Fire Ants!
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I was feeling pretty good about my Fire Ant annihilation program, until this last rain and until I read up a little on their biology.
I was killing them like I would kill bees. Evidently it works, but not as well as I thought it did. In the last two days I've treated no less than 100 mounds in my yard with a mixture of granules from two famous ant killers from Home Depot (I don't remember what they were). I disturb the heck out of them with a cultivator fork and then pour the granules on them. It seemed to be killing them fine until two days ago. The mounds I treated yesterday still had ants in them this morning.
As I understand it there are a good number of ants in a mound that are capable of becoming a queen and starting a colony on their own and there are multiple queens in most mounds laying up to 1500 eggs/day.
It's a wonder they haven't taken over the Earth.
Alan
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