Re: Fire Ants!

Posted by mcj on May 24, 2001 at 13:57:30 from (198.26.132.99):

In Reply to: Fire Ants! posted by Steve (SC) on May 24, 2001 at 08:01:11:

Steve, I live in the lower part of SC (Charleston). They have been here for years. They are not as bad in the upstate as they are here. I think the red clay and colder winters keep them somewhat at bay. You can control them somewhat with poison, but you will never be able to totally eradicate them that way. Ortho orthene seems to work pretty well on individual mounds, but the smell of that stuff is very strong. You can broadcast spread Amdro or one of the granular poisons and keep them somewhat under control in a yard. The mounds can go for as much as 8 feet underground. If you have cattle, you should be watchful about newborn calves falling into or wandering into a fire ant mound. They will burrow into a newborn and kill it. I read somewhere where Clemson or some other agricultural school was experimenting with a wasp that was native to South America as a means to keep them under control. This wasp is a natural ememy of fire ants.
Maybe if we could train the to eat kudzu, they could be of some benefit. (just kidding)

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