05-10-2012, 11:42 AM
If I got anything delivered, whether its mulch or a plant from a farmer's market, I would treat it as if it was infested. If you poison them right off the bat it will delay the inevitable. From what I've read a nearly island-wide infestation is going to happen eventually and it will be just another thing you have to deal with, like coqui frogs and my parrots. As far as I know fire ants have never been eradicated once they've arrived, anywhere. The best you can hope for is management.