After I moved to the Rio Grande Valley in 1979, I can’t remember how long it took before I got bitten by my first fire ant, but it couldn’t have been long. There I was out in the yard, cutting the grass, and what the… The pain. The searing pain. From one little ant? I’ve often said, if you get enough fire ants up your pants leg – the literal interpretation of ants in your pants – you will drop your pants no matter where you are, no matter who is around. Man or woman, those ants are headed north,