On 9/5/2017 6:44 PM, T wrote:
On 09/04/2017 02:14 PM, George Shirley wrote:
Those of you out there that don't have fire ants consider yourselves
blessed. We're in the progress of pouring boiling water down our
biggest pest in the gardens home. This fire ant village comes to the
surface at various places around our raised gardens and the boiling
water is one way to get rid of them. Most likely the ants are five to
fifteen feet deep and have multiple queens who lay eggs continuously.

Fire ants can really hurt you and your pets just by getting on you in
swarms and bite you and inject something that will make you hurt for a
while and leaves pustules.

They will even make their own rafts if their area floods, the ant ball
moves constantly to avoid drowning, they protect the queens and eggs
as much as possible. Came here to Texas from ships coming into port
from South America about the time I was growing up, probably
mid-fifties, I have scars from getting into the !@#$%^ ants path as a
teen out hunting and fishing or just running the woods for the hell of
it. (lived close to large ports on the Gulf Coast) Nowadays they are
every where in Texas.

My lovely wife is putting gallons of boiling water down their exit
hole and chortling while she does it. I just hope it works.

George, scratching his legs again


I heard somewhere that ants don't like vinegar.Â* You
ever try that?

Dunno, but I once learned that the German name for formic acid,
Ameisensäure, is ant acid as that is where it was first discovered.
Formic is stronger than acetic.