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Old Posted Apr 19, 2021, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by CaliNative View Post
Fire ants are nasty.
Yep. And conventional wisdom here warns against running over one of their mounds with the lawnmower because, the danger of them running up your legs notwithstanding, they get slung everywhere and just start building new nests wherever they land.
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