Fire Ants In Puna

[Kapohocat]

We too have fire ants down here - I think we got the full super colony. When any one works in the yard, we have them put oil on their skin first - we used kukui nut oil first, but it seems that any oil works - used crisco the other day when we were out of mac nut and kukui both, bath oil works fine too. The oil keeps the ants from biting - why I dont know but we did find it works.