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Amish way of killing ants without Raid?
1 posted on 06/26/2015 6:25:06 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Well, the ants are bad this year. Just saying.


2 posted on 06/26/2015 6:28:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: SMGFan; MeshugeMikey

Are his aunts ok?


3 posted on 06/26/2015 6:29:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: SMGFan

When I was a kid, we used methods that would get us locked up today.


4 posted on 06/26/2015 6:31:21 PM PDT by rey
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To: SMGFan

Latest Darwin Award nominee?


6 posted on 06/26/2015 6:33:21 PM PDT by rikkir (Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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To: SMGFan

My Daddy used to kill fire ant beds by pushing a pipe down the middle to maybe a foot depth. He would the pour a pint of so of gasoline down the hole and light it.

It seemed a pretty classy was to do it and it worked.

Me I just put a spoonful of Ortho on the mound then wet it. That works also.

Not sure which works best but Daddy’s system just might but I think it is more expensive.

You can keep fire ants out of your yard but it is a full time job or at least one you have to constantly watch for them.


7 posted on 06/26/2015 6:33:46 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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Amish way of killing ants without Raid?

Yes ... Because Martin Luther King Drive.

8 posted on 06/26/2015 6:35:55 PM PDT by johniegrad
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OK, who among us hasn’t....never mind....stupid, it burns.


9 posted on 06/26/2015 6:36:21 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: SMGFan

Glad he is OK, but how are the ants? Any word on casualties?


10 posted on 06/26/2015 6:36:29 PM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: SMGFan

Sounds like liberals supporting SSM.

They only wanted to do the world
a favor by burning the Christians
out of society./sarc


11 posted on 06/26/2015 6:36:46 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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http://www.wikihow.com/Kill-Ants-without-Pesticides


13 posted on 06/26/2015 6:39:34 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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Nothing good ever happens on Martin L. King, Jr. Blvd. Kent Brockman photo: Kent Brockman insect_overlords.jpg
18 posted on 06/26/2015 7:08:32 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: SMGFan

Hell, I do crazier stuff than this all the time, 2nd degree burns hardly rate a news article.


21 posted on 06/26/2015 7:21:32 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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That’s why you use diesel to burn pesky critters up. Had a hornets nest on a old shed we were going to demo, no exposure issues. Stuffed some diesel stuffed rags around the next at night and lit them using a long stick. Waited a minute or two and doused it with a couple garden hoses. Only used 100% organic materials to do it. ;)


22 posted on 06/26/2015 7:27:40 PM PDT by matt04
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23 posted on 06/26/2015 7:29:38 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: SMGFan
This is why we can't have nice things.


26 posted on 06/26/2015 8:26:00 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SMGFan

damn fire ants!!


28 posted on 06/26/2015 8:43:00 PM PDT by Longdriver69
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I had a half-acre lot and the back 25% was loaded with fire ants that had mounds 1-2 feet high. I always was getting stung by the ants when using my line trimmer back there.

About every two weeks I would take an old broom stick and open up the hole, put in a large plastic funnel and pour gasoline in the mound. I’d wait about 10 minutes to allow the gas and fumes to spread through the huge network of tunnels the ants build below ground. ......Then, I’d take a box of kitchen matches out there and toss lit matches into a couple of the holes.

There would be flames shooting out of mounds that I hadn’t even dosed! Did this throughout one Summer and most of the ants had moved on... or died. Amdro was useless.


29 posted on 06/26/2015 8:52:15 PM PDT by octex
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Reminds me of the genius several years ago with mice entering the walls of his house. He found their outdoor nest and set it afire, whereupon the burning mice ran into his house walls and burned down his house. The firemen got quite a kick out of his explanation.


33 posted on 06/27/2015 10:49:29 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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