I'm surprised you have them, Jim. I would have thought your winters would
be cold enough to keep them in check.
Charlie
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just noticed a fresh mound at my back property line. I guess I better
> give it another try.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 10/9/2015 1:58 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
>> They can only be managed, Jim, not eliminated. I regularly patrol my
>> lawn
>> and place poison bait on the nascent mounds. Helps if the neighbors do the
>> same as it takes longer for them to move back in. Clemson University has
>> been experimenting with a South American fly that hunts them and they are
>> effective, but officials are rightly reluctant to introduce another
>> non-native species. That plan often backfires.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> As you know, Charlie, hardly anything can kill them. Commercial ant
>>> poison doesn't seem to bother them.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/9/2015 1:43 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the odd things to come out of this weather event. Around here
>>>> we
>>>> have a particularly nasty species of ant called Fire Ants. They were
>>>> introduced into Texas from South America back in the 1940's and over
>>>> time
>>>> have spread all over the southeast. They are very aggressive and have a
>>>> nasty bite that forms a pustule that is slow to heal. Any hope that this
>>>> weather event would drown these suckers was dashed when someone saw
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://abc7.com/weather/ants-form-floating-island-to-combat-flooding-in-south-carolina/1021709/
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
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