FIRE ANTS

Blkvoodoo

Blkvoodoo

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ARGH ! my foot is on fire. wife parked the car in the front yard in front of the door to unload groceries while it was raining, I just went out to move it, had to move a case of water out of the back seat, apparently when I did this I stepped in a fire ant nest. ( it wasn't there when I mowed the other day ! )

lil bastards are gonna die tomorrow !

any suggestions short of fire ? ( too close to the house )
 
Mix 1 cup blue Dawn dish soap in 3 gallons of water -- stir, don't make suds. Dump over mound. No more fire ants. I do the first ones that pop up in my and my side of my neighbors' yards, don't have any all summer.
 
Amdro powder bait. Comes in about 1/2 gallon jug, maybe other sizes. We used to have a ton of mounds around our house, and we put this on a couple of them. I walked down the sidewalk a couple days later, and noticed this strange dust on the sidewalk. Turns out it was ant bodies, literally by the thousands. The few surviving ants were carrying the dead bodies out of the mounds. That killed em off pretty well, and then I put out a 40lb bag of something with the yard spreader, and that ran em off for the next two years.
 
CLRracer said:
You dont want your house to match the others in your neighborhood???

Duane
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that would be NO !

If you and your friends want to come by for a drink or something thats one thing, but they can keep the big red truck back at the house, thanks all the same !
 
I've had several allergic reactions from Fireant bites. The last time about a dozen very tiny, flea sized ones got on my calves south of Benson. I took Bynadril twice that afternoon and evening but when I awoke the next day my upper lip looked like a bagel and I could'nt shut my mouth for the swelling. I also had tightining in my chest and went to the ER where they gave me some meds including a steriod injection? for a week after my whole body itched, scalp, skin and the most unpleasant, the soles of my feet and palms of my hands!! GET THE BASTARDS
 
A little info on Fire Ants. If you attack the colony (hill) in any way the colony will separate. So if you step on it, you will soon have more ant hills, same with mowing. When trying to kill a colony, do not put most baits on top of the mound, put it around the edges so the workers take the food into the mound and feed it to the queen and poison the whole crowd.
If you use a drench type poison start by pouring about a foot out from the mound and work your way in. Go as far as to dig into or create a hole into the center of the mound so that the solution gets deep into it, but only after you have soaked the perimeter. 5 gallons is usually good for a mound.
I've posted some sure fire but expensive methods on here before but no one seems to pay attn.
Whatever method you use, READ THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY and then follow them!
 
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