canesisters
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I noticed 2 suspicious dirt hills that have appeared in Eva's pasture over the past week. I hope they're not fire ants !!
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Mini Horses
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If only a couple, boiling water, then ammonia. I have more ant hills this year than I have ever seen. And we're talking big ones!! The little SOBs are fast to attack. I've been nursing a mass attack from hitting into an "unseen" one last week! They're vicious. I'm ordering the TX-2step @fuzzi used.
Baymule
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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.
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If you poke the mound with a stick and the ants "boil" out, those are fire ants. They seem to shake, too. They will crawl up your boots or gloves to find your flesh. I use a baking soda and water paste on fresh stings.
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The first step is usually enough, the birth control pellets. You can see them in my video. I save the second step, the poison, for those mounds that refuse to die.
Be careful using around animals.
Baymule
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I have animals everywhere, so none of that for me. My Daddy fought them with everything he had, including gasoline and fire. dig a hole in the pound, quickly. Pour gasoline in if, throw a match on it. clap a metal trash can lid on it to force fumes and fire in the mound. Roasted, toasted, fumeagated, and dead.
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My baby brother got swarmed with fire ants in Universal City TX when he was a toddler. I'll never forget the screams and me and Mother putting him in the bathtub with water to get the ants off of him. He's 61 now. Wonder if he remembers?
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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.
SageHill
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When I found a couple fire ant mounds on the ranch a few years ago I tried a bunch of things folks and internet said worked. Well, some slowed them down, but the be-all end-all was something I picked up at Home Depot. It's at the barn - I'll check and see what it was.
