[samhass]

I have had Once a Year over here on a regular basis for the past few weeks. I have also purchased and applied several bags of fire ant killer and tried putting cornmeal on the hills. That cornmeal trick does not work for me. They are thriving. When I think of how much poison we put into the ground around here, it frightens me.
I have had half a dozen fire ant bites over the last couple of weeks and they hurt like the dickens. You can be bitten many times and suddenly become very allergic to their venom. A neighbor came close to death after being stung. They are nasty.