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Originally Posted by seaskimmer 
If you plan on digging stuff up, you could try a bee suit. I use one at work sometimes and they are resistant to almost any insect.
Never dealt with fire ants in Canada before, but you could try 'smoking' them as with bees to slow them down a bit when you are working near them.
If worst comes to worst, you could just dig a trench around the area then pour some gasoline.....
Or if you have any fireworks left over from the fourth of July....
the gasoline doesn't seem like a bad idea, though my natural gardening book tells me to never use pesticides and such...any natural predators other than the anteater?
