Texas Gardening: Fireants....I hate them!, 1 by aprilwillis

aprilwillis wrote:
I can tell you from my own experiences that building nearby disrupts them- all the houses going up in your area Deb are probably freaking them out, taking up their natural habitat, etc. I have seen rats out both during the day and nights- oppossum are a different story, they are an evening, night critter so figure yours was disrupted, likely by the dogs.

Now, I have a new problem- and I mean new, I was in the yard yesterday, mowing and was not bothered at all, this morning was throwing some fertilizer at a tree and surrounding amaryllis, walked away and then it dawned on me that I had just been among quite a few of these little buggers, looked up and...