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Article: Fire ants continue to plague outdoor cooling equipment in southern states.

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September 16, 1991
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HOUSTON -- Now do you deal with fire ants? Ask John Guerry, president of Aardvark Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc.; he's fought them in the trenches.

"After repairing an outdoor unit, I was reloading my truck when I stepped in a fire ant bed. I had to pull off my pants and start slapping fire ants right in the middle of Spring Branch. Fortunately, it was night and very dark."

Guerry deals with fire ants carefully.

The nasty little creatures like the sandy, loamy soil west and northwest of Houston. That area, once thriving rice paddies, is the ancestral home of huge fire ant colonies. With developers, builders, and homeowners appropriating ...

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