Fire Ants?

[GarGuy]

What Impact will the deep freeze have on fire Ants? I know they generally dont live in cold environments. The mounds around my place show no sign of ants so far. Yall think the freeze thinned them out?

[jerp]

I've been wondering the same thing. With all the moisture in the ground and warm temps this week I think we will know soon enough if mounds start popping up everywhere.

[John Paul]

Working on sprinkler system yesterday my oldest boy stood in a mound and wish he hadn’t. Lol.

[locolobo]

Fire ants just drill deeper into the ground for freeze protection. They just spent the past week makin more baby ants to replace the ones that froze!

[JhuntsAlot]

I am thinking like loco. Probably just went deeper to get away from cold surface temps.

But I also think it might have thinned them out like you said. Might be hard to notice though.


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[Traildust]

Nothing

[locolobo]

I've thinned 'em out also using a combo of Amdro, the old "bait" stuff, where the water hose won't reach, and Spectracide stuff that you gotta water in! I spend hundreds $$ each year just keepin 'em in check. Will never get rid of 'em.

[hunt247]

I think they go down like 10ft. I am sure it is warm at that level

[DRT]

Only thing kills them is poison. Lots and lots of poison.

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[Charles]

Give it time, they'll be back.

When they build the big mounds after a good rain, I mix up a batch of Demon in a 5 gallon bucket and pour on the mounds. Them suckers are dead in minutes.

[DRettele]

I hope it killed them all but I am pessimistic...

[BrianL]

I kicked a mound yesterday just to see and they came out ****** off. Only time I have seen it kill them off was when the ground was super saturated and then the hard freeze hits.

[cap50948]

None. Them A-holes ain't going anywhere.

[D4H]

They are fine. They will be back.

[Burnadell]

No effect. Same with skeeters and ticks. We found a tick on our dog this morning.