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COLD TOLERANT FIRE ANTS
Associated Press
| July 5, 2002
| ELLIOTT MINOR
Posted on 07/05/2002 6:28:18 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Nita Nupress; OldSmaj
Nita! You could be Sarge's first guest on 'Garden Wars'. ;^)
To: Nita Nupress
For years I have avoided fire ants by living in Ca. Now I am about to move back into their territory. Maybe I will have to get one of those flame throwers.
To: general_re
I wonder if the old bunker buster gopher disposal method could work here - first you run a gallon of gas into the hole, then you run water (to carry the gas to the far reaches), then you run another quarter gallon of gas. Toss in an M-80. Don't do this next to a retaining wall....
To: Nita Nupress
my toddler was attacked by hundreds of these evil, vile creatures and had to be taken to the hospital I once got so many bites on one leg that I became ill. Nasty little buggers.
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:05:17 AM PDT
by
Flyer
To: headsonpikes
I haven't had the pleasure of using the flamethrower yet. What a great idea!
To: KC_for_Freedom
Maybe I will have to get one of those flame throwers. Let's go for Industrial Strength!
To: tacticalogic
Sounds like a plan, but I think you'd want the soil be a little damp... Nah, just gotta up the juice ;)
To: Technocrat
Don't do this next to a retaining wall.... That gets my vote as understatement of the year ;)
To: Flyer
"Nasty little buggers" is right! Look at him. He's just
begging to be killed!

I don't want to gross anyone out so I'll just post a link. Go here to see what kind of damage these Instruments of Satan can do: www.emedicine.com/ derm/topic607.htm
To: dtel
I swear you can hear the little bastards scream. I like the way you think.
To: Hacksaw
I have my fire ants under control. Any ideas on how to destroy the Sierra Club?
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:29:52 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bob
To: Nita Nupress
To: Nita Nupress
Evil Grin.
They truly are voracious, went to work one morning and my cat had killed and left a mouse by the driveway, got home that evening and the only thing left was a clean and I do mean clean skeleton and a small pile of hair. Hair being the only thing these dudes won't eat.
We should have a nation wide Fire Ant Eradication Day, talk about fireworks, yeehaw.
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:33:37 AM PDT
by
dtel
To: American Preservative
I got it, If I could spell it I would give you all my secret method>smile
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:35:31 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bob
To: Savage Beast
"I never realized that Mobile is such a hotbed of unwanted species immigration." You've just heard about the insects. Wait till some of these weird plants get to your neighborhood. I especially dislike Jap (Coogan) Grass.
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:39:06 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Dallas
Several years ago, an eighteen year old co-worker of mine found an anthill and decided to have some fun. He got a can of WD-40 (or something similar) and sprayed it down the hill. Then waited a few minutes, and sprayed it again. Then he took his trusty Bic and...Poof!
He spent the next half hour picking dead ants off his face and out of his hair.
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posted on
07/05/2002 9:45:34 AM PDT
by
luigi
To: 2sheep; Nita Nupress
Fire ants are awful. No matter how closely a parent watches their little kids, the children always manage to find a way to get stung. As bad as killer bees are, fire ants are worse. Not only have they been know to kill babies, they also kill animals.
I've tried eradicating them myself when I used to live in Louisiana. Impossible. They just come back stronger than ever!
Some people think I'm dorky, but I believe they are part of the Last Days scenario where the Bible talks about animal attacks.
To: Technocrat
Don't do this next to a retaining wall....This sounds like the voice of experience...What happened??
To: luigi
WD-40 doesn't have the reach that a can of wasp and hornet killer has (Raid is the best, IMO), but, using a straw, it will wipe out a wasp nest real good!
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posted on
07/05/2002 10:04:22 AM PDT
by
LRS
To: OldSmaj
After reading this thread, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one out there who gets strange satisfaction out of killing ants.
When I was a kid, I used to wage all out war against the local carpenter ant population. I burned them, stuck fire crackers in their nests, sprayed them with Raid...I even used to sit for hours at a time shooting them at close range with a BB pistol. (I probably scored more hits on myself with ricochets than I ever got on them.)
There's just something about the human psyche that delights in killing bugs in creative and cruel ways.
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