To: Ditter
I know it sounds crazy, but the Sears guy told me this. Make sure the ground is dry (moisture will make it expand). They grab a piece, take it to the queen as food, and it explodes inside her. Try it, a mound will be dead in less than a day. But they move!! So keep after them.
13 posted on
04/20/2002 6:00:08 PM PDT by
hawkk
To: hawkk
LOL Thats great,I'll try it. I have sugar ants in my kitchen, have any good remedies for them?
16 posted on
04/20/2002 6:09:56 PM PDT by
Ditter
To: hawkk
Ortho makes some poison especially made for fire ants that work s good.It has to be some of the nastiest smelling stuff there is.It stinks so bad,it can gag a maggot.I battle them constantly in my yard ,speaking of building a tall mound,they built a nesy under the base of a lamp post I have in the middle of my patio.When I picked it up,there was sand that they dug up from the paving bricks all the way up the lamp post base.they then swarmed out all over the place.I used some of that Ortho and that did them in the next day.There was a thick ring of dead ants underneath.
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