"Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>
> I live in Houston and we seem to have every kind of ant you can imagine.
> Out on the sidewalks in front of our house long streams of ants are coming
> and going in single files. Then there are the other ants who go helter
> skelter in no apparent order. I think those may be the rasberry ants. The
> fire ants build mounds in the yard and give you very hurtful stings when
> you
> mow the lawn and get too close. Good times.

Do you not kill them? Just askin'....

N.


We do. There is something we buy at home depot that you sprinkle a small
amount on the mound and the ants take it inside and it kills the queen. I am
going to be honest, I don't like killing but they can sting pets and
children so you have to try to get rid of them.