Our 2025 SGBC Find the Fire Ant Hunt is over! Congrats to Jay Davis!
(3/19/25 update)
Want to win $1500? All you have to do is find the large plastic ant in our annual South Georgia Banking Company Find the Fire Ant Contest!
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The highly competitive county-wide scavenger hunt is back! The big plastic purple/blue ant will be somewhere in Turner County and waiting for you to find it starting Monday, March 3, 2025. Whoever finds it first, whether with skill or by luck, gets $1500, a photo in the Wiregrass Farmer, and bragging rights.
- When: Starting Monday, March 3, 2025
- Prize: $1500, your photo in The Wiregrass Farmer, and ultimate bragging rights!
Search high, search low—this is your chance to join the circus of champions. Will you find it by skill or sheer luck? Let the hunt begin
Clue dates and locations!
🔥🐜March 3 – South Georgia Banking Company & BONUS Fire Ant Festival Newsletter clue. You must subscribe to the newsletter to receive that clue before it is sent out on March 3, 2025, at noon. Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/gKUrPT
🔥🐜March 4 – Parker Chevrolet GMC
🔥🐜March 5 – The Wiregrass Farmer
🔥🐜March 6 – Turner County Board of Education (Turner County Schools)
🔥🐜March 7 – Ashburn Department Of Public Safety
🔥🐜March 10 – City Hall of Ashburn
🔥🐜March 11 -La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant
🔥🐜March 12 – Birdsong Peanut
🔥🐜March 13 – Colony Bank
🔥🐜March 14 – Retro FM 102.1 (We will give you certain 10-minute windows to listen for the clue. Stay tuned to our Facebook page for times!)
🔥🐜March 17 -Sweet T’s Cafe & Catering
🔥🐜March 18 – Victoria Evans Memorial Library
🔥🐜March 19 – Perry Funeral Chapel, Inc.
🔥🐜March 20 – Turner County Courthouse Annex
🔥🐜March 21 – Turner County Sheriff’s Office
🔥🐜March 24 – Ashburn – Turner County Chamber of Commerce
🔥🐜March 25 – South Georgia Banking Company
🔥🐜March 26 – Phoenix Wood Products LLC
🔥🐜March 27 – The Wiregrass Farmer
🔥🐜March 28 – Turner County Magistrate Judge’s Office (TC Courthouse)
Find the Fire Ant RULES:
- You must visit the businesses in person to get a clue. Do not call the business for the clue because they will not give it out over the phone. If a business decides to remove the clue, you will not get that clue unless another hider were to share their knowledge (or not… Strategy and all).
- Businesses are not obligated to post clues in easy-to-find locations. Some clues will be posted where you will have to walk the store and locate them.
- It is not in a garbage can.
- The ant is hidden on public property! You do not need to tear up anyone’s property to get to it.
- If it is still not found by Friday, March 28, either a new clue will be given or an old clue explained by Chief Ant Hider starting at 2 pm in Heritage Park. Up to 3 new clues/explanations can be voted on by the hunters present.
The Fire Ant Festival Committee is not responsible for any injuries that may occur while participating in the Find the Fire Ant hunt. By participating in this contest, I acknowledge that I have read and understood all of the terms of this release and that I am voluntarily giving up substantial legal rights, including the right to sue the sponsors. I acknowledge that I am over 18 and participating freely and voluntarily and understand that I am legally bound by the terms and conditions contained herein. My
$1500 prize
Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to get a bonus clue in March!
Rules and Terms
The Fire Ant Festival Committee is not responsible for any injuries that may occur while participating in the Find the Fire Ant hunt. By participating in this contest, I acknowledge that I have read and understood all of the terms of this release and that I am voluntarily giving up substantial legal rights, including the right to sue sponsor. I acknowledge that I am over 18 and participating freely and voluntarily and understand that I am legally bound by the terms and conditions contained herein.
The 2024 Find the Fire Ant contest is over. Congrats to Steve Chapman for finding the ant – for the second time!
We are so thankful to our sponsors:
