OH LORD, I've been hit!!

j williams said:
I laid on a mound at FT Benning doin training once. It was bad. Real bad!

Nothin like strippin and dumpin canteens all over yourself while yellin.... Priceless.
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Same thing with me, but it was in Texas. Nothing worse then trying to get sweaty, sandy BDUs off of you while those effin' things are eatin' the hell out of you.
 
hollowdweller said:
This thread would be MUCH better with pics:thumbup:

We don't have them here. What do they feel like?
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Ya know HD, their the darndest little things, just look like any other ant, really small, but they sting like the dickens. I would say the sting is about half that of a wasp pain wise, but its always a bunch of them, and their so small that their hard to get off.

Their mounds are fairly large and very crumbly. When you disturb it, they instantly attack. And thats no joke. Its not like a normal ant mound where they slowly start to file out one by one from a single entry, they are just instantly everywhere, climbing and stinging their way up your body.

I'll try to put together a little pictorial this week so all you lucky devils who don't have to bother with the demons can see what their all about.
 
I know I'm laughing at others pain but some of the coments were just too funny. Especially the one about the stun gun. I laughed so hard I had to stop reading and wipe the tears out of my years. Sure makes me glad I live where the nastiest bugs are mosquitos and such and easily defeted with bug repellant. Just got to watch out for two and four legged threats here.
 
If they get a good sting on you. it can do that. And form a small abcess that leaves a long-lasting scar. I have quite a few scars from them on my legs. My first encounter was while canoing a river in Florida. You can't drown them. They form a "ball" mass in the water and float until they find a tree or beach or a....canoe to climb out on.

Codger
 
They got my feet this weekend too. Must be that time of the year,anyone know a good way to get rid of them?
 
TWBryan said:
They got my feet this weekend too. Must be that time of the year,anyone know a good way to get rid of them?
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If you're quick enough, do this:

1. Make sure you have multiple mounds to work with
2. Get a shovel
3. Pick up ants from pile A and move to pile B
4. Repeat with pile B ---> pile A

They are very territorial little f-ers and will kill out the other mounds.

PeACE

Dougo
 
Hey Shotgunner... welcome to Texas! ;)

One word of advice: Don't ever mow the lawn in flip-flops... :)

Fire ants can/do kill infant mammals up to whitetail deer size (usually in the first hours after birth). They are also attributed for a decline in land-nesting birds like quail and turkey. Their only positive attribute is that they kill ticks. I haven't had a tick in years.

Funny how they 'know' how to synchronize their attack once a bunch of them have crawled up on you. Well.. not funny... unless it is happening to someone else... then it is ok to laugh;) :D
 
I was building a tree stand in a big ole pecan tree and found a nest in the crotch of two big limbs by sitting in it. I ended up falling out of the tree into the bed of the pickup and knocking myself. Drove myself to the hospital for 6 stitches. Needless to say, I dont like the little ba%^&rds either!
 
myright said:
Same thing with me, but it was in Texas. Nothing worse then trying to get sweaty, sandy BDUs off of you while those effin' things are eatin' the hell out of you.
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Yeah, I laid there for a minute or so, and I was like WTF? I looked over at a buddy, he was ok, looked down the road atanother dude, he was ok, then all hell broke loose, and I jumped what seemed like 42 feet in the air and started strippin, screamin and dumpin water on myself.....:o

It was quite a sigh as we were practicing ambush technique, and it was so quite you could hear a mouse fart, till I went ballistic.

I feel better now knowin there is others who have done this.:D
 
There must be something wrong with me. I enjoy, yes I said enjoy the occassional fire ant bite or two. I try not to mess with the mounds further from my house. The ones closer I destroy because I have a 3 yr old, who's not afraid of anything. Ive found the popping the pustule, much like popping a pimple provides a world of relief to the site itself. Maybe Ive been in Tx wayyyyy to long.
 
cmgray said:
There must be something wrong with me. I enjoy, yes I said enjoy the occassional fire ant bite or two. I try not to mess with the mounds further from my house. The ones closer I destroy because I have a 3 yr old, who's not afraid of anything. Ive found the popping the pustule, much like popping a pimple provides a world of relief to the site itself. Maybe Ive been in Tx wayyyyy to long.
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#1. Lay off the drugs, man. :D:D:D:D:p

#2. There are worse pains down here. I was helping my dad move some lumber and wrapped my hands around a wasp or hornet nest that was on the underside of a 2x4. Talk about pain. I had 30 odd stings between my two hands, all in the palms. Kinda hard to work since I was a mechanic at the time.
 
I took the fam to Moody gardens on mon. and as we walked through the Amazon pyramid, we get to a tree thats completely covered with ants. It was like the ant-formation superhighway. Yea, they were fire ants.....inside.

Pure evil I say.
 
I will take a fire ant bite over the upleasant sting of a damn scorpion at 3am when you get up to pee.
 
I am just curious about how many down here in The Promised Land have been greeted by rattlesnake bites. I have gotten hit twice. Once half-way falling from a deer stand and the other while hiking. Neither was a pleasant experience.
 
In Texas fire ants are the least of your worries. The things here I dont care for are scorpions, black widows and brown recluses, rattlesnakes and cotton mouths, yellow yackets, red hornets, and those huge black ground hornets. Here in Texas if it doesn't grow thorns or it doesn't sting you it probably isn't a native species. Its worth it to live in the best state in the Union though. :p
 
I was stung a few years back by a bullet ant while working in south america. Not fun at all! I'll take some fire ants any day.
 
Those little assholes were EVERYWHERE after Katrina. You'd be standing in the middle of a paved parking lot and all of a sudden the bastards would be on your ankle.
 
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