Fire Ants

[Trinity man]

I was just wondering how far north do you all see the fire ants. We use to have them real bad, but over the years they seem to be moving out of the area or just not as bad.

 

[per]

Hate to ask too stupid of a question but will anyway. Why do they call them fire ants?

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Cuz when they bite ya, it burns like fire. Then it itches....then ya scratch....n it keeps burnin and itchin...etc

 

[per]

Would appreciate if you kept them down there. :shock:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Be nice if they'd never been brought in in the first place.

If you have one on ya, more than likely you have many. Soon as their mounds are disturbed, they are all over ya by the time one bites ya.

Don't even hafta be in a mound, you can just sit outside, and if you have flip flops on.....most likely your gonna git bit. That's why I don't wear flip flops, or any other kinda sandles. I wear my boots ALLLL the time.

 

[DustDevil]

They sneak up your leags till there's at least 10 or 15 of 'em, then on signal, they all bow up and sting the hell out of you. They have specially trained volunteers that go for the, well, where your legs kinda join up. When you think you've got 'em all, a few stragglers will try to finish you off.

 

[Silver]

That sounds like a problem I don't need. :shock: I will consider myself fortunate not to have fire ants or gophers.
Although I may consider trading a few thousand elk for a few of these ants...... maybe..... naaahhhhh :wink:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Nothin make ya shed yer clothes like fire ants will. LOL

 

[DustDevil]

I have shucked down to my skivvies in the middle of a hayfield when encountering a bale infested with the aforementioned little bass-turds.
The previous post described a skirmish with a squad or even a platoon-sized element. If you inadvertantly step on or stumble upon Division HQ, ie an ant bed, you can expect no less than a batallion-size response if you do not immediately un-ash the area PDQ.

 

[leanin' H]

Nothin make ya shed yer clothes like fire ants will. LOL

I could of really used a mound or two of those during high school! :shock: :wink:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Even if you do vacate the area immediately.....after fallin down on, stumblin upon, or just walkin by slowly....you will leave with a few of the foot soldiers attached to some area of your person.

Bale infested ain't pretty.....no matter how ya look at it!!!!

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Oh also...durin droughts....ya do NOT wanna be near wet ground. We were in Waco....down town, at the Heart of Texas complex for a huge 3 day barrel race Labor Day weekend. Yes we were in the old trailer that has the cowboy shower in the back. Lil Lilly and I had decided to stay in the stands and watch for a while. Mr Lilly took his shower and went to bed. I was the last to shower....but before I got that far......I walked where the water had ran outta the trailer when Mr Lilly took his shower. Very shortly......I felt pain.......right there in the middle of Waco.....I started shuckin clothes, and hollerin. Tryin to get them stingin critters off me. In a few short minutes after gettin em all off me. I crawled up into the trialer where there was light, I had stings all up my legs, feet were covered with bites....cuz dummy me....I had taken my boots off gettin ready to shower. Shoulda wore my boots till I was ready to turn on the water :?

 

[per]

So they are not like bears where you only have to outrun who ever you are with. :shock: (unless you are with gcreek who just takes the bear on with a stick or Leanin' H who has been looking forward to dropping a bear)

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Nope......they gonna get whoever your with too. LOL

 

[RobinFarmandRanch]

We got enough of them down here to build an army. They get on the horses and us while we are working cows in the marsh. after a while you get used to them biting yo, but for some reason now they are starting to leave scars on us. i have a hole in my hand from when one bit me the other day.

 

[High Plains]

Couldn't get used to that. I almost go running for the river with just these darned mosquitos. To think that I could get used to something that can leave a scar; not a chance! Guess you just deal with what you have to deal with. :shock:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Least they make spray to keep skeeters off ya. They don't make nothin to keep fire ants off.

 

[RobinFarmandRanch]

Least they make spray to keep skeeters off ya. They don't make nothin to keep fire ants off.

they are immune to everything down here. When we ride the marshes, we walk through the bushes and tall grass so it wipes them off the horses.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

We don't have marshes...but it gets perdy swampy here sometimes. Had a horse show up at the house the other day, that I assume had rolled in a fire ant mound. Had welts all over him for a couple days. All we did was bath him and spray him down with the homemade fly spray that I mix up.

 

[DustDevil]

We got enough of them down here to build an army. They get on the horses and us while we are working cows in the marsh. after a while you get used to them biting yo, but for some reason now they are starting to leave scars on us. i have a hole in my hand from when one bit me the other day.

Don't mean to alarm you, but almost everyone I've heard or ttalked to about a BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER bite at first thought it was a fireant sting.