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leo 50
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 09:20:43 AM
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question: i been reading the posts here and seen a lot about the fireants.can you not kill these things by killing the queen? to kim; as a child i use to plant firecrakers in ant hills and well---
not something i am proud of now,but be glad your kids only knock them over. not much to do with barefooting,but just wanted to know. plus going south to vaction this year,are those things out in early april in the florida panhandle?
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Cheri
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 09:28:05 AM
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Leo, Not that easy. :)
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Kimberly
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 Posted - 02/12/2004 : 11:10:34 AM
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Leo 50;
They had signs warning people to stay away from the mounds. The club sprayed and put poison out, but after it rained the mounds came back up. The first thing the kids did was to go disturb the mounds. Sure enough, both boys got stung. But did they learn? No they went right back and did it again. I think they had some so called adult males telling them about putting fire crackers in the ant mounds etc.
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sailordave
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 12:16:21 PM
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Putting a firecracker in a fire ant mound won't kill the queen. What makes the fire ants so hard to get rid of is how deep under ground the queen actually is. Only way to really kill the hill is to put out a type of poison that they love to eat. But you have to put out enough to feed the scouts and workers then they take some back to feed the queen. Eventually, their stomach messes up and they starve to death. They are especially dangerous in and after heavy rain. The ants form a large ball of ants that float on top of the water. The queen and some of the eggs or larvae is hidden inside the moving ball. When the floating ball hits a tree, house, car, or person's leg they quickly begin climbing up out of the water. Some kids were playing in flood water and one required an ambulance to take him to the hospital when that ball hit his leg. He had on rubber boots and didn't feel the ants crawling up his leg until they got past the boot. He started running and that got them all biting. He had thousands of bites between his knee and his groin area and yes even on his privates. Anyone who's ever been bitten by them can groan loudly in sympathy pain.
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Cheri
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 5:02:54 PM
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I've ended up in the ER after multiple bites. They climb up the leg, shoe, whatever and one is the lead and sends a signal for them all to sting at once.
I end up with large pustules now but seem to be less sensitive than 10 yrs. ago. My first sting was at - - in 1990.
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Bikeracer
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 5:56:52 PM
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Ouch Dave and Cheri! I don't know about no stinkin' fire ants but they seem nasty...Continuing on the fringe of these posts..I was in Southeast Texas last weekend amongst all the bayou's and swamps. I casually asked my friend if there were any alligators in those parts like in the everglades, etc. I was thinking it would be fun to go exploring on foot. She said in her Cajun accent how just down the street from her house a three foot long 'gator was found in someone's backyard...Yikes! I changed my mind straight away upon hearing that!
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sailordave
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 6:02:43 PM
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First time I heard about the floating ball of fire ants, I didn't believe it. First time I saw one, I ran the opposite direction away from it. That ball was so big I originally thought it was a big mass of floating mulch. Was much larger than a softball. As for my yard and bare feet, not yet. When I first moved here, didn't have regular grass. This trailer park was once a farmer's field and had laid unused for many years. Walking through the yard one day after moving in revealed the danger of bare feet. The soles of my shoes were a solid layer of burrs. Some with stickers so long that I ended up throwing the shoes away cause I couldn't pull it all out without the sticker being left in. Am working on rye and bermuda grass and hopefully it will over take the sticker plants.
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sailordave
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 6:06:55 PM
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But gator taste so good! Knew this old cajun who used to catch a gator, skin it (either sold or made stuff with), ground up the meat from the legs and the small part of the tail, and made steaks from the big part of the tail. He marinated the steaks overnite in the fridge then fired up the grill for gator steaks, gator sausage, and gator burgers. Yummmmm yum!
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Ouch Dave and Cheri! I don't know about no stinkin' fire ants but they seem nasty...Continuing on the fringe of these posts..I was in Southeast Texas last weekend amongst all the bayou's and swamps. I casually asked my friend if there were any alligators in those parts like in the everglades, etc. I was thinking it would be fun to go exploring on foot. She said in her Cajun accent how just down the street from her house a three foot long 'gator was found in someone's backyard...Yikes! I changed my mind straight away upon hearing that!
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leo 50
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 7:07:52 PM
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ouch! i knew the things were there of course,but did not realize they were that bad,or did the foating thing when it rained.thanks gang!bowing out for now.
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calmnude
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 9:36:45 PM
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think our annual warning on fire ants is a good one. getting eaten by them can definitely ruin a vacation. and dave, i do feel sympathy pain for the youngster bitten by the ant ball. (cringe/shiver).
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Kimberly
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 10:07:23 PM
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- - was where we encountered the fire ants. I know how much pain the boys were in with one two bites, I can not imagine thousands. Cheri you are lucky, I have heard that people have died from fire ant bites.
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Paul DS
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 12:02:49 AM
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Thanks for all the info about fire ants. I've seen some pics on the web of people who got stung a hundred times on the arm and the pustules it makes. I guess the best thing is to avoid the ant hill and floating ant balls. I never heard of the floating ant ball before. If I'm down south I'll be careful.
I'm fortunate we don't have fire ants up here. I haven't come across sticker grass either, just soft comfortable grass. I feel lucky.
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Kimberly
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 08:18:58 AM
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I guess living in the north does has its advantages, no fire ants or sticker weed, but one thing is common, mosquitoes!
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toosunni
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 08:41:17 AM
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Kimberly, mosquitoes are more common than i ever thought. I saw a nature show that was filmed near the artic circle. And guess what was swarming everywhere - mosquitoes! I guess that means they are hardier than the cockroach.
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irishred
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 09:14:43 AM
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Kim you beat me to the "punch line." I guess an advantage of living in the more northern climates is no fire ants. Mosquitos and the horse flies are a pain in the summertime. lol
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