When Life Gives You Ants, Don't Blow Up Your Backyard

Popular Mechanics ^ | By Courtney Linder Oct 23, 2019

[mabarker1]

Thank You for the Recipe I’m filing that one and passing it on as well.

Will it work on the rest of the pest population like: Flies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Ants, Ticks, Cockroaches, Spiders and perhaps the most important of All... Politicians ?

[ShadowAce]

I’ve just done some more research, and you are correct. That sucks. I’d rather have the fire ants than the crazy ants.

[Delta 21]

That'll teach those bastards!!

[mabarker1]

Stapled to My forehead written backwards so I can read it in the mirror.🤪

[Hatteras]

[HeadOn]

Well, his mistake was to light the gasoline. Gasoline in the hole will kill even fire ants. No need to ignite - just walk away.

[Wonder Warthog]

The mistake the guy made was the match. Just pour the gas on the mound and leave it. Being heavier than air, the gasoline vapors descend into the ant tunnels and suffocate the little buggers, including the queen.

Works for fire ant mounds. Done it many, many times.

[jmacusa]

This is what happens when cousins marry.

[Red Badger]

The dog took off!.................

[WalterSkinner]

..nothing beats Fipronil. The ants carry it back to the nest and it kills the colony. Primarily labeled for termites. Brand name is Termidor but there is a cheaper version called Taurus...

[NativeSon]

Add sugar for ants, roaches. Should work for flies, not sure about ticks and for serious blood suckers, you’ll need some delivery device, preferably belt fed.

[Libloather]

Terro. Available at Lowe’s hardware. Sugar water mixed with borax. The whole fam damly will show up to munch. Let them. In a few days they’ll all be gone.

http://www.terro.com/

[ViLaLuz]

Don’t use gasoline. Lighter fluid works well and is much safer.

[ViLaLuz]

Inside the house I mix one half sugar and one half boric acid powder. Fill plastic bottle caps and set them where you see ants. They take the treated sugar back to their colony, eat it and die. Works great.

[ViLaLuz]

LOL! Did you see his dog calmly laying there watching the whole thing?

[xone]

Pure cold pressed orange oil/dawn/water. Instant death.

[2111USMC]

Yep.

I kill off anthills in the cracks of my garage concrete floor with gasoline. I don’t light it. The gas seems to eat right through their little bodies.

[thecodont]

That would be fun.

[Red Badger]

But a lot less fun!............................

[Red Badger]

Yep, until it went BOOM!................