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[Bourboncask]

What do you guys do when you split a round open and it's full of dormant black ants??  I usually toss it off to the side for fear those buggers will infect the rest of my wood pile.  Is this warranted?  Or are they so weak from hibernation to find a new home and just die off?   

[slimjim]

Throw it in the stove of course!

[mlappin]

Throw it in the stove of course!

Ditto.

[Roger2561]

Throw it in the stove of course!

Don't forget to soak them in butter and then add a pinch of salt and pepper...good and tasty that way.   

[E Yoder]

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Don't forget to soak them in butter and then add a pinch of salt and pepper...good and tasty that way.   
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My cousin brought some roasted ants up from Colombia. I passed...

[Bourboncask]

If I had a stove at the moment, I would toss them in.  As of right now, I'm just building up my wood supply for when I'm able to get one.  I thought it was going to be this spring, but things came up.  So, next year hopefully.  Until then, I'm cutting and splitting and stacking and learning.  I guess I'll just continue to toss ant infested rounds off to the side.  I should have known that I'm probably one of the few people associated with this site that don't own a OWB yet.  In hind sight, you guys wouldn't share in my ant dilemma now would you.... 

[ST98]

After I built my pole barn I started dumping wood about 75' from it, maybe 20 cord of rounds. One day I was in the pole barn and noticed the pressure treated 6x6's had holes in them. The ants were everywhere doing damage and they came from that wood. I got on amazon and ordered two different baits, sugar and then protein I think. After a month no more ants.  It's said they will branch out a about 300 feet from their nest and do damage.

Now they go in the stove no matter how slow they move. I have about 40 cord stacked and bait the piles every year. I read they don't eat the wood, they do it to make nests.

[E Yoder]

If I had a stove at the moment, I would toss them in.  As of right now, I'm just building up my wood supply for when I'm able to get one.  I thought it was going to be this spring, but things came up.  So, next year hopefully.  Until then, I'm cutting and splitting and stacking and learning.  I guess I'll just continue to toss ant infested rounds off to the side.  I should have known that I'm probably one of the few people associated with this site that don't own a OWB yet.  In hind sight, you guys wouldn't share in my ant dilemma now would you.... 

Sorry, I was kinda rude.
I dumped a mix of borax and sugar around the house and it killed ants pretty good. Never worried about it in my firewood but I'm not taking it inside.

[MScott]

If the furnace is burning, I usually will just throw them in. Most of the time, however, when I'm splitting, the furnace is dormant so I just place the blocks split side up on top of the pile so the birds can get at the ants. Later I move the blocks to my "early wood" pile with the pine and other soft wood so that it can be burnt in the fall. Have'nt tried eating them with or without butter, salt or pepper.

[BIG AL]

A lot of our red oaks here are full of ants , black ones red and black ones. Sometimes you split a log and you might think there are more ants than wood.Too many to put them all in the stove at once so I let them live in the wood pile. Never seen them near the house about 90' away. In the spring we usually mix some ant poison and powdered sugar and put it out along the stone wall behind the wood pile. Never see any crawling around.

[aarmga]

That's a great question and I haven't even actually thought about it.  I usually knock of ants out the best I can then throw the split logs on the wood pile.

[hockeyguy]

I keep a can of Raid ant spray near my splitting area. Just give them a quick spray and brush them off.

[Bourboncask]

If I had a stove at the moment, I would toss them in.  As of right now, I'm just building up my wood supply for when I'm able to get one.  I thought it was going to be this spring, but things came up.  So, next year hopefully.  Until then, I'm cutting and splitting and stacking and learning.  I guess I'll just continue to toss ant infested rounds off to the side.  I should have known that I'm probably one of the few people associated with this site that don't own a OWB yet.  In hind sight, you guys wouldn't share in my ant dilemma now would you.... 

Sorry, I was kinda rude.
I dumped a mix of borax and sugar around the house and it killed ants pretty good. Never worried about it in my firewood but I'm not taking it inside.

No worries E Yonder - It was funny.

As of right know, I do burn wood in the house (large fireplace) during the winter, so I'm constantly bring wood inside. I get mosquitos flying around my house Dec - Feb which is weird for people who come over and a mosquito goes flying buy.  They seem to not bother us at all though.  Never been bit by one.  They just fly around looking drunk wondering "why the hell am I awake so soon?!?" 

I have a dog that runs free in the yard, so I don't like the baiting them with sugar poison idea.  I'll get me a can of Raid and go that route.  Thanks guys.  Simple solution for a simple problem.  Sometimes it just takes another set of eyes and brain to come up with it.   

[mlappin]

I found some in a cherry log I processed yesterday, by time they go thru the processor, the chute, up the elevator, get dumped on the truck, then dumped on the slab, then shoved in a pile with the skid steer they are either dead or waving a little white flag.

[Bourboncask]

I suppose