# Set one foot in my house again and you are dead !

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 21, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-one-foot-in-my-house-again-and-you-are-dead/170049 "2003-04-21T15:26:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![SouthernSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@SouthernSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernSky)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-one-foot-in-my-house-again-and-you-are-dead/170049/21 "2003-04-23T01:42:30Z")

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I tried, I really tried NOT to use poisons in my lawn to kill fire ants. At least I tried until there was an ant mound the size of a 1968 Volkswagen. Then I only used the poison in the general area. Then the colony moved to just the other side of the poison zone. I dutifully scattered just enough poison for that area. They moved to another part of the yard, then split up and covered several areas. Now I treat the whole lawn (they went to a neighbor that no one likes!).

Fire ants must all die now. Their bites make you miserable and can cause scarring. I’ll take snakes over fire ants.

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**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-one-foot-in-my-house-again-and-you-are-dead/170049/22 "2003-04-23T02:06:43Z")

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Not that I’m defending them or anything, but what good things do they do for the environment? (apart from clean up human waste that is).

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**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/set-one-foot-in-my-house-again-and-you-are-dead/170049/23 "2003-04-23T03:45:42Z")

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I didn’t use to think there were fire ants out in the Anza-Borrego desert where I live. Or at least, if there were, I thought they stayed outside like good little ants.

Then one night, I crawled into bed and thirty seconds later vaulted screaming from it. I don’t know how it happened. I couldn’t figure out how they got in, but my bedroom carpet was crawling with the little buggers, and they had infested the space between my top sheet and comforter. When I climbed into bed, I disturbed them, and I ended up getting a bunch of bites all over my body.

My landlord - wonderful person that he is - had the pest control people out that day.

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