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RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - My 2 cents - 01-05-2019
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Originally posted by SBH
If you ever find LFA or any ants inside your house I’ve found that Simple Green cleaner kills them instantly and is non toxic and environmentally safer.
Anything that kills them instantly will be counter-productive in the long run. All you are doing is killing the workers. Back at the nest the queen will see her colony diminishing and she will go into mass production mode producing more ants and more queens and pretty soon you will have more ants than ever. That's why it needs to be a slow acting bait-poison, to give the workers time to get it back to the nest.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - bananahead - 01-05-2019
lucky we DONT HAVE those 'Red Imported Fire Ants' in Hawaii....
we have ELECTRIC ANTS!!!, a completely different species... aloha
please dont use the word Fire Ants in Hawaii, ours are not Fire Ants, not related at all...
they are known as ELECTRIC ANTS to the entire world, except in Hawaii they are called LFA (little Fire Ants) for some boneheaded reason
not in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant
in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ant
aloha
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RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - Midnight Rambler - 01-05-2019
We do have tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata, same genus as RIFA) here. That might be what My 2 cents saw. There is also another true fire ant that looks almost identical to LFA - tiny, orangish, slow-moving, stings - present at least on Oahu. It doesn't seem to be as invasive though.
RE: Fire ants and the world,interesting read - terracore - 01-05-2019
quote:
Originally posted by bananahead
lucky we DONT HAVE those 'Red Imported Fire Ants' in Hawaii....
we have ELECTRIC ANTS!!!, a completely different species... aloha
please dont use the word Fire Ants in Hawaii, ours are not Fire Ants, not related at all...
they are known as ELECTRIC ANTS to the entire world, except in Hawaii they are called LFA (little Fire Ants) for some boneheaded reason
not in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant
in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ant
Give it up. Little Fire Ant directs to Electric ant on wikipedia. Nobody calls them electric ants outside of Australia.
"Electric ant
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Little fire ant)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Wasmannia
Species: W. auropunctata
Binomial name
Wasmannia auropunctata
(Roger, 1863) [1]
The electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), also known as the little fire ant"
In fact, the entire article only refers to the term "electric ant" in the first paragraph and once in the footnotes. After that, it calls them "little fire ant" 31 times. Electric ant, zero.