"Dioclese" <NONE> wrote in message
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> "charliekilo" <miles_kramer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Dioclese" <NONE> wrote in message
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>>> "charliekilo" <miles_kramer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> For the record, I am not complaining! Where have all of the fire ants
>>>> gone? I haven't seem many over the past couple of years and none this
>>>> year. I used to have several mounds in my yard at any given time and
>>>> now not a single mound or fire ant to be seen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Here, the mounds are gone, but fire ants are still there. A different
>>> sub-species is present at the side of the front steps on my ****ch.
They
>>> are a more burgundy color. Other normal colored fire ants are all
over
>>> the place, minus mounds out at my place. Got feedback on lack of
>>> mounds, its lack of water. They build mounds when it rains or similar
>>> to that.
>>> --
>>> Dave
>>
>> I didn't have any mounds in my area last year when we had lots of
>> rain...I just have a bunch of tiny ants everywhere this year.
>>
>>
>
> You seemed confident in the original post that all were fire ants. Now,
> they're "tiny ants". Interesting.
> --
> Dave
Maybe I miscommunicated but I can tell what is a fire ant, both the
domestic
and im****ted South American fire ant, with a high degree of
confidence....especially when they sting me while working in the yard!
Both
those varieties are generally about 1/8" long and reddish brown to black
in
color. What I have now, are black in color and only about 1/16" or smaller
in size...like what we called "sugar ants" when I was growing up on the
east
coast. These small ants I have now seem to like plants as I see them
mostly
on my native xeriscape-type plants -- but they don't seem to be doing any
damage.
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