# Nightmare trigger: fire ant rafts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739 "2015-10-06T18:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/21 "2015-10-07T15:30:55Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > This triggers fond memories :dubious: of living near Houston Well, there was your problem to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/22 "2015-10-07T16:20:55Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Fire ants will be on this planet when everything else is gone. Their adaptability to any situation is scary. > > Just think, first they get out of those flooded [huge mounds](http://www.permatreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fire-ant-nest.jpg) without drowning and then make those rafts. That’s why I always flooded the nests with a giant pasta pot full of boiling water. Fun for the whole family! ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/23 "2015-10-07T16:26:50Z")
Shudder! I found a large ball of ants in my water butt once. I scooped it out to find they were all running around a huge queen (I suppose). I stomped on them, but I really did have a couple of nightmares about a huge ant coming to get me. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/24 "2015-10-07T19:18:20Z")
Hmmm…a stream of consciousness post. Fire Ant Rafts FAR’s The participants are FARners Damned farners. Donald Trump! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/25 "2015-10-07T20:24:42Z")
Getting that many fire ants together in one densely compact area would be an ideal opportunity to spray them all with Raid from an industrial-size sprayer. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/26 "2015-10-07T22:55:02Z")
Fire ant rafts in and of themselves aren’t nightmare fuel. Lots of kinds of ants do this. Being caught in a flood, particularly without a boat, and having to dodge the damn things, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739/27 "2015-10-07T23:11:42Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > There’s a way to get them on the ground, and get a [pretty piece of art](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI) in the bargain. Love that artwork. I like to look at it and visualize the doomed fire ants desperately fleeing molten death. Look closely; you can almost hear the tiny, tiny screams… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmare-trigger-fire-ant-rafts/733739.md?page=1)