i admit it....i kick and destroy fire ant nests....

[Gato Moteado]

....just for the fun of watching the angry little bastards run around like crazy.

try it to get out your frustrations...just get out of the way once they start swarming.

[procrastinator]

1. They're all over our apartment complex

Yeh, I kick them too every once in a while.

Just don't do it in bare feet or flipflops!

[fknobbit]

16. Shake up 1 tsp boric acid powder, 3 tsp sugar, 2cups water

in any container and pour some into lids (I use mayo) strategical placed in or near their trails, and put in a small amount of peppermint, irresistible to the Lil buggers . Give em a while to fully find it and watch their volume slow down daily until gone. They have successfully took it to the Queen and did her in, as well.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Don't let PETA find out.....

They frown on those who destroy insect habitats.

:)

[procrastinator]

5. You can't destroy

the habitat of the RIFA

They can't really even be slowed down....

[GOPisEvil]

3. Come to my yard.

I have ants of many varieties.

[Gato Moteado]

10. yes, i do need to come by your place...

...we need to do something with your yard now that the cooler weather is here. i have access to a tiller. let's put some nice trees and landscaping back there and have a DU party before i leave the country.

[GOPisEvil]

11. Let's do it!

Till this crap - get rid of these crappy trees and shrubs...plant some good stuff...

[Gato Moteado]

12. when you say "good stuff", do you really mean.....

"good stuff"? as in "wow, man, that is some good stuff...cough cough"?

[GOPisEvil]

13. Uh, not out in the yard.

But indoors? I'll never admit it publicly.

O8)

[spatlese]

4. I don't kick them..

I find the longest stick around and mess up the nest... but their bites are NASTY!

[procrastinator]

6. Actually they sting

and can do so multiple times. (They bite also, with their mandibles, mainly to get a better grip so they can plunge their stingers in deeper!)

[Tweed]

7. Is this one of those coming out threads?

I thought all the Freepers were doing that on election night...

:shrug:

[hatrack]

8. You've got tougher feet than I do!

Though mine probably smell worse . . . :toast:

[blm]

9. I'm meaner. I pour clorox bleach on the nest and follow with a gallon of

boiling water to spread the clorox deeper into the nest. They rarely pop up again.

[Gato Moteado]

14. i did the boiling water attack without the clorox once.

it seemed to do the trick. if you get the queen, i think you successfully destroy the colony.

[Misunderestimator]

15. If you spread dried grits on their anthills, they eat them and explode

at least that's what I've heard... never tried it on the buggers yet, they are nearly invincible here.

I also heard last week on NPR that there is some fly that will lays its eggs inside ants, and (like in Alien) the larva eventually explodes out of the ant host, having eaten its way through it... then the adult fly goes on to lay its eggs in the nest in other ants. Creepy, eh?

[HEyHEY]

17. Hey man, it's you or them right?