Red ant colonies like that in FL are no joke. Their bite burns like acid, for real. Never been afraid of snake, lizard, or gators in FL, gotta worry about the bugs taking you out! 😆
Oooooooooooh chile....Now I gotta drop my expectations....I ustah say I will fight a man with a gun in his hand but if he had a rat in his hand, THEN, I'm done...Now you mean the bugs????? whewwwwwwwwwwwww. I'm in trouble.
Floridians tend to freak out at the sight of Cantore aka Summoner of Hurricanes. The presence of Jim Cantore in a neighborhood can cause panic and a rush to the local Publix for snacks to last the incoming storm. 😂😉😁
@@billmadison2032 It's not that we don't like him, it's just that having the Angel of Doom in your neighborhood tends to hit people in strange ways.😉😁🤣
As a native, we should be scaring the newbies and the newbies-to-be away. There isn't a whole lot left of Florida. If this keeps up you will not be warning people about wild thing as there won't be any wild left. You'll be teaching them how to survive HOA's and sinkholes created by all the development and subdivisions.
lol. Growing up just outside of New Orleans, we would play in the hurricanes and tropical storms. I was probably 5 or 6 when I discovered the joy of floating red ant colonies. I literally waded right up to it and grabbed it to see what the hell it was.🤣. Btw, I’d love to see what you’d come up with for a floating fire ant nest character and costume!!!!
I never knew about the floating ants! Thanks for the heads up. My backyard is a nature preserve that's floods. I'm going to keep an eye out for that, now. Thanks Wicks!
Don't forget the "Lightning out of the Blue" during Spring and Summer storms. It is no joke. Lightning can hit from 10 miles away!! If you hear Thunder, get in a building. Never get under Trees!! I f you are on a Golf course, remember that the clubs are a Lightning rod.
You really know what our state is all about. Those ants will get you before any gator,snake,cougar . Or any other critter. They're creepy,crawly terrors.
@LadyBern I have some that are USB powered so they can be plugged into my battery/ power packs which are solar rechargeable and work for my phone as well.
@@IMWeira we only had one close once but it was open right to the moment it started. It's not that it was bad. Flo was so freaking slow. She sat and spun on us. It's weird the damage it caused, the structure of the building was fine but it's an historical building so yeah, leaked like crazy and the power went out. They took a month to restore it.
Those fire ant balls are no joke. I got VERY lucky back in 2014 when we had well over 20 inches of rain in Pensacola that fell pretty much in 24 hours. I was running out in the deluge to grab some spare sandbags we keep around for hurricanes because we were getting flooding in the garage and back den. It was night and I didn't see the massive completely saturated fireant bed before I stepped right into it and my leg sank half way to my knee. My guardian angel was working overtime, because by that time, the ants had already vacated...I saw them about 20 feet away with my headlamp...a floating wad of pissed off pain generators. If they had still been home, there's a good chance that the thousands of stings could have killed me.
Them damn insects on homicidal suicidal missions. Keeping my hiney in TN….. they are bad enough here and you need your privacy down there in FLA. Much respect
Do not trust the grass, keep yourself, children and pets away from bodies of freshwater and check your outdoor shoes, chairs etc before you use them and you will be well on your way to navigating FL life successfully. 😉
The red ant piles are no joke. But in rain and flooding that lasts several days, I would urge people to just keep an eye out for snakes in places they normally wouldn't be. They'll climb up anything to avoid rising water so if it's been flooding in your area, maybe check the underside of your patio furniture and park picnic tables before sitting down because they'll take refuge by climbing up supports and curling up there. Or around porch steps and definitely your potted plants. Don't be trying to reach for some basil or trying to trim your potted strawberries or rosebushes without checking around the bottom and actually around the plant, in the dirt. Though my biggest issue lately has been freaking GIANT toads burrowing in my potted plants at night. Not only do they freak me out by popping out like some nightmare Stephen King jack in the box when I'm doing plant maintenance but I keep having to replace a bunch of dirt. Found one as big as a softball the other day.
If only I knew that when I was 4! Hahaha! Out cruising in the blow up raft with Dad & I decided to hop out in front of the neighbors house... haha! They got me 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜
Ah, my beautiful Florida. 60 years and you can still find some new terror to haunt my back-bush, tall grass wanderings. So as it floats along, waiting to crash into something unfortunate, is its theme song Jaws or Pink Panther?
My neighbor from Chicagoland, who would call the police if a rabbit was on her property, moved to Flo-ri-duhhhhh....and I am thinking gurlllllllll....you skaid of bunnies....what'cha'gonna'do nah with lizards and stuff?? But then there's my lil 'cuz who is a wannabe Crocodile Dundee... he needs his own sitcom cuz he all in with the wilder side of Flo-ri-duhhhhhhhhhh
Back in the day. Chased by a" BIG" dog while getting sugar for mom.... rounded a corner...shit man....Crash...bike hit the curb. Needless to say...thrown in to a sticker patch..with ants... dog came an licked me.
Got bit today while walking my dog.In my backyard in Florida ive seen snakes, bobcats, river otters,hogs,etc. The worst was a Eastern Diamondback Rattle Snake.😢😢
I live in Riverside, Jacksonville. This morning I saved a spider from being flushed. I offered it toilet paper and it accepted. I do not know where it wandered off to after a safe landing on the bathroom floor. I did not step on it.
It's not hurricanes, alligators, bears, droughts, flooding... that we survived for over a half century... it has been human beings. Including the most recent wildfires 😢. God loves them, and we're trying...😉 🙌💖🙏✨️💜👵❗️
So the red hot pissed off fire ants are now floating in Mass been bitching for a minute and then bump into you your toast you can't even jump in the water to get them off😅
I think living on Florida requires three things in the Summer the Three B's....Boat, Believe this too shall pass and if You dont have the first two add Booze that seems to be what most did in The Keys when I first moved here😂😂😂Hurricane prep really means party planning 😀 🌀🍷🌀🍸🌀🫗🌀🥃🌀🍹🌀🍶🌀🍾🌀🍺🌀🥂🌀🍻
Red ant colonies like that in FL are no joke. Their bite burns like acid, for real. Never been afraid of snake, lizard, or gators in FL, gotta worry about the bugs taking you out! 😆
Oooooooooooh chile....Now I gotta drop my expectations....I ustah say I will fight a man with a gun in his hand but if he had a rat in his hand, THEN, I'm done...Now you mean the bugs????? whewwwwwwwwwwwww. I'm in trouble.
I'd take a rat over a fire ant hill any day. The rat at least is afraid of you. To the ants, you're just meat.
@@MelissaThompson432 Now I'm scared of you cuz you ain't 'skaid' of rats. Izzz you from Florida? hahahahahahaha
@@MelissaThompson432 Exactly right!
Yeah I accidentally stepped on a pile of em a week ago and they are no joke definitely more scared of them than the gators and crocs
Wicks, if you could get an interview with Jim Cantore, and have him share his most Florida-ing stories, that would be brilliant.
Floridians tend to freak out at the sight of Cantore aka Summoner of Hurricanes.
The presence of Jim Cantore in a neighborhood can cause panic and a rush to the local Publix for snacks to last the incoming storm. 😂😉😁
😂, Jim would tell him how he was hanging onto a Coconut tree sideways as hurricane Andrew came into Homestead Florida in August 1992. 😂😂😂😂
we don't like the clown
@@billmadison2032 It's not that we don't like him, it's just that having the Angel of Doom in your neighborhood tends to hit people in strange ways.😉😁🤣
@@randomchordwhen I lived in Houston and Cantore showed up on Galveston during Ike, I knew we were effed. Or was it Harvey 🤔
🐜🔥 THAT is Floating HELL FIRE!! 🔥🐜
We're loving your content! We are here for the summer and we appreciate you helping us survive Florida! 😆 Keep it coming!
Always have your pub sub protector ready to protect your pub sub from fire ants.
Wicks thank you for your channel. Floridian since 1962.😊❤
Thanks Wicks 😊 You are my number 1 Florida man ❤
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Wicks! You're sending your rain our way in Louisiana! Y'all can keep the flooding man lol
Spot on.
Rain, insects from fire ants to termites, invasive species of snakes to hogs and invasive plants pose bigger threats than gators or crocs.
I really like the Helping new floridians vids--funny and helpful. Imma native who appreciates the help for newbies
Seriously...he helps..this is wildly tropical.
As a native, we should be scaring the newbies and the newbies-to-be away. There isn't a whole lot left of Florida. If this keeps up you will not be warning people about wild thing as there won't be any wild left. You'll be teaching them how to survive HOA's and sinkholes created by all the development and subdivisions.
lol. Growing up just outside of New Orleans, we would play in the hurricanes and tropical storms. I was probably 5 or 6 when I discovered the joy of floating red ant colonies. I literally waded right up to it and grabbed it to see what the hell it was.🤣. Btw, I’d love to see what you’d come up with for a floating fire ant nest character and costume!!!!
I never knew about the floating ants! Thanks for the heads up. My backyard is a nature preserve that's floods. I'm going to keep an eye out for that, now. Thanks Wicks!
Don't forget the "Lightning out of the Blue" during Spring and Summer storms. It is no joke. Lightning can hit from 10 miles away!! If you hear Thunder, get in a building. Never get under Trees!! I f you are on a Golf course, remember that the clubs are a Lightning rod.
You nailed it wicks !. Those floating fire ants will tear your day up.
Floating Fireant mounds….
Not even Jumanji has that nightmare
You have helped educated me on Florida and Floridians. Very nice people.ty
lol gator’s just watching from the sidelines watching it all go down
Looks like rain today💚✌🏽🌧️Floridians don’t use umbrellas. Thanks wicks👋🏽
You really know what our state is all about.
Those ants will get you before any gator,snake,cougar .
Or any other critter.
They're creepy,crawly terrors.
Hurricane 🌀 season Y'all.
Got my canned goods, weather radio, and camper stove ready! I just need a solar powered fan.
@LadyBern I have some that are USB powered so they can be plugged into my battery/ power packs which are solar rechargeable and work for my phone as well.
@@TheReflectivePerspective we just need something to combat the humidity following a hurricane. I'll take the heat but not the humidity!
Number one thing to know during Hurricane Season is whether or not the Waffle House is open. If its open, you're good! @LadyBern
@@IMWeira we only had one close once but it was open right to the moment it started. It's not that it was bad. Flo was so freaking slow. She sat and spun on us. It's weird the damage it caused, the structure of the building was fine but it's an historical building so yeah, leaked like crazy and the power went out. They took a month to restore it.
I swear you should be the spokesman for Florida 😂😂
The Villages lmfao.
And dont forget about the giant spiders that lurk in the dark! They'll get ya every time while your looking for the floating ant piles.
Facts, all facts. All the time Floridaing!! 😂❤
These are facts I'm hurting thinking about getting bit 😢😳🤕 ouch watch out please for those floating ant 🐜 piles
Those fire ant balls are no joke.
I got VERY lucky back in 2014 when we had well over 20 inches of rain in Pensacola that fell pretty much in 24 hours. I was running out in the deluge to grab some spare sandbags we keep around for hurricanes because we were getting flooding in the garage and back den. It was night and I didn't see the massive completely saturated fireant bed before I stepped right into it and my leg sank half way to my knee. My guardian angel was working overtime, because by that time, the ants had already vacated...I saw them about 20 feet away with my headlamp...a floating wad of pissed off pain generators. If they had still been home, there's a good chance that the thousands of stings could have killed me.
I'm a transplant since 07 been all over America ,Florida has been a challenge, but I'm a country boy and will survive.
Them damn insects on homicidal suicidal missions. Keeping my hiney in TN….. they are bad enough here and you need your privacy down there in FLA. Much respect
Thank Wicks, now Iam going to have a nap in the grass.
Thank you. New Floridian here, and i just want to fit in 😊
Do not trust the grass, keep yourself, children and pets away from bodies of freshwater and check your outdoor shoes, chairs etc before you use them and you will be well on your way to navigating FL life successfully. 😉
😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
As an East Texan I agree with everything you've said about our part of the country as well
Love the shirt!😊
Doing God's work here with this PSA.
Same thing in tx, though not so...big.
I had to rewind to the beginning when I realized I was just awed by your t-shirt choice and did not hear a thing you said. 😅
The red ant piles are no joke. But in rain and flooding that lasts several days, I would urge people to just keep an eye out for snakes in places they normally wouldn't be. They'll climb up anything to avoid rising water so if it's been flooding in your area, maybe check the underside of your patio furniture and park picnic tables before sitting down because they'll take refuge by climbing up supports and curling up there. Or around porch steps and definitely your potted plants. Don't be trying to reach for some basil or trying to trim your potted strawberries or rosebushes without checking around the bottom and actually around the plant, in the dirt. Though my biggest issue lately has been freaking GIANT toads burrowing in my potted plants at night. Not only do they freak me out by popping out like some nightmare Stephen King jack in the box when I'm doing plant maintenance but I keep having to replace a bunch of dirt. Found one as big as a softball the other day.
Nice shirt, what color is your loofah, on your golf cart
You would be a great guest on the Florida Men on Florida Man podcast. They have local guests all the time. Hope you reach out to them!
Leesburg represent
Gotta love the Fire ants that actually create a floating Fire ant island. 😂😂😂😂😂 I actually typed this just before he said . 😂😂😂😂😂
Those 🐜🐜🐜🐜don't play.
Those evil fire ants are no joke!
Words of wisdom!
If only I knew that when I was 4! Hahaha! Out cruising in the blow up raft with Dad & I decided to hop out in front of the neighbors house... haha! They got me 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜
Ah, my beautiful Florida.
60 years and you can still find some new terror to haunt my back-bush, tall grass wanderings.
So as it floats along, waiting to crash into something unfortunate, is its theme song Jaws or Pink Panther?
Jaws for sure.
I like that shirt
Bro your T-SHIRT!!! 😂😂😂
My neighbor from Chicagoland, who would call the police if a rabbit was on her property, moved to Flo-ri-duhhhhh....and I am thinking gurlllllllll....you skaid of bunnies....what'cha'gonna'do nah with lizards and stuff?? But then there's my lil 'cuz who is a wannabe Crocodile Dundee... he needs his own sitcom cuz he all in with the wilder side of Flo-ri-duhhhhhhhhhh
😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
The creepy crawlies are more common and will take you out faster than any other danger, except people.
Back in the day. Chased by a" BIG" dog while getting sugar for mom.... rounded a corner...shit man....Crash...bike hit the curb. Needless to say...thrown in to a sticker patch..with ants... dog came an licked me.
Never came up on a floating ant pile but I vividly remember my first fire ant hill. Fortunately my reflexes were still sharp and I only got 3 bites.
WICKS FIX 🏝🏝🏝🏝
Isn't it about time for the land crab invasion.
I wished we had them... yumm
Yoooo 🤣 That shirt 🤣🤣🤣 i wonder how many people realize what that shirt means
Got bit today while walking my dog.In my backyard in Florida ive seen snakes, bobcats, river otters,hogs,etc. The worst was a Eastern Diamondback Rattle Snake.😢😢
WELL SAID MY BROTHER1❤️
The red ants got me good and it's burns like lava
And you thought you were stepping on a dirt pile 🤣
Don't forget the mosquito gangs that come out if there's so much as ONE DROP of stagnate water around....😒
His shirt...IYKYK
Oh yes, floating fire ants-those are category 5 kind of bad! 😱
He speaks facts.
I live in Riverside, Jacksonville. This morning I saved a spider from being flushed. I offered it toilet paper and it accepted. I do not know where it wandered off to after a safe landing on the bathroom floor. I did not step on it.
Fire ants are BRUTAL
Not just Florida, Texas too.
Yikes! Sorry to hear that.😬
It's not hurricanes, alligators, bears, droughts, flooding... that we survived for over a half century... it has been human beings. Including the most recent wildfires 😢. God loves them, and we're trying...😉 🙌💖🙏✨️💜👵❗️
Your wearing a Villages shirt. ???
the summer monsoons.
Floating ants? Thats sounds horrible😂
Them being able to float is the best part
@Batmandabomb ik dude it's scary tho
@@fufuellan hey when Fire Ants get you it's no joke
Let a Fire Ant Island land on you ... Let me activate the Bat Phone
Tell them watch out for the ideal of moving down here we’re full.
100% accurate.
If you are moving to Florida, bring some raid
I fear the fire ants the most.
Make sure ya got the Waffle House on speed dial!🤣🤣❤️
So the red hot pissed off fire ants are now floating in Mass been bitching for a minute and then bump into you your toast you can't even jump in the water to get them off😅
Its all true
Best way to survive Florida is to not go to Florida.
One of nature's land mines .👹
True Floridians making the best of a wet situation
I will just stay at home
I think living on Florida requires three things in the Summer the Three B's....Boat, Believe this too shall pass and if You dont have the first two add Booze that seems to be what most did in The Keys when I first moved here😂😂😂Hurricane prep really means party planning 😀 🌀🍷🌀🍸🌀🫗🌀🥃🌀🍹🌀🍶🌀🍾🌀🍺🌀🥂🌀🍻