We're watching this out the back door today.
The fire ants that live in our walls are migrating across the patio. They're moving thousands of eggs to a new mound (or several) in the yard. Cool to watch. Scary because I discovered them when letting Edward out in the backyard to play.
How do we feel about having new fire ant mounds in our yard? We're thrilled. These ants have been in our walls since we moved in over a year ago. Once we realized it, we sprayed the interior walls to keep them away from us. As long as they went outside for their food and left us alone, we kept a tense peace with them.
Now, once they've moved out their eggs, we can spray the exterior of the house and keep them from coming back in. And a through walk of the yard will reveal the mounds and we can treat those too.
Maybe, for a few days at least, we can call our house allergen free!
Monday, August 03, 2009
Ant Migration
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ew, that's kinda creepy
That is so crazy that they are moving all their eggs out! I didn't even know they would do that.
BTW... if you are in need of a good (and cheap) product, get Cyper WP. We had fire ants in our house and my dad brought some down and sprayed the whole interior (it's safe for use inside) and exterior with it and we have no more ants inside.
You can also use it to kill whole mounds.
a big gallon size makes TONS - my dad has had his for a few years.
Anyway- glad that ants are moving out of your house! That is always happy news!
Fire ants are one of my top reasons for hating my years of living in the south. I can't believe you held yourself back from stomping on them and all of their eggs, and just watched and recorded them blissfully moving their colony to your yard.
With Edward so allergic to them, fire ants are one of my biggest reasons for not being a fan of TX. I'm just glad to have them out of our walls!
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