ESSENTIAL OILS TAKE ON FIRE ANTS!

My latest issue of Hortideas has arrived (we've visited its pages before). Here's my pick from its nerdy to noteworthy monthly offerings:

Feng Yu Jing, an essential oil product sold in China as an over-the-counter herbal medicine, is a high- ly effective repellent for the red fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) that have become a widespread scourge in the South. Feng Yu Jing contains camphor, eucalyptol, eugenol, menthol, methyl salicylate, and phenylethanol...more research is needed to develop effective application methods for the active ingredients in Feng Yu Jing.
A source of Feng Yu Jing in the U.S. is Max Nature Products.

If you do go to that website, note that the product's referred to as Golden Dragon Medicated Oil for relief of aches and pains, not fire ants.