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How does one kill crazy ants (tawny ants) here in the South Central Texas region?
Ant problems | 13 November 2016 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Posted on 11/13/2016 1:48:53 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

How does one kill crazy ants in a do-it-yourself way? We've put down Boric Acid and flea spray, both of which kill them. But, they keep coming back by the thousands. Any ideas?


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To: EvilCapitalist

lol but reading my mind can be an ugly thing at times.. :o)


101 posted on 11/13/2016 4:46:43 PM PST by goat granny
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

See if you can find out where they are entering the house by following their trail back to the source.

Get some Vaseline or Mentholatum and smear it around the hole where the come in and down their trail for a short way. Your problem will end.


102 posted on 11/13/2016 4:46:43 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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Post # 12 is correct:

“TERRO Liquid Ant Baits” works very well for the little Florida ants. They will dry out over time, but I’ve found that you can put a few drops of water in them, and they ‘go active’ again!


103 posted on 11/13/2016 5:10:02 PM PST by InkStone (Omni Vivum Ex Surfboard)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Pure Clorox Bleach, straight out of the container. Pour a circle around the nest, then pour an X over the circle. Works every time... they can’t handle the Clorox gas that’s produced, it doesn’t hurt the environment, it’s short lived and its inexpensive.


104 posted on 11/13/2016 5:18:31 PM PST by SA-X4
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To: Buttons12

Diatomaceous earth

I second this suggestion. Harmless to everything but bugs.


105 posted on 11/13/2016 6:00:07 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Strac6
Did you say Sig?

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106 posted on 11/13/2016 6:22:17 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: EvilCapitalist; All
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107 posted on 11/13/2016 6:24:30 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Try dry corn meal. They eat it, and their digestive moisture should explode them from the inside. This works for fire ants which are just as bad in this part of Texas.
Sprinkle some grains around the ant hill and await their fate.


108 posted on 11/13/2016 6:30:22 PM PST by V K Lee (DJ TRUMP=My Strongest Advocate MAGA; DJT=The Swamp Drainer)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

To control them....

https://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/topic-files/household-insects/tawny_crazy_ant_control_recommendations.pdf


109 posted on 11/13/2016 6:36:31 PM PST by V K Lee (DJ TRUMP=My Strongest Advocate MAGA; DJT=The Swamp Drainer)
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To: Cobra64

Sig-Sauer

When you care enough to send the very best.....


110 posted on 11/13/2016 6:41:07 PM PST by Strac6 (Sig Sauer, Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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To: V K Lee

Thanks!


111 posted on 11/13/2016 6:45:00 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/guide-to-crazy-ants

Good luck!


112 posted on 11/13/2016 6:45:56 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: lafroste
What we did in the 60’s once an offending nest was id’ed was take a cup of KNO3 + Sugar that had been thoroughly mixed and dump it in the nest after you created a depression in the nest with a shovel. Light it with a flare or butane torch and stand back and enjoy the show. The column of fire and the roar was quite impressive. The nest was “nuked” insomuch as there was a glassy pit and the heat killed everything below it.

Be aware the fire dept may be called due to the smoke/fire and noise if you are in a populated area. LOL

113 posted on 11/13/2016 7:17:04 PM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Just go to Lowes or Home Depot, in the pesticide section look for the Ortho fire ant killer, it granular and you just spread some on the hill, couple days, they are gone.


114 posted on 11/13/2016 7:59:49 PM PST by N9841A
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I would think Amdro would do the trick. Works with fire ants.

The more emotionally satisfying way is to pour a quart or so of gasoline on the mound, wait a couple minutes, then throw a match on it (or, if it’s a really big mound, stand back and shoot a bottle rocket at it). Nice satisfying kaboom, ants turn to ashes. Kills the grass, though.


115 posted on 11/13/2016 8:02:50 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Some people inadvertently blow up their septic systems doing that with underground yellow jacket nests. There are multiple entrances and the underground tunnels can be quite extensive in a large nest. Igniting gasoline after pouring it into such a nest can be more than you bargained for.


116 posted on 11/13/2016 8:05:16 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
We had carpenter ants and we were advised NOT to use a general, long-lasting bug spray. There's a repulsive smell in that type of bug killer, and it makes the ants avoid the sprayed area. It killed the visible ants but the nest and queen were left. It will also probably make the queen break up the main colony into smaller colonies around your home. You don't want to do that.

You need a non-repulsing bait system. The ants pick up the bait, carry it back to the nest and the rest of the ants eat the poison. The nest can be gone in 3-4 days.

I bought a couple different bait types online at a do-it-yourself pest control website...an oily kind and a sweet kind. I'm not sure the site below is the one I used for ants, but have bought from them in the past for general bug treatment. But, you can get a lot of info from this type of site.

It worked for us.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/ants-c-1.html

117 posted on 11/13/2016 8:32:41 PM PST by moovova
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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Diatomaceous earth is quite effective.
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118 posted on 11/13/2016 8:34:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

At first, I used Terro and it seemed to work well, a few years ago. The past 2 or 3 years we’ve had the small brown ants getting into the kitchen, I’ve tried Terro, no workie. Tried mixing boric acid with a little jelly, no workie. finally tried some Raid ant baits, little black plastic things, they finally got rid of the ants, or maybe it was a combination of everything I could think of all at once...

For fire ants, a big problem here in Texas, I use powdered laundry detergent. Mix about a cup with a gallon of hot water, just at dark when they all go back to the nest, pour it on the nest and cover with a 5 gallon bucket. Ammonia used the same way works pretty well. You might have a yellow spot for a while but it will grow back.

I might try the diatmaceous earth for fire ants, but don’t know where the brown ants are nesting.

What I need is something for a rat. One has taken over the RV I’m in, chewing everything in sight and carried off a lot of stuff. I’ve kept a rat trap baited for 3 months, it’s been sprung a dozen times, no good. Peanut butter is the best bait I’ve ever used for mice, used it with rats several times with good results too, this time nothing. I’ve also tried pieces of a candy bar, sunflower seeds, the rat got all of them except the one lodged under the bait tab...even got a mouse bait trap, opened it up and used the poison block inside, no good. First one I put out it carried off the whole block, second one was used as bait in the rat trap, so far nothing...I’m almost ready to load the .22 with pellet shot and sit there and wait...or try a live trap...


119 posted on 11/13/2016 9:02:31 PM PST by Paleo Pete (President Trump. I can live with that...)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I was reading in a Science Journal that crazy ants emit a chemical that chases-off fire ants. Pick your poison!


120 posted on 11/13/2016 9:15:59 PM PST by Does so ( 'Time for English as the US' sole National language...==8-O)
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