RE: Re: OT: ants
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
On 25 Sep 99, at 8:53, Theresa Yates wrote:
I have also had
> them eat out the okra we had; the only vegetable plant I couldn't kill on
> my own. If you believe the fireant only attacks bugs & decaying vegetable
> matter look again.
>
I think any kind of ant is attracted to okra. Long ago, before
the imported fire ant ever got to Texas, our okra was always
covered with ants. My dad used to sprinkle our okra with Green
Light Seven Dust to keep the ants off, and it worked.
If the fire ant mound is in a field you can kill the mound with
gasoline or scalding hot water, but you will also kill the grass near
the mound, so this procedure is not recommended for lawn
purposes. For lawns and flower beds I would use a scant amount of
diazinon sprinkled on the mound. This usually gets to the queen
very quickly; she eats it, dies, and the worker ants die shortly
thereafter. Amdro is highly touted as a 'safe' fire ant killer, but it is
expensive and repeated applications may be necessary. After
each rain, new mounds develop, and control procedures must be
performed again. In Mississippi fire ant mounds are as prevalent
as kudzu, and you simply cannot ignore them or they will take over
your spread and run you off.
There have been horror stories in the newspapers of fire ants
getting into a nursing home and stinging bed patients. I personally
know of a neighbor's dog's litter of puppies being stung to death
overnight after birth earlier in the day.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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