Posted on 06/28/2023 7:07:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The family of a late Georgia mother believes she died of a severe allergic reaction after she stepped on a fire ant pile at her home.
After her tragic death, Cathy Weed is being remembered as a mother to everyone on Mountain View High School’s baseball team, for which her 15-year-old son plays. The team’s players stood side by side with each other on the field Sunday to honor her. Weed died Saturday after relatives say she stepped on an ant pile at her Lawrenceville home. Her family says she had a severe allergy to fire ants, and they believe her reaction to getting bitten was so strong that she died before she could get to her medicine. “Cathy always had a smile on her face. She was always just so cheerful, always cheering on every boy on the team, not just her son,” friend Zuhera Waite said.
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I tried black powder…just once.
Blew the little bastards everywhere.
Terro fire ant bait.
I didn’t realize that was a joke. I judt thought you were giving some handy instructions. Krylon spray paint practically grows on trees, it’s so easy to obtain.
I pour gasoline on the mound. Kills them instantly. Dissolves their bodies…never to be seen again. You can come back 10 minutes later and dig way down into the mound and find no ants.
Amdro m ight work, too.
We’ve used Amdro for carpenter ants and it works great for them.
LOL, and you should head the jokes my Black and Mexican friends make about me. I still find ethnic and nationality jokes funny. But they are no longer kosher.
A bucket connected with a hose to mower exhaust, cover the mound and start the mower. Pump the mound full of carbon monoxide.
Use flexible electric metal conduit and fittings. The threads are the same as the muffler hole threads on the mower.
FYI- they work as a pack/herd in coordination when many are crawling on their prey. When one decides to attack it sends out a theramone scent and that tells them all to bite at the same time.
usually by getting bit once and having an excessive reaction.
I thought I was rid of the little bastards when we left Houston and moved back to Oklahoma but they have arrive here this year. I constantly had welts on my ankles from yard work and them biting me.
They love electrical equipment for some reason and will fill outdoor breaker and switch boxes.
The Spectracide wiped them out in the barnyard and yard so far this year. There will be more of course.
Compress the fire ant bites with ammonia liquid. The bites are shallow enough that if treated promptly, the reaction is milk or only 10%. (Your mileage may very). Best treatment I have found.
This also works for scorpions, yellow jackets and wasps, etc. These later stings bites are more persistent because the venom is injected deeper into the skin. Burt if only one or two of these deeper stings, keep the compress wetted and with a much longer duration
This treatment can make a high difference in stopping the creation of fire ant pustules and subsequent likely infections. (From constant scratching).
FYI.
Cheers
I’m in Alabama and garden a lot, and get fire ant stung a lot. Ammonia for me, too.
I keep a spray bottle of Windex on my tractor cart for this very purpose. As I drive around on my property I go out of my way to run over mounds.
I use Amdro bait to kill them. Works slow but kills the queen.
Boric acid powder or borax laundry soap.
Chew/snuff/tobacco takes the sting out as well.
Lol,it hurts to laugh!
One time, I unknowingly laid down in a fire ant bed. I soon knew about it.
I was wearing short pants. Laid down on a seawall to retrieve a fishing lure I saw.
Not long after laying down, I sensed something was wrong. I jumped up, looked down and saw fire ants all over my legs. Probably had 100 of them on me.
At my dad’s farm he would encounter fire ant mounds that were 3 to 4 feet high. If you weren’t careful it would tip over a tractor when you drove over it. We would pour diesel into the mound, let it sit for a while then come back with gasoline and light it on fire. The diesel would suffocate them and the gas would burn them up.
I go one step further with the gasoline trick...
Just make sure you have a good supply of water for your garden hose.
Gasoline....I’d pour 6-8 ounces on the mound and give it a minute or two to soak to the bottom of the nest.
Ignite.....goodbye ants.
Is it feasible to pour some COVID vaxx on them? They might die suddenly of blood clots or heart attacks.
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