Fire Ants in the US

I agree fire ants are a real problem.You can drive along the interstates in the south and see mounds of them every few feet.And this goes on for Hundres of miles.!

It looks like an army staging an attack!We need to do something fast.A few stings to a succeptable human can be fatal, and very painful at the least.

The Phoric Wasp is being tried in some areas, but not much success with the head start the fire ants have.

I hope the sugar ant method works.

Yes! The sugar ant chases the fire ant right to the queen and kills any fire ant found. It does not bite humans and is harmless, but likes sugar. So keep your sugar products away from it

Perhaps ants will inherit the Earth. I read once that there is more protein in ant tissue on Earth than in all other animals combine.

When the Bible said "The meek should inherit the earth" maybe they're talking about Sugar Ants.

MidniteFighter

Being from south Alabama I came up with a sure fire method to kill these ants. It in volves an oxy-acetalyne torch so I will not explain (for safety reasons) other than to say the 1st couple of trys ended with me having ants blown all over me. The good thing I noticed is that they were all dead. The method puts no long term chemicals in the soil, it kills even the queen ant and it only takes a few minutes to do. I have performed this on 1000's of fire ant beds and have never found one ant to survive. We have ants so bad down here that I have somtimes eradicated as many as 50 ant hills one yard in a few hours.

Tigwelder

Unless you definitively kill the queen fire ant within seconds of attacking the nest with your oxy-acetylene device (or every one of the multiple queens found in most US nests), all you are achieving is causing the colony to shift their queen/s and brood through their extensive underground tunnel systems, or split into multiple sub-colonies.

No wonder you keep finding so many nests in your neighbourhood.

Respect your enemy's survival abilities, and sneak up on them using a targetted insect growth inhibitor in bait brought back and fed to the queen by her daughters. And try to get your neighbours to do the same thing at the same time.

Something I wonder about... Sugar ants like sugar cane... which wouldn't bother us much in the continental US, but what about sugar beets? The critters might get rid of fire ants, but if they were to destroy the sugar beet crop, it would seem like not a good idea.

hi tell me wat is a fire ant, and will it produce fire, and cause forest burn,

sugar ants r black in color, and attracted towards the sugar, if we pour kerosene or tumeric powder it will be go away .

Sugar ants do not attack "growing" plants! They are attracted to refined products with sugar content. (That is why this ant is also used to check for diabetic patients' urines- if it is attracted to it, then the person is diabetic). Being 20 times smaller than the fire ants, the sugar ant freely enters all underground tunnels and invades the whole colony, attacking and killing every fire ant including their queens or whatever.

No hassles. No costs. No environmental or agricultural side effects. Somebody should try the sugar ant out!

Fire ants are small brown ants that live in warm climates. They don't produce fire, they bite - and the bite burns like fire! The bite area swells up and turns red and hurts like anything.

A swarm of fire ants can actually kill a much larger animal, like a cow, if the animal is wounded and can't get away.

Any truth to the rumor that fire ants are attracted to underground electrical cables?

RE: Fire Ants in the US

My ant was fired once, and my uncle was very upset.

I'm sure he wouldn't agree with you!

Not to forget, your mother, wife or daughter could be somebody's ant.