Ok, so after 3 weeks of rain and business travel, I finally get around to mowing the back yard, I have kept the front cut, Anyway, on my trapse around the 1/4 acre, I find 4 fairly decent sized fire ant mounds. After passing the mower over them the ants are just plain swarming around the hills. I can clearly the tunnels they have formed. After finding the second one, I decide to gert the gasoline.
Once finished mowing I walk around the yard dumping a cup or so of gas on each mound. Then I go get the matches. Heres the observation, Once I dropped the lit match on top of the mound there was a very gratifying whump sound, and then I noticed that flames were sprouting up a few feet away from the main mound.. This happened on all 4 mounds. I let each mound burn for about 5 minutes and then extinguished the flames.
I though it was pretty cool the way the flames traveled thru the tunnels. I could not see much movement afterwards. Hopefully I got the queens.
Made me think we should be dropping FAE bombs all over teh tunnel regions of 'Stan.
No pics unless you want to seen 4 burn spots in my yard.