Many of you are probably aware of fire ants. However, for a few years now there have been experiments with a small insect called the phorid, a type of winged insect which burrows into the head of the ant to lay eggs, I understand.
North Carolina, Florida, and Texas were experimenting with them. Have the phorids been brought out to the private sector?
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~gilbert/research/fireants/
2007-08-09 08:00:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
My objection to the use of Diazinone and other chemical "treatments" is that first, as at least one person has concurred, you end up just chasing the ants around, not really preventing them from living in your environment. Secondly, the chemicals leach into the water table, and are carried downstream to lakes, rivers, and oceans.
If you think this is not a problem, try going in a river, lake, or even along the shores of our coast. Smell the water, see the colour and texture of the water, and note the froth, the scum, the slime left on rocks, banks, beaches.
Hence arises my interest in a biological solution, an ecological solution.
2007-08-10 03:26:12 · update #1
Probably not. I lived in Florida for 11 years and fought them the whole time. Anything you use to kill them just makes them move the nest. I used Grits on the mounds since they were cheap. I still chased them all over the property though.
2007-08-09 08:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in SE AR near the La line and we have fire ants also--We have not heard of the phorids here--I wish they would find something for them--We use Amdro that you buy at Wal-Mart-best we have found so far--
2007-08-09 15:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by curlyQ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my fire ant mounds have winged black ants on them.....what are they?
2015-08-20 07:44:25 · answer #3 · answered by jennifer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋