise]

I guess "the internet" never watched The Naked Jungle (with Charlton Heston).

And in strong contrast to the humans in the film loom the ants, the Marabunta.

With them, it’s all for one, and one for all. When they cannot cross a river, for example, they team up and carry leaves to the river's edge, using the plants as transportation, as rafts. And when they decide on a goal or a path, nothing can stand in their way. There is no contemplation of a single ant's needs, or individual flaws.

[WayneS]

Fire ants invade North Texas with heavy rains

Fire ants brought the rain? But Bill Nye just got through saying it was global warming...

On the plus side, at least the fire ants didn't invade North Texas with tanks and armored personnel carriers.

[central_va]

Shortest period of time ever recorded is the time between when a fireant gets on you and the time it starts biting/stinging.

[Paladin2]

That’s what they make propane blow torches for.

[abb]

http://www.ortho.com/smg/goprod/ortho-orthene-fire-ant-killer/prod170004

It will kill the mound that you treat, but after every rain, new mounds tend to pop up. A never-ending battle in the South.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

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Send them to Ferguson and Baltimore, Cleveland and NYC.

[GregoTX]

I don’t think they invaded N. Texas with the rains, I’m perty sure they were already there.

[al_c]

Not a new invasion. They were already here … the rains have driven them to the surface.

[JoeProBono]

[yarddog]

My two year old and I were standing in my parent’s pasture in NW Florida. I happened to look at her and she was standing right in the middle of a fire ant mound.

She screamed and began running. I caught her after only a few feet, ripped off her sandals and socks and swept all of them off with my hands.

She is now 38 and I mentioned it to her a few days ago. She remembered it well and told me she did not get a single sting. I am pretty sure that is correct tho hard to believe.

[SkyDancer]

Boric acid. Will do them in every time. And don’t get the 40% stuff, it’s out there. Home Depot and get the one that says Roach killer, it’s 98% ... it’s a fine powder.

[central_va]

[ought-six]

Fire ants. I hate those damn things.

[sockmonkey]

Back in the 2002 Texas floods, I was digging a ditch to try to keep the water out of my house. One of those balls of fire ants floated against my leg, and thought they’d make it out of the water. I swear they can bite under water. I feel nauseous, and prickly just thinking about it.

After they started chomping, I completely lost interest in digging the ditch to keep the flood waters at bay.

[vetvetdoug]

In 1974 the fire ants were no further North in Mississippi than Meridian, Ms. That year, EPA made the claim that Myrex was environmentally unsafe and Myrex’ sole purpose was to kill fire ants and was effective. I noticed that mounds were further North about 50 miles each year after Myrex was outlawed. In 1985 was the first time I noted mounds on the Tennessee/Mississippi state line. The expansion of the fire ant territory can be attributed to EPA’s removing Myrex from the armamentarium of ant poisons.