WC> The burning sensation lasts but an hour for me but they heal at the
 WC> usual rate.


 The two red bites are still visable a day and ahalf later, no more
burning. The discomfort was aggrevatred by location. (one bite smack
in the middle of my right palm and the other near the thumb joint.)


 WC> My entire body from the waist up welled up into raised red welts
 WC> that lasted for weeks.

 WC> Don't know why that reaction never recurred.

 Maybe theres some immunity from the first reaction so the secnond
isn't so severe?
........

 WC> In the yard I just look at the weather radar and if I see a rain storm
 WC> headed this way an couple hours off I broadcast some grits ( uncooked)
 WC> into the yard.

 WC> The workers feed the queen the grits, it rains, she drinks and the
 WC> grits swell up, pop no more queen, no more colony.

 HEY! Grits are good for someting after all!???? heh.. heh.. thanks!
Now we'll just go out and buy that instead... BUt after a rain? I'll
haveta just do it after the sprinklers go off instead.

 WC> You can ID fire ant colonys in they generally build mounds in a
 WC> straight line.

Iv'e seen the mounds but this paritcular encounter was a food
gathering mission I think... away from the mound. (I think the mound
might be hidden in the grass on the other side of the fence.)


->  WC> Must have looked like a total lunatic 

->  Didn't you holler FIRE? 

 WC> I explained by uttering "fire ants",
 WC> as I slapped my jeans against my legs smashing the little monsters.

  And they siged in sympathy secretly relieved not to be afflicted as
well...

Cindy

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