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Fire ants?
For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone?
I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. |
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Fire ants?
charliekilo wrote:
For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Arby's is having a roast beef sale........... |
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"charliekilo" wrote in message
... For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Here, the mounds are gone, but fire ants are still there. A different sub-species is present at the side of the front steps on my porch. They are a more burgundy color. Other normal colored fire ants are all over the place, minus mounds out at my place. Got feedback on lack of mounds, its lack of water. They build mounds when it rains or similar to that. -- Dave |
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"charliekilo" wrote: For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Drought. They propagate a lot when it rains. I've not many either. Now is the time to kill what you DO have while we have the chance. eg -- Peace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote in message
m... "charliekilo" wrote in message ... For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Here, the mounds are gone, but fire ants are still there. A different sub-species is present at the side of the front steps on my porch. They are a more burgundy color. Other normal colored fire ants are all over the place, minus mounds out at my place. Got feedback on lack of mounds, its lack of water. They build mounds when it rains or similar to that. -- Dave I didn't have any mounds in my area last year when we had lots of rain...I just have a bunch of tiny ants everywhere this year. |
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"charliekilo" wrote in message
... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message m... "charliekilo" wrote in message ... For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Here, the mounds are gone, but fire ants are still there. A different sub-species is present at the side of the front steps on my porch. They are a more burgundy color. Other normal colored fire ants are all over the place, minus mounds out at my place. Got feedback on lack of mounds, its lack of water. They build mounds when it rains or similar to that. -- Dave I didn't have any mounds in my area last year when we had lots of rain...I just have a bunch of tiny ants everywhere this year. You seemed confident in the original post that all were fire ants. Now, they're "tiny ants". Interesting. -- Dave |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote in message
m... "charliekilo" wrote in message ... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message m... "charliekilo" wrote in message ... For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen. Here, the mounds are gone, but fire ants are still there. A different sub-species is present at the side of the front steps on my porch. They are a more burgundy color. Other normal colored fire ants are all over the place, minus mounds out at my place. Got feedback on lack of mounds, its lack of water. They build mounds when it rains or similar to that. -- Dave I didn't have any mounds in my area last year when we had lots of rain...I just have a bunch of tiny ants everywhere this year. You seemed confident in the original post that all were fire ants. Now, they're "tiny ants". Interesting. -- Dave Maybe I miscommunicated but I can tell what is a fire ant, both the domestic and imported South American fire ant, with a high degree of confidence....especially when they sting me while working in the yard! Both those varieties are generally about 1/8" long and reddish brown to black in color. What I have now, are black in color and only about 1/16" or smaller in size...like what we called "sugar ants" when I was growing up on the east coast. These small ants I have now seem to like plants as I see them mostly on my native xeriscape-type plants -- but they don't seem to be doing any damage. |
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