{"id":89,"date":"2017-01-17T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-01-17T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:27:17","slug":"what-is-solenopsis-invicta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/what-is-solenopsis-invicta\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Solenopsis invicta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Solenposis invicta <\/em>is the red imported fire ant. \u00a0This ant is a native of South America that arrived in Mobile, Alabama in the early part of the 20th century. \u00a0It is a master of utilizing disturbed areas so as the southern portion of the United States was transformed from small rural farms to a more homogeneous bulldozed landscape the ant found many pathways to spread.<\/p>\n<p>The small ant is red in color and lives in colonies. \u00a0Reports vary regarding why the animal is a pest. \u00a0This blog and store is for the home gardener and the reason why I don&#8217;t like this little ant is because of its nasty and lingering sting.<\/p>\n<p>The sting of a fire ant hurts! \u00a0The sting of a fire ant is ugly, and slow to heal. \u00a0Therefore, I recommend keeping your distance. \u00a0But if the ant is in your space, it must move along and the best way to get it going is to use Diatomite.<\/p>\n<p>Diatomite will immediately clear the surface of ants and protect you from stings.<\/p>\n<p>Buy it!<\/p>\n<p>Try it!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fear the tiny ant in your garden. \u00a0Milligram for milligram we humans can&#8217;t beat the ant on strength, but we can out smart them, with Diatomite!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solenposis invicta is the red imported fire ant. \u00a0This ant is a native of South America that arrived in Mobile, Alabama in the early part of the 20th century. \u00a0It is a master of utilizing disturbed areas so as the southern portion of the United States was transformed from small rural farms to a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}