First Doctor Fire Ant Post
Hello! This is a test post for my new blog, Dr. Fire Ant's Musings. You can find my blog at doctorfireant.blogspot.com. This blog will discuss what else? Fire ants! (and maybe a few other...
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Rasberry Crazy Ant found in Katy, TX
Jay Jorn's with JNJ Pest Control and Grounds Care, Inc, Katy, TX brought some ant specimens by the Harris County Extension Office the other day to be identified. He was concerned they were the...
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Are you Two-Stepping?
Yesterday I traveled to The Lone Star Convention and Expo Center in Conroe, TX to begin the third year of a demonstration project regarding imported fire ant management on property used for various...
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Ants, ants, and more ants!
This has been a busy week for me where ants are concerned. I have been working on a study for the management of the Texas Leaf Cutter Ant (Atta texana) with products from BASF (more on this in future...
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Fire ant bait, varmints, and grits!
Varmints and fire ant baitLast weekend I received an email that directed me to the Montgomery-County-Texas-Yard-and-Garden-Magazine facebook page where a concern was voiced over the apparent damage to...
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The Lago Santa Fe Fire Ant Project - 10 Years and Counting
Just got off the phone with Jay Gilbert a resident of Lago Santa Fe, Santa Fe, TX. He gave me a quick update on their 2012 community fire ant management program, The Lago Santa Fe Fire Ant Project....
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Rasberry crazy ant in urban gardens!
I am concerned with what I observed at the Harris County Precinct 2 Master Gardener’s Genoa Friendship Gardens. The Rasberry crazy ant [Nylanderia sp. nr. pubens (LaPolla, et al)] was observed...
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American Cockroach vs your home!
I was sitting watching TV the other night and what did I see but an aircraft carrier cruising across my floor! No, wait; it is just one of those large cockroaches. Have you had a similar experience?...
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Fire Ant Mystery in Harris County, Texas
While checking my email Monday I received this report from Sean McGuire in Harris, County, Texas: “I ride my bike on a concrete bike trail between Pasadena and La Porte along Fairmont Parkway. I've...
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Mosquitoes Around the Home
I have a love/hate relationship with the red imported fire ant. I am mesmerized at their aggressiveness when their mounds are disturbed. I am amazed about how quickly they can build a mound...
View ArticleMosquito Aerial Spraying in Harris County Scheduled for August 22, 2012
For those in Harris County that read the information on mosquito control around the home in my previous post I wanted to report that the Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services...
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Cicada Killer antics
Have you ever been sitting in your back yard, around your pool, or in a park and all of a sudden you notice a B2 Stealth Bomber headed straight for your head! Wait a minute that can’t be...
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Introducing the Ghost Ant
No you are not going to see this ant on any SyFy channel episodes of the series “Ghost Hunters” but more and more apparitions of this ant are appearing in homes in Texas. I have had calls...
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Lovebug Connection
I just got off the phone with Alison Bath, USA Today Correspondent. She wanted some information on “lovebugs” and if we were seeing increased populations in the Houston area. We talked for a...
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Rasberry crazy ant finally identified
For those of you following the saga of the effort to correctly identify the "Rasberry crazy ant" to genus and species you will be happy to know that this information is now published. Click on...
View ArticleFire Ants and Club Soda - The Final Word!!?
For several years my colleagues and I have been addressing phone calls/emails on whether or not club soda will kill fire ants. One of the theories is that you open a bottle of club soda (no...
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Fire Ants Rule? Yeah, Right!
This is the time of the year in the Gulf Coast area of Texas when temperatures begin to moderate and you and your family spend a lot of time in your yard. Do you feel that fire ants have...
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Reducing the impact of the red imported fire ant!
Back in June, I reported on efforts to manage the red imported fire population at the Lone Star Convention & Expo Centerin preparation of the 2012 Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC). Since...
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