fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[fuzzi]

Never had them, never seen them except in pictures... Hope I NEVER have to deal with them... I will take the snakes, bears, deer aggravations... the raccoons, opossums and all that after the animals... even the deer flies and ticks.... cannot imagine ants that attack you.

And without provocation, like yellow jackets...

 

[fuzzi]

I hit the laughing emoji because I've had the little devils get in my closets ad clothing too. Lined up on the metal coat hangers, in the clothes.....AARRGGHHHH!!!!! Here on my little 25 acre ranch, I have fire ant mounds, crawfish mounds and in the unfenced back field, add in feral hog mounds and holes. Can't even walk back there. Not that I want to, I always take the tractor or the mule so I have something to run to if hogs appear.

Forgot to mention, I sprinkled real talcum powder behind my dresser and on the closet floor by the outside wall. The ants stopped advancing when they came to the talcum.

Talcum is hard to get, so I ordered mine through a company outside the USA.

 

[animalmom]

I've had good results with peppermint oil inside the house. I use Diatomaceous Earth (DE) outside... if I can find where they entered.

Outside, like in the grass, I use fire ant poison and a liberal application of DE. It works like a one-two punch, plus it helps me identify what has been treated as the DE stands out color wise.

We have some smaller fire ants that will take the poison and and move it away from the mound. These ants are called not nice names. I mean how dare they remove the poison. Really!

 

[Mini Horses]

Animals have been THE reason for no poisons. It's a concern and one I'll revisit before buying the stuff. You can only carry so much boiling water

When they bite you have a mess for days. I sprayed one wasp spray on one yesterday! Need to check it for any results

 

[fuzzi]

The big mound had some activity when I stirred it with a stick, but not as crazy busy as yesterday. The smaller mound appears dead.

If there's still sign of life tomorrow I'll dose it again.

 

[Baymule]

Never had them, never seen them except in pictures... Hope I NEVER have to deal with them... I will take the snakes, bears, deer aggravations... the raccoons, opossums and all that after the animals... even the deer flies and ticks.... cannot imagine ants that attack you.

They are sneaky. They swarm all over you, then send out the signal and they all bite at once. Not just one bite per ant, I think they must get in a couple thousand bites. or at least it feels like it.

 

[drstratton]

They are sneaky. They swarm all over you, then send out the signal and they all bite at once. Not just one bite per ant, I think they must get in a couple thousand bites. or at least it feels like it.

When I was a kid my mom got attacked by them when we lived in Florida, that's exactly how she described it. Ouch. They were working in an orange grove, I guess she just started ripping her clothes off and didn't care who was around...lol

 

[Baymule]

When I was a kid my mom got attacked by them when we lived in Florida, that's exactly how she described it. Ouch. They were working in an orange grove, I guess she just started ripping her clothes off and didn't care who was around...lol

That scene is played out all over the south every summer.

 

[fuzzi]

Clematis blooming, again, third time this year!

 

[Mini Horses]

What are those cute pink ones -- a zinnia? The way they're bunched up it's like marigolds.