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red ants
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04-17-2008, 02:39 PM
Then you would be correct. I believe the little fire ant is the one that likes to hang in vegetation and which I've never seen. The ones I know all too well like the mounds on the ground and can move into the house.
Pua`a S. FL Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL Big Islander to be.
04-17-2008, 02:46 PM
quote: We have been bitten by them. We worked really really hard to get rid of them with all the usual, suggested items.... They hurt like heck, itchy, and red for 1/2 hr to 1 hr.... and use they do get in the house....
04-17-2008, 02:51 PM
That wouldn't be the same ant then. These I have, the bite stays anoying for about a week.
Pua`a S. FL Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL Big Islander to be.
04-18-2008, 07:08 PM
I know that bite, oink. The little blister or pustule that develops is a mark of the fire ant, and actually I have had both the LFA and the large fire ants bite me with similar results. They are different sizes but the bite is the same, and varies from a regular biting red ant.
I talked to my allergy doctor about the bites because I had a couple where I got a red patch with a leading edge that worried me. She said the pustule bites are the LFA and people can be allergic to them like bee stings. They can test for sensitivity. I'm allergic to them but not, for now at least, extremely so. However, with repeated bites, it's certainly possible for people's reactions to the fire ant bites to escalate. When I get bitten by one I get pretty bummed out because I know for the next week I'll be dealing with the aftermath, often not being able to sleep due to the itching ... but if you scratch then the itch becomes pain. My concern with my pets isn't that they would eat the bait, but rather with cats, that they would walk on the ground or grass that's baited, pick it up on their paws, and then lick their paws as cats do. Possibly I worry too much, but it seemed like it could happen pretty easily.
04-19-2008, 10:28 AM
It doesn't seem to have hurt my cat. Eating one of those poison skinks sure will though. It took her about a year to recover from that.
Pua`a S. FL Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL Big Islander to be.
05-16-2008, 04:05 AM
Have you heard about the newly emergent pest dubbed "Crazy Raspberry Ants" now spreading across Texas? I've not yet seen a species ID on them but they do not appear to be LFA from the way this fellow is sticking his hand and arm into a swarm of them. The problem with this type of ant is it chews insulation off of wiring. Destroys solar systems, computers, and so on. Has anyone in Puna had problems with ants chewing insulation off of wiring? I saw something like this once in South America. While living and working at a laboratory on the Ecuadorian coast I was awakened early one morning to the oddest sound. Strange deep-toned rasping sound. Spooked me a bit at first as I did not know if some sort of animal had gotten into my bedroom and was trapped in there somewhere, or what. At first I could not figure out where it was coming from, searching cautiously all over the room with a baseball bat, then realized the scratching sound was coming from the speakers of my stereo system -but had nothing to do with the stereo (since it was turned off). A dark column several inches wide composed of tiny little tiny ants --zillions of them-- extended from the back of my stereo speakers, down the dresser they were atop, across my bedroom floor, under the door, and across the rest of the house out under the front door and then down into a hole in the ground located about twenty-five feet away. The ants were eating whatever was in the speaker cones. It was a real mess, spraying them and cleaning up. They did run erratically, like crazy, when I attacked the column and nest, but this was over twenty years ago and I do not recall if they behaved just like these Crazy Raspberry Ants or not. Here are links to some video and a photo of these ants which are currently a problem in the Houston area and spreading outward from there- http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008....ants.KTRK http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200...to-in.html
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05-16-2008, 04:21 AM
My neighbor just told me he uses the molasses from the feed store in Pahoa. Buys it in a 5 gal drum. He rings the coconut trees with it. Kills the ants. Even after it soaks in, it still works.
The mechanism of it I am not sure but trying to follow up.
07-30-2009, 08:03 AM
I would like to know if anyone else has these tiny bothersome ants.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200...to-in.html They look like that but I am not sure if that is the same species. They do not bite but they get into the house through the electrical outlets. I have tried spraying them with home defense but that doesn't even stop them. I have been using windex. That kills the immediate ones but not the nest. I can't see or haven't noticed yet any electrical cords being chewed through. If you know what works best to kill them I would appreciate any advise.
07-30-2009, 08:55 AM
Hi jade. If they are grey, almost translucent, they're ghost ants, common here. They sometimes build nests inside the outlet boxes. Take off the cover and spray the inside with insecticide.
07-30-2009, 10:47 AM
County of Hawaii weekly report 11/16/07 did an article on fire ants
http://co.hawaii.hi.us/weeklynewsletter/...07.htm#ant scroll down to the end of the article to more information and click on link, you can pull up pictures of the two types of fire ants This website has some interesting home remedies for controlling ants. http://www.grandmashomeremedies.com/ants.html |
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