OMFG i would be scared shitless. I hate ants. The more red the more I hate em. Never seen one like that. I wouldn't be able to sleep. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

foxfyre wrote:

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Io,

velvet ant wasp - http://ag.arizona.edu/urbanipm/insects/bees/velvetants.html

Immediately go the hardware store and look into all the types of pesticides available.  Choose the best one to suit your needs (if you have children, more powerful if you don't - altho I'd keep an eye on SU), especially the type that will be carried back to the nest & eliminate it. 

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Ok...  I found the nest.....   I've got two pounds of black powder,   A can of either,  and five gallons of gas in the shed ready to go first thing in the mornining.....

 

Any one know the number to 911.....

Straight Up wrote:

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Ok...  I found the nest.....   I've got two pounds of black powder,   A can of either,  and five gallons of gas in the shed ready to go first thing in the mornining.....

 

Any one know the number to 911.....

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No, but can I watch the pretty explosion & fire?

 

Plushie - wait til YOU see one.  they look EVIL.

Took my supplies this morning and went after the Ant/Wasp....

Dug a little hole next to the nest.   Buried the Black Powder and gas...   used the either as a fuse.....

 

Now I have a three foot wide by four foot deep hole in my back yard....

 

What kind of tree should I plant back....

 

Yea peaches are good. But if you already have a hole, blow a bigger one and put in a pool.

Of course, a peach tree and a pool would be even better.

Straight Up wrote:

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So I get back with my new Peach tree and I'm all ready to plant it in the hole...

I look down in there and see a bunch of ants around their new pool throwing a pool party.....

 

AAAAGGGHHHHHHH........

 

So I went and got my shot gun and started blasting away....

Now I have new air condition in what used to be the back window of my pick up....

A hole in my shoe.....missed the toe....

And my neighbor is getting a new satellite dish....    She just doesn't know it yet....

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better give up while you are ahead.

Inside Out wrote:

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 Thanks foxfyre.....that was good info and quick....

after reading the info....makes me wonder if I really want to get rid of it....hmmmmmmmmm and finding it again....hmmmmmmmmmm

and yep  ...  ... I will have to keep an eye on SU!!!!!!!!!!!!  boyz???? and their toyz........   I can't leave him home by himself for nothing.......

.......He has some work to do now....filling up the holes he has created.....

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You're welcome - they don't call me the psychic librarian for nothing!

I wish I could have seen your face after he destroyed your yard!  And I bet the wasp is still alive! 

I think I'd try to find it.  The idea that it's there, somewhere, would drive me insane until I knew it ceased to exist anywhere in my vacinity. 

Well if it's outside - okay.  It belongs outside.  It can live outside.  But if it's inside...  sayonara!

I found that ant again  about five hours ago....   It was in the front yard out by the street....

I chased  it but it went down a hole next to the gutter....   So I went and got my pick and shovel   and started digging.....

I was down about two feet when I swung the pick and heard something hissing...   then I swung it again  and the last thing I remember was the sound of me hitting a rock,   Then I  seen a spark...   then flying through the air .....   I landed about forty feet away up against the house...

 

Long story short.....   I'm back from the Emergency room,   They let everyone back in the neighborhood,   and if I'm lucky,   the gas company won't press charges in the morning....

Another freaking whole to fill in..     CRAP....

 

That ant is going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at the holes he has dug in my yard:

 

Inside Out wrote:

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Look at the holes he has dug in my yard:

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AAAHHHGGGG....

Ok...  so I step outside this morning to see IO off to run some errands around town....

As she pulls out of the driveway,   I notice that little freaking red ant going down a hole next to my cement drive way....

I grab my trusty pick and shovel and start digging.....

About an hour latter...   I've got about three and a half foot hole dug up and under the drive way and still no sign of this ant...

Just then IO comes whipping back into the driveway and the cement collapse under the weight of the car.    The force of the car hitting a hole that big breaks the front axle and the shovel I was using flips up and brakes the window on the door and scratches the new paint job that I just put on her T-Bird.....

That freaking ant is going to suffer a long slow death when I finally catch it...