several years ago, I got into a nest unknowingly, and got bit about 30 times before I knew I had the little black ants all over my arm . . .

I put something on the bites, but two days later I was in New York City away from my medicine cabinet, and I started seeing red streaks going up my arm ... I also felt very dizzy and very sick . . .

I loaded up on benadryl and things evened out . . .

Mattie- I think the dark ones are a different species of fire ant....I went outside this morning and my son had left a bag of popcorn on a little plastic table...it was covered with the devils. I finally got out the granules (not pellets as I said earlier) and put them all over. The bag of granules was only 5 bucks and it was a 3 lb. bag. I'll let you know how it works:)

they are evil....ahahahhaah

Use Boric acid and sugar or if you cant find boric acid try and find borax laundry soap.

Its safe and effective

They take it back to the collony and kills them all

oooh cool, Prop

even better

thank you!

mattie,

You can try and hold the bitten parts under as hot of water as you can stand (just below scalding) for about 10 minutes. It will itch like crazy, and I mean insane while you do it. Afterward it will "deplete" the histamines from the area and give you 4 to 8 hours of relief. Try it before you go to bed.

It will work. Put antibiotic cream on the bites so they don't get infected, cellulitis sucks.

Gringo

^thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try this evening

go to wally world or a sports place

they sell an insect " sucker "

no chit it removes the posion & stingers !!

sounds like you would resemble a polio patient though!! LOL !!

we are gettin modsquitoes here & the wife & I are using it daily!!

EBB

#25..........Great........now I have in my mind's eye an image of a lobster-red MattieB slathering himself with cream.

re 16: That is one mean ant. Cool article, pac.

When I was young living, in FLA, we had lots of fire ants but the ones we were most afraid of we called Cow Killer ants. It was rumored their bite was strong enough to actually kill a cow. Rural legend, of course.

Monstrous things but they look cool as hell. Here's a link from the same site:

http://www.asktheexterminator.com/Wasps/Velvet_Ant.shtml 

LMAO @ Andy...........

#29 Yikes. Very creepy.

BTW, one of the good times on our trip it helped to speak some Spanish. I heard another guide tell someone else to look where he was walking. "Las hormigas estan muy peligroso."

This got my attention, as we were heading into the jungle canopy on a ride, where I had no idea what we'd encounter. I went up to him and asked, "Habla Englais?" He replied, "yes", so I asked him why the ants were very dangerous. I didn't sleep well that night after hearing about bullet ants. Thank God I never got stung. 37 mosquito bites were enough souveneirs for me to bring home from the jungle.

Did the remedy work? I hope so.