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Bill's fantastic solution to the fire ant problem

At 09:16 AM 8/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>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

I do believe Dick has come up with the solution to my fire ant problem(?).
>From now on I will be happy that I have so many of them on my 10 little acres.
Clark Womack
Harper, TX
110 miles due west of Austin, 30 miles west of Fredericksburg, Zone 8

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