How to Use fire ant in a Sentence

fire ant

noun

• Most stinging ants, such as the fire ant, will nest in the ground.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al.com, 1 July 2019
• Palmer said the best control method for fire ants is to use baits.
  — Katie Nichols Communications Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 12 Apr. 2023
• The rest of the lots are filled with sparse grass and fire ants, awaiting backhoes.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2018
• Stir well, then pour over weeds or over fire ant hills.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• Is there a best way to treat for fire ants, and when should it be applied?
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Not only do some of the venues not allow pets, but the grounds and fields are sprayed to kill fire ants.
  — Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• But the fire ants in Hu’s lab are also adroit escape artists.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
• Questions have boiled out like fire ants these past few weeks.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 20 Oct. 2017
• The post recommends club soda as a method for killing fire ant mounds.
  — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• Debbie wakes with her own feet burning, though there are no fire ants in her room.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2020
• According to Brown, the most effective way to kill a fire ant mound is fire ant bait.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• The water turned thick and oily, boiling with angry clusters of fire ants.
  — Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
• One day Fitzgerald emerged from the water with his face bloody and swollen from an encounter with a mass of floating fire ants.
  — Author: John Schwartz and Livia Albeck Ripka, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Sep. 2017
• Tom Fazio’s name covers the list of top 50 courses in Texas like fire ant hills cover a lawn after a spring rain.
  — Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Use a fire ant bait to control mounds over a wide geographic area.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
• One of the most dangerous refugees from the floods, however, are floating rafts of stinging fire ants.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2017
• On that note, this fire ant killer may not work during hot and dry conditions because ants will likely be deep in the nest.
  — Anna Halkidis, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2023
• Exhaust fumes from a car or riding lawn mower can be pumped into fire ant mounds.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2017
• Treatments with bifenthrin and spinosad also exist that can be applied to fire ant mounds in the garden.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018
• El Abayarde, which means fire ant or stinging ant, had no fear in its lyrics or delivery.
  — Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2022
• We’re told to watch for fire ants, will spy tiny hopping frogs and many tree branches contain some sort of colorful pet.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Did Hurricane Harvey cause an influx of fire ants in Texas?
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• In China, scientists observed that some soils seemed to be favored by fire ant queens.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2020
• There are fly parasitoids that decapitate (or take the heads off) fire ants.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The blue poison dart frog feeds on fire ants, which could cause their toxicity.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Colonies of fire ants, having swarmed together, were floating around like rafts of live embers.
  — The Economist, 2 Sep. 2017
• These dramatically kill ants that run across them—the problem is that all fire ants are not like lemmings.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2017
• The soil is full of pathogenic fungi just waiting for a nice juicy fire ant to blunder into them.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2020
• The primary issue is that fire ants are a nuisance to gardeners.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• The waist was also covered in vampiric beadwork, small red rhinestones creeping up toward the bust like fire ants, and black droplets dangling off the waist.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024