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Texas & western Iowa | There are a good number of products that will kill them both. But nothing works well on a large scale for fire ants. At least not for long.
Meaning they'll kill the grubs, but just move the ants to a different location temporarily.
Fire ants are a huge deal down here. I'm old enough to remember when we'd never heard of them. They're thought to be the reason for the big declines in ground nesting birds and animals. Quail in particular.
Not many folks are familiar with horned toads from west Texas. They fed almost exclusively on harvester ants, but fire ants wiped out the harvester ants, so horned toads died off too.
The week of near zero temps here in Texas didn't seem to faze them, so I'd expect them to keep moving north.
The hope is/was that Texas A&M will find a solution like they did with the screw worm outbreak years ago, but so far no progress that I'm aware of. | |
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