[Red Badger]

The Ant Sweeping the Southeastern U.S. Image: Joe A. MacGown with the Mississippi Entomological Museum

[Mercat]

I hate ants. I fell into a fire ant nest when I was about 5 and had nightmares for years afterwards. I cannot watch a documentary on ants. Snakes and spiders, no problem.... it’s ants. One reason I’ll not return to Texas.

[null and void]

In other news, obama’s crazy aunt’s funeral is scheduled for Thursday...

[Right Brother]

Are these the crazy aunts everyone warned me about? Are they usually found in the attic?

[Red Badger]

Garden Ping!......................

[februus]

Tawny Crazy ant invasion, that’s racist. Just “acts of love” don’t you know.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I was battling with them for a few years until I figured out which poison to use to get rid of them (the liquid baits)

[mkmensinger]

[PLMerite]

Sorry, wrong kind of crazy aunt.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is a biological trick used against fire ants, in which you get a glass jar and put a little honey in it, then set it next to their nest. When a bunch of ants get in there, pour in two cups of boiling water to kill them, then seal the jar and bring it inside.

Then you leave in in a cool, dark place for a couple of weeks, and hopefully some mold will grow on it. Then you pour it on their nest, and hopefully, it not only wipes out that nest, but one or two adjacent nests.

Since this trick seems to work for fire ants, I wonder how it might work against crazy ants.

There are a few problems, for example, there are no obvious above ground signs of their nests, which they exit and enter through small holes in the ground, even for a giant nest. So getting the plague inside it might be difficult.

But we won’t know unless we try.

[trisham]

I hate ants. They’re destructive and have a painful bite/sting.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I have a crazy aunt. She’s not really insane, but she is kinda crazy.

[Constitution Day]

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.