Timeline for How to win against ants
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 13:49 | comment | added | user3067860 | @Scott Not all red ants are fire ants, especially not if the person labeling them is not an ant expert. Many carpenter ants are reddish in color. | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 10:11 | comment | added | Him | OTOH, if @TianaPyre is being overrun by native non-stinging ants. Do simply clean up after yourself and otherwise learn to live with the ants. If you kill them, fire ants may take their place, and fire ants are much worse, I assure you. | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 10:09 | comment | added | Him | "They perform useful functions in the ecosystem, and don't deserve genocide." red ants (aka fire-ants) are an invasive species, they are replacing the local carpenter ants in many locations in the eastern US who used to perform that function, (and arguably did a better job, since they help break down lignins). Worse, they sting, a quality which the opposing, native carpenter ants do not possess. Many people (myself included) would thus argue that red ants do, in fact, deserve mass myrmicide. DOWN WITH THE RED ANTS! | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 8:57 | comment | added | Michel Keijzers | Very good answer, trying to avoid the ants is best. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 21:37 | comment | added | Tiana Pyre | I love camping in the Rockies and that was the roots of my current adventures. Yet, now I find myself adapting to environments outside my comfort zone. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 21:27 | history | answered | ab2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |