I checked out Bull ants and they must be a real nightmare. They also Sting.
Yup, they'd have to be the worst garden pest know to man... while others may eat the plants, bull ants try to eat you, and it hurts quite a bit just to be bitten once. Imagine a few or several bites. That's why the mowing is done in record time... no stopping long enough for them to latch on and bite., though I still get the occasional one now and then.
There certainly is less of them than when we moved here, so I may just be beginning to win the war with this 'ant sand' that gets taken to the nest and kills many of them off. I'll still try the baby powder, though, it might just be the edge I need to finally be rid of them.
And why wouldn't you be able to land right beside me with your whrlygig?
So long as I bring the picnic and a bottle of wine, right?