On 9/5/2017 5:44 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?
Yeah, they looked like they liked the taste of it. A few drowned the
rest just went on with their business. The one bed of ants we have has
either given up and moved after the boiling water hit them or they've
gone deep down to get ready to get us. We shall see how it all works.

We only have this one nest, asked around and no one else seems to be
bothered. Our subdivision sits on five feet of gumbo clay, put in to get
the houses above the flood zone that requires more insurance. I know we
didn't bring them with us and, they only pop up once or twice a year.
They may be harvesting the pipeline right of way behind our fence and
then found their lunch room called our vegetable garden. We shall see in
the coming weeks.