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To: texas_mrs
My fire ant mounds are over a 12 acre yard area, and every time I kill a mound, they pop up 5 feet over. It almost like playing whack-a-mole with ants.

I don't like using the fire ant killer because all of the rain that falls in my yard eventually ends up in my pond. Nothing has ever been killed, but I still worry about it.

If the cornmeal will work, it would be a wonderful alternative for me!

36 posted on 05/04/2012 9:41:07 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

When I was young the fire ants were moving across the coastal plain. When the ants were up in the mounds, Dad and I would each get a shovel, dig out a big scoop and put it on the other mound.

Then you knocked the remaining ants off the shovel.

Enough of the invading ants made it to kill the queen and the mounds died.

Now it appears the crazy ants are wiping out the fire ants.


80 posted on 05/04/2012 5:01:54 PM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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