Re: Fire ants

["J. Michael Rowland" <jmr at marathoncomputer dot com>]

domesteading-request at sculptors dot com  Sat Jul  7 10:02:26 2001 wrote:

> Not of much use in a pasture, of course,
> if it has to be plugged in.

There are readily available solar-powered electric fence chargers that are
more than powerful enough to deliver a shock sufficient to enrage an ant.

This sounds like a great solution to me, provided it does work and doesn't
just kill a generation of workers, leaving the queen and enough staff to
rebuild the colony. Even if so, you can leave these fence chargers in place
for years, if necessary.

(There's a certain poetic justice, too, to a solution that uses the ants'
own aggressive nature against them.)

jmr