paghat wrote:

snip
I was a kid when fire ants reached the Pacific Northwest & my
great-grampa used to drench them with gasoline & set fire to their
nests. Not a wise method, but the gasoline drench if not the fire
tended to get rid of them.
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http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/lockley/antmap2.gif is a map of
imported fire ant distribution in 1996.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/maps/fireant.pdf is a map of imported fire
ant distribution in April 2004

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/ispm/f...ackground.html Background
information on the imported fire ant.

From reading the above pages I don't think we have imported fire ants in
the PNW and if you know of some here I suggest you report that to the
USDA.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5