[nickcarraway]

If you get bitten by fire ants during a hurricane, you know you are having a bad day.

[Pontiac]

Mix up a spray bottle of dishwashing detergent.

Spray the ant island with the detergent solution and the island will sink, the ants drown.

And don’t feel guilty. Fire ants are an invasive species.

[sockmonkey]

I have been the unlucky recipient of a floating fireant ball during flooding. Painful, left scars, and eventually some other problems.

[abb]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[NautiNurse]

Carrying a box full of XL avocados across the front yard to distribute to neighbors. They had been blown out of the tree during a tropical storm.

Phone rings, so I set down the box. When I hoisted up the box again, discovered it had been sitting atop of a mound of angry fire ants.

Broke land speed records dashing to the back yard and diving into the pool. Ouch x30. No good deed goes unpunished.

[Hot Tabasco]

So it was no surprise to him that he was able to capture an island of the irritating insects on camera at Civitian Park in Pensacola.

So where is the video?

[ripnbang]

Why is this news? Those that live in the area know about fire ants. Those that don’t, don’t need to.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Floating Fire Ants sounds like a good nickname for the Washington Football Team.

[suthener]

This is what I always use as an example of ignorant reporting. Some young reporter “discovers” this phenomenon every time we have a hurricane. It ain’t nothing new, and all adults are aware of it.

[moovova]

As long as they’re not floating in my commode...

That would sure wake you up.

[jmcenanly]

I guess that the Murder Hornets didn’t pan out.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I once was playing golf in Galveston, my ball was 6 inches from a bush, and I had to back into the bush to get a good swing.

Unfortunately, the “bush” was brush growing on a large fire ant mound. Ouch.

[wardaddy]

West Jackson Mississippi circa 1965

Eisenhower street ....now stone cold Walking Dead looking ghetto

Little crackerjack homes then for white guys fresh from WWII

1000 sq ft max

My grandmothers home then

I got in a fight with kid next door

I won and retired to my grandpas pickup bed tail gate down to savor my victory

Meanwhile the defeated had dug up a mound of fire ants and snuck up and dumped them on my bare back....100s or 1000s....about ten pounds of seething nest

My back was covered in bites

I had to be rushed to emergency room and given pretty serious doses of Benadryl drip and adrenaline ...

And a leeching cream applied to my back to try to extract the venom

I barely remember it since I passed out

Weirdly though now when they get me I just itch mostly

They are not common in middle Tennessee...fairly uncommon actually but south Mississippi they are omnipresent

When I was a kid they utilized WWII bombers outfitted with tanks of Myrex....malathion......to air spray for them squadron style

Of course same folks who stopped DDT FOG stopped that