Have you ever thought of those little bitty, stinging ants as predators? Well they are. You know how much the sting of a fire ant hurts on a human, but can you imagine being a small, featherless, baby bird and being stung by one. Fire ants are one of the creatures that can dimish the number of song birds in an area. They have an uncanny way of sniffing out a new nest of newly hatched songbirds and invading.
The weather was so crazy last year that we didn't get the ants poisoned on the whole place. On March 22, Howard pulled a spreader behind the four wheeler and put out fire ant bait on the whole property. A week later there were still some fire ant mounds. Spot application was the next order of control. Hopefully this year no baby birds will be lost a fire ant!
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