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Fire Ants
Fire Ant Control (using Liquid Ant Bait)
Believed to have been introduced into the United States during the 1930's at
the seaport of Mobile, Alabama, the imported fire ants present a serious problem in Texas, Southern California,
Florida and many other areas throughout the Southern United States. The fire ants
infest pastures, cropland, citrus groves, golf courses, lawns, flowerbeds and
other open habitats. Among other things, they will seriously sting any intruder,
human and animal alike; remove bark from young trees; and build ant mounds
that are up to 18 inches high that make cultivating of crops difficult and
expensive. There are cases where fire ants have infested the
feed of livestock with disastrous results and into orange groves to an
extent that the workers have refused to enter to pick the fruit for fear of
being stung.
Picture of Fire Ants in kitchen by Fred J. Santana, Entomologist
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that they kill the foraging fire ants before they can feed the poison to the queen
and the other ants in the colony."
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Methods such as the broadcast of pesticides are not the solution to the fire ant problem in
that they kill the foraging fire ants before they can feed the poison to the queen
and the other ants in the colony. When foraging ants are killed, fire ant
colonies divide and reproduce at an even greater rate. Also, these pesticides
kill off beneficial insects which pollinate and protect crops and plants.
The use of ant bait to attack
the problem provides a more effective and long-term solution in that it seeks to
permit the foraging ants to consume a less toxic ’food’ and carry it back to
be fed to the queen and the rest of the colony without causing alarm. One method
is to spread ant bait, such as a boric acid based bait, or
other chemical based bait, in a powdered
or granular form, completely over the entire area effected by fire ants.
But this method presents
problems since an
unfavorable change in weather conditions after spreading the bait can limit the
desired results. For example the ground temperature has to be above 65 degrees for the fireants to
start to be active. Additionally, rain can wash away or degrade the bait prior
to being consumed by the ants.
Liquid ant bait is considered the ideal bait in that it can satisfy the ants'
need for water, protein and carbohydrates in a single food source. This
presents the need for a weather-tolerant, high volume, long-term, continuous,
liquid ant bait delivery device that the AntPro liquid ant bait station provides.
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