# Fire Ants must Die!!! - Help me kill them

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-ants-must-die-help-me-kill-them/376935>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-ants-must-die-help-me-kill-them/376935 "2006-10-18T14:07:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-ants-must-die-help-me-kill-them/376935/41 "2006-10-25T12:22:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Maus Magill]  
James and his neighbor both took a spade and scooped the nest in his yard, and dumped it on the nest in the other’s yard. I like that solution. Let the fuckers kill each other.  
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I remember this being the preferred way of dealing with ground-nesting wasps, as a child. Dump a shovelful of red wood-ant nest on top of the entrance to their hive.

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-ants-must-die-help-me-kill-them/376935/42 "2006-10-25T12:39:53Z")

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[QUOTE=flurb]  
If only we could find a way to turn the fire ants and the kudzu against each other . .  
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Since I live in the Land O’ Cotton, any area that has fire ants fails to have boll weevil outbreaks. For real…

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