Pour a little gasoline on the mound, wait a minute or so for the fumes to spread through the tunnels, then toss a match. You get a satisfying poof and many dead ants, along with a circle of dead grass that grows back in a few months.
Let the ant colony know a dem was just elected to the area and he’s going to be raising the rent on mounds.
This past Winter was the best time to be proactive.
Live stock will have to be removed from the treated area for a year.
IMPORT ARMADILLOS.
Aldrin! banded now.
I use Amdro fire ant bait.
It takes a while but always works.
The workers give the poisoned bait to the queen, and then when she eats it and dies, bye bye ants.
Once the weather dries out and stops raining for a while, I’ll circle the house thirty feet out in a band of bait.
Largest Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Cast So Far (Cast #072)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xvsxarw-J0
Fire ants were MacGyver’s toughest adversary, but he whooped them, in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmpS5ebn9s
I take a can of Bengal, put the red straw in the mound, give it 2-3 sprays and poof. Dead ant hill.
I’ve used gasoline and bug spray. A neighbor used a shop vac and extension cord to get rid of ground hornets. He would sneak up in the night or morning and put the tube right by the hole in the ground, wait until daylight when they were flying in and out, and plug it in. He put a rag soaked in wasp killer in the chamber.
FReegards
Sprinkle dry Cream of Wheat on the mound. They take it into the mound and feed it to the queen and she explodes when it reacts with moisture.
Casting a Fire Ant Mound With Molten Aluminum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xvsxarw-J0
And then you sell the cast as abstract artwork...
Until The “Department of Homeland Security came about and got all draconian and paranoid about letting us peasants have useful stuff, there was a product called “Durham’s Red Ant Balls” that was cheap and worked great. They were Sodium or Potassium Cyanide, depending on which was cheapest when they were buying the raw materials for any given production run..
And rather than killing your grass... they were about the best fertilizer I ever saw: Everywhere I used them, within a couple of weeks, the grass was lush and grew about three times as fast as the stuff a little further away. (Although I’m not sure I’d want my cattle, sheep, goats etc. grazing on it.)
Years ago I cleared my central Florida house lot of FA using a product called “Fire Ant Extinguisher”. An aerosol can with a long plastic straw, you ran the straw down until it stopped, withdrew an inch, and discharged for a few seconds.
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