Does Anybody Know Anything About Fire Ants?

[musclemom]

Or a good, practical website you could point me to?

I've lived in PA all of my life. We have a vacation place down on the Eastern Shore ... I think we've got fire ants

Now I know what I'm looking at when I see them come boiling out of the nest from vibration, but nothing like that happened. However, my husband came back from our vacation with a couple of insect bites on his legs that were so wicked I was afraid he got bit by a brown recluse. It took nearly 3 weeks for one to heal.

A few days ago I put on a pair of pants that I had taken on vacation with me but hadn't worn, so they never left the duffel. I felt something like pin pricks and here there's this ant on me. It looked like a regular brown ant (I've had on/off problems with sugar ants here at the house). Now I'm all broken out in horrible welts where that fucker bit me. I've never had that happen before. Then we're researching it on the internet and here fucking fire ants have made it to the eastern shore. FUCK ME.

What the fuck do I do to get rid of these evil little shits?!?

 

[MichaelScott]

try this one don't know how good it is
fireant.tamu.edu/materials/factsheets_pubs

 

[AAP]

Lots of myths out there for getting rid of them. Grits, boiling water, driving a metal rod in the ground and then using a car battery to electrocute the entire nest...

Satans minions... that what those little bastards are.

 

[redguru]

Fire ants are a little red ant. Their mounds are huge, comparitively. Bayer makes a really good killer. http://www.bayeradvanced.com/product/Fire-Ant-Killer/dust.html

 

[musclemom]

Lots of myths out there for getting rid of them. Grits, boiling water, driving a metal rod in the ground and then using a car battery to electrocute the entire nest...

Satans minions... that what those little bastards are.

OMG, Truly the nastiest little fuckers! I never saw them until we went to see my son graduate basic at Lackland. He was like "Hey mom, look at this!" and he taps the ground and they charged out. Then he proceeded to show me the push-up side hop you learn how to do if the drill instructor tells you to get on your face in close vicinity of a fire ant mound.

Shit like that is why I won't consider moving too far south, as much as I hate the winter, I fucking HATE nasty ass insects. Snakes I can handle, not bugs, nope.

 

[AAP]

Fireants are like hillbillies running low on moonshine. Eternally pissed off. They are like the piranahas of the insect world. Bitches got nothing better to do than to sit around making plans to ruin your whole fucking day.

Wait until you get bit by one. The bite mark swells up with a large white center like a mega pimple from hell.

 

[H_T_]

cover yourself with honey and do log rolls over the nest.

 

[redguru]

Fireants are like hillbillies running low on moonshine. Eternally pissed off. They are like the piranahas of the insect world. Bitches got nothing better to do than to sit around making plans to ruin your whole fucking day.

Wait until you get bit by one. The bite mark swells up with a large white center like a mega pimple from hell.

When I was in the Navy I was cutting grass at a transmitter site in Jacksonville. The grass was about knee deep and I stepped directly into a fire-ant mound, and sunk to my calf. Instantly I had a million fire ants declaring war on my leg. Never been stung by them before. I ripped my pants, sock and shoe off and washed them off with a firehose. Within 8 hours I looked like I had the worst case of acne known to man on my leg and it hurt and itched like hell. I hate them with every fiber of my being.

 

[musclemom]

Fireants are like hillbillies running low on moonshine. Eternally pissed off. They are like the piranahas of the insect world. Bitches got nothing better to do than to sit around making plans to ruin your whole fucking day.

Wait until you get bit by one. The bite mark swells up with a large white center like a mega pimple from hell.

That's why I thought my husband had gotten spider bitten, because he never noticed the bite and I all saw was this monster raised welt with a white center.

I got four of those fucking welts on my belly right now. Emu oil actually has helped a LOT (shit's fucking miracle oil).

 

[musclemom]

When I was in the Navy I was cutting grass at a transmitter site in Jacksonville. The grass was about knee deep and I stepped directly into a fire-ant mound, and sunk to my calf. Instantly I had a million fire ants declaring war on my leg. Never been stung by them before. I ripped my pants, sock and shoe off and washed them off with a firehose. Within 8 hours I looked like I had the worst case of acne known to man on my leg and it hurt and itched like hell. I hate them with every fiber of my being.

 

[AAP]

Now would be a good time to consider summoning that demon to kill them off.

They say if you get the queen, the whole nest will die. But no, they just fucking elect another queen.

 

[heatherrae]

Or a good, practical website you could point me to?

I've lived in PA all of my life. We have a vacation place down on the Eastern Shore ... I think we've got fire ants

Now I know what I'm looking at when I see them come boiling out of the nest from vibration, but nothing like that happened. However, my husband came back from our vacation with a couple of insect bites on his legs that were so wicked I was afraid he got bit by a brown recluse. It took nearly 3 weeks for one to heal.

A few days ago I put on a pair of pants that I had taken on vacation with me but hadn't worn, so they never left the duffel. I felt something like pin pricks and here there's this ant on me. It looked like a regular brown ant (I've had on/off problems with sugar ants here at the house). Now I'm all broken out in horrible welts where that fucker bit me. I've never had that happen before. Then we're researching it on the internet and here fucking fire ants have made it to the eastern shore. FUCK ME.

What the fuck do I do to get rid of these evil little shits?!?

LOL...you remember the threads about how much I HATE those things? !!!! OMG.

The best thing that I found was the bait that you sprinkle on the nests or about the yard. They take it back to the queen and it destroys the entire mound.

Good luck. They have a nasty means of defense. They all crawl on you, and then one gives the signal and they all bite at the same time. The first day, it burns and itches really bad. Then, two days later a large pustule that looks like a pimple raises up and that hurts and itches again. You will know it was a fire ant because of the big pimple. Also, they tend to hang on where they bite until you brush them off of you.

 

[Y_lifter]

I have tried the various commercial stuff on the mounds and the entire yard.
Most all of them work, just that Amdro seems to work the best because it is
a bait. If you are sprinkling it on the visible mounds and miss a small submound, they will carry it there, vs the normal chemical stuff you water in etc..

I have kept them 95% out of the yard for 3+ years, but its nearly impossible to never have them. You should put amdro on any visible mounds you have and then also go back and spread the entire yard with a spreader and the big bag of amdro. It isn't cheap, but I think it works the best of the types you can get at the store due to its strong bait attraction with the bastards..

 

[Scotsman]

I suggest napalm.

It's my all purpose life elixir.

Then you may have to resort to TNS.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Y_lifter]

Growing up, I played on many Soccer fields that always had shit tons of these
bitches all over it in the spring. 50+ mounds from one end to the other.

The ball would roll across a mound and get covered in the things.
Then you would kick it and they would fly all over your bare legs and eat you up.

Misery trying to deal with that in the middle of a game.