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Re: Bill's on fire ants and killing the queen

Janet Wintermute wrote:
  My employer, USDA's Animal and
> Plant Health Inspection Service, has been doing fire-ant research for
> decades now, and the silver bullet has not been found.

     Sure has been a silver bullet found.  I found it.  After years of
fighting an expensive and unsuccessful battle against fire ants on my
property, I declared them a benificial insect.  The fire ant is a
predator of fleas and ticks and God knows what other nasties.  I put
that fact in the plus column.  Sure, if you put your hand in a mess of
them, you'll get bites and the bites will produce pustules.  But they
don't hurt nearly as much as hitting your thumb nail with a hammer.  So
I also put that in the plus column.  Hell, they are even less
uncomfortable than 90 degree weather and 100 percent humidity - what we
Louisianians face when we work our gardens.  Another check on the plus
side.
     Facts are: they're here, they're tough, you are going to lose if
you fight them.  Surrender, declare victory and join the fire ant fan
club.  Then get on with the fun parts of gardening.
                              Dick
                              sitstay@premier.net

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