[Rich Lambert]

Nasty little creatures. I used to play golf with my dad at the Texaco Country Club, just outside Houston. That was my first exposure to fire ants. My dad told me to touch the top of an ant hill with a club head and you could not pull that thing away fast enough before ants were swarming up the shaft. After that first incident, I stopped looking out for water moccasins and 'gators and started watching for ant hills.