Posted on 10/24/2019 7:12:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
There's a better way to get rid of them.
This man took matters into his own hands and put fire to what appears to be an ant nest in his backyard.
Not surprisingly, this didn't go well. He blew up more than just ants in this DIY-gone-wrong (though luckily no humansor dogswere injured).
To correctly get rid of those pesky ants, we've got a Popular Mechanics guide.
When those irritating little ants start showing up in the house, raiding the kitchen for crumbs and making cozy homes in your walls, the natural reaction is to set an ant trap or call the exterminator, right?
Uh, not for this guy.
He took matters into his own hands and decided, for some reason, that the best course of action involved pouring gasoline into the ant nest in his back yard, throwing a match in, and watching his plan go up in flames.
About two seconds after the match hit the gas-soaked soil, the ground cracked and blew up in the air with the force of a mini explosion. Please, don't try this at home.
Instead of using this half-baked method, you can do the sane thing and follow our Popular Mechanics guide to exterminating the pests, which involves professionals, a bit of cleaning, and tracking ants to their nest with liquid baitnot explosions.
Thank You for the Recipe Im 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 ?
I’ve just done some more research, and you are correct. That sucks. I’d rather have the fire ants than the crazy ants.
Well, his mistake was to light the gasoline. Gasoline in the hole will kill even fire ants. No need to ignite - just walk away.
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.
This is what happens when cousins marry.
The dog took off!.................
..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...
Add sugar for ants, roaches. Should work for flies, not sure about ticks and for serious blood suckers, youll need some delivery device, preferably belt fed.
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.
Don’t use gasoline. Lighter fluid works well and is much safer.
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.
LOL! Did you see his dog calmly laying there watching the whole thing?
Pure cold pressed orange oil/dawn/water. Instant death.
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.
That would be fun.
But a lot less fun!............................
Yep, until it went BOOM!................
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