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They have the 'crazy' ants in south Louisiana and they wreak havoc with electrical devices. From what I've read, they get in the electrical boxes, build their nest, and short out everything. Really bad about getting into houses, too.
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we've had fireants invade the electrical controls of our well pump in middle Ga. they have to be dealt with in terms of termination.
like kudzu, they have to be eradicated. persona non grata and all of that.
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we've had fireants invade the electrical controls of our well pump in middle Ga. they have to be dealt with in terms of terminatio
like kudzu, they have to be eradicated. persona non grata and all of that. We've had fire ants get into the pump switch, also. The crazy ants will get into almost every electrical outlet, box, etc. Way worse than fire ants do.
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She just came in after mowing with an ant attack on her left ankle. Get yerself some scrap aluminum and have fun! She jumped in the pool when she discovered them on her.
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She just came in after mowing with an ant attack on her left ankle. Get yerself some scrap aluminum and have fun! She jumped in the pool when she discovered them on her. Last year when the In-laws were living in Florida the FIL got hit in the right foot with a few fire ants and it had his foot messed up for about a month and a half. Be nice to her and mow the lawn Ed. 
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Had seen the clip before and liked it then. Coincidentally built a small charcoal fired blast furnace last weekend as a 'just cause' experiment and can tell you it melts beer cans like no body's business...but it's not a good idea to produce all of those melted beer cans in one sitting of beer drinking. Boy Howdy that liquid aluminum is hot!
For a minute I wished I had an anthill to dump it on but good Gawd; Fire ants and CRAZY ants, that crap has me welcoming a good freeze this winter. No thanks!
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I used to live in central Georgia. Had fire ants all over the yard and I killed them all.
I noticed then that my dog and cat had all kinds of ticks.
I figured, fire ants must eat ticks.
So I let the fire ants return. Took 2 years and I had a dozen mounds in the yard, just like before.
Like magic, there were no ticks on the dog and cat.
That was pretty good sport, but then I moved to the mountains of North Carolina. We have no fire ants up here.
Can't say I miss them what a plague they are on central Georgia.
I remember when I was a kid in Georgia in the early sixties, they were bombing fire ants. Had some kind of fire ant poison, it looked like Grape Nuts cereal.
We would be out playing Little League in 1962 and a bomber would come over and you could feel the little pellets hitting your arms and bouncing off your baseball hat.
Seemed like a good idea but didn't work too well in the long run.
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I used to live in central Georgia. Had fire ants all over the yard and I killed them all.
I noticed then that my dog and cat had all kinds of ticks.
I figured, fire ants must eat ticks.
So I let the fire ants return. Took 2 years and I had a dozen mounds in the yard, just like before.
Like magic, there were no ticks on the dog and cat.
That was pretty good sport, but then I moved to the mountains of North Carolina. We have no fire ants up here.
Can't say I miss them what a plague they are on central Georgia.
I remember when I was a kid in Georgia in the early sixties, they were bombing fire ants. Had some kind of fire ant poison, it looked like Grape Nuts cereal.
We would be out playing Little League in 1962 and a bomber would come over and you could feel the little pellets hitting your arms and bouncing off your baseball hat.
Seemed like a good idea but didn't work too well in the long run. just saw your post on the fireant wars. that chemical sprayed from planes was called mirex. it was on ground up corncobs for bait. as long as the spraying went on, Georgia was free from fireants. we had them stopped at the river. but, the dept of Agriculture blinked because of environmental pressures from city folks about indiscriminate spraying (broadcasting). the abandoned the effort, and fireants immediately invaded and have since taken over. it has helped the chemical companies make a fortune selling retail level insecticides that might half work, half of the time.
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there is a new species of ant that has been introduced that wipes out the fire ant - and they don't bite humans
the down side is they love to mass inside the walls of houses and short out electronics.
I can't remember where they are but there is a pocket of them in the south and they are slowly spreading out. Well, do they sting?
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a buddy and i blew up a red ant bed in his Caliche drive way with propane.. his dad was not happy.
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well, if Texas horned Lizards eat crazy ants, then we're good. 
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If you pee on a fire ant mound every day for a week or two straight, they get pissed off and move. I have ridded my backyard of fire ants before with nothing more than the power of my pecker.
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I think I read somewhere that fire ants take out just about every living insect with a certain radius of their mound - no other insect life (or maybe its just other ants) can survive.
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One of the major causes of Quail population decline is that fire ants eat all the small invertibrates that quail chicks used to eat before they get big enough to eat grass hoppers etc. Those bigger ticks also fed baby quail.
I much prefer baby quail and ticks to fire ants.
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If you pee on a fire ant mound every day for a week or two straight, they get pissed off and move. I have ridded my backyard of fire ants before with nothing more than the power of my pecker. Wouldn't that be "pissed on and move"?
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I think I read somewhere that fire ants take out just about every living insect with a certain radius of their mound - no other insect life (or maybe its just other ants) can survive. yes. when we have fireants, we have far fewer fleas in the yard (and termites). with less fireants it does help the quail. but all of our quail has long since been depredated by feral cats, coons, possums and coyotes & loss of habitat.
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I spray stuff in the house to keep out the bugs. I spray and cast other stuff outside to keep the ants away. Then I spray the dog-chit outa the damn weeds. If the flippin' EPA ever gets a whiff of my place it'll be a superfund site! They'll dig a hole big enough to hide an aircraft carrier and haul the dirt off to Alabama!
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