You wanna kill fire ants?

Pour a bunch of Grits on the mound

Ya, good old Southern breakfast food grits.

Give them a few hours and then water the lawn around the mound. I know it sounds crazy, but it works.

It's also non toxic, and not dangerous.

I hate the fuckers and it is weird how they wait until there's a bunch of them on you, and then they all start biting at once.

i believe when they bite it sends some "signal" (smell or whatever) to the others to all attack

Well, you learn something new everyday, eh? Actually, when I was a kid i once knelt directly onto an ant hill and boy did those fuckers let me know who was boss!


p.s. typing and posting from webtv in a hotel is a bitch.

hmm

Shiiittt

OMG thats nuts I have never heard of that ever. Well watch out folks when playing in the water.

here is what a floating red ant ball looks like..

http://claycoleman.tripod.com/4c3bcd30.jpg

Omg I'm scared now.

I will never swin in any flood waters again! Actually, I never had. Those ants sure know how to work together though, jeez. So powerful in their groups.

:glugglug

Holy shit, that'd be a terrible way to go. Must take a long time to get devoured by a colony of ants - painful, too. :helpme

Sounds like she got OWNED.
Nice story though. :thumbsup

This thread stirred an interest, and I searched for floating ant balls on Google.

I found this page, with the exact same story as above.
http://www.flyingchair.net/story.php?storyID=1041

Who has the time to lie about stupid shit in a GFY thread?

Wow thats fucked up...

kinda like Mexicans....

Same with their food, it's after the 4th burrito things start going wrong

i heard that they only come up during summer. do they live underground?

Occasionally ants migrate in the rainforests in South America...imagine a line of millions of ants killing and eating everything in their path :) Those little fuckers can cause alot of destruction.

Now theres a good theme for a movie

you had to find it somewhere else on the internet to realise it was bullshit?

random fact:

an ant will live underwater for about 2 weeks before it drowns.

No. I knew it was bullshit. I was just looking for more pics of floating ant balls and came across that same story again. It just baffles me that people have this kinda time.

Fuck the ants, I want to know about all the snakes, what happened to them? anybody get bitten yet?

I can sum up the pending Dennis hurricane crisis with one link:

http://fireant.tamu.edu/materials/gr...oto/img42.html

I'd be more worried about floating turds!

And I thought I was the master of useless trivia, the Jeopardy Champion on GFY...nice DarkJedi, never heard that before. Goddamned ants!

i've heard this.

not something i am interested in experiencing.

what about the floating balls of cottonmouth snakes? I always worried about that when I swam in the river - scary shit and that is very real problem too.

floating balls of alligators would be scary too :(

What the heck? I've never heard of such a thing :eek7 Scary :uhoh

"If detergent is sprayed on and around the mass of ants, the surface tension of the water is weakened to the point that the entire mass sinks and drowns."

hence carry detergent on you, if you get some on you, put it on yourself and you'll be ok

I hate those little fucking bastards

http://fireant.tamu.edu/materials/gr...mg0061_med.jpg

All you need is the proper pet for your geographical location.

yep - time for fire ant balls again - ah hell! watch out bitches! :warning

dude that is some scary shit :(

what I was thinking also

don't know if they have floating balls of them but cottonmouth snakes are bad ass's one of the most aggressive snakes in the world.

I just saw a MacGyver rerun with this theme.

:1orglaugh