Melk,

I'm really shocked and disappointed to hear that Fire Ants made it all the way to Maine. Are you sure they were Fire Ants. These guys make huge mounds (for ants anyway) routinely the mounds are six inches high and about 12-14 inches in diameter. When you disturb a mound, they swarm out by the thousands to attack whoever or whatever disturbed the mound. We had red ants when I lived in New England, but never Fire Ants. That said, these little stinkers migrate fast and are very hard to stop. I've seen them flooded out by 2-3 feet of water and they simply make a floating island out of thousands of ants and float to dry land to start over. I sure hope that they're not that far North.

Jim Smith