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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Don’t be so smug. What if fire ants mutate and evolve to a cold-hardy species.
You need to try out driver ants. I was sleeping and woke to two trying to get into my bottom and a couple at my eyes. They had just entered the tent and I was first.
Youtube has videos of folks using molten aluminum to destroy fire ant and yellow-jacket nests.
That’s the best method we’ve found too. Doesn’t take that much either. I think the fumes exterminate them all the way down into their tunnels.
Same way I found out I’m allergic to antivenom. It sucks!
I douse the mound with lighter fluid then touch it off. They don’t come back.
I had numerous welts and small pustules on the back of my hand, and boy, did they sting. Quite painful.
Fipronil
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