Help Me Kill These ANTS!

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I've got a mound of ants that are Red in front and Dark in the back, about medium size. The mound is about 2' in Diameter.

I have put down:

Triazicide granules (for Ants)

Sevin in a hose end sprayer (for Ants)

Ortho Home Defense (for Ants)

Black Flag Scorpion/Ant/Wasp/Hornet Killer (because I was ticked off).

They still crawl around !!!

What else should I use...?
 
Originally Posted By: Dantheman
Charcoal lighter . KILL 'EM WITH FIRE !!!!


After they bite you, that's exactly what you want to do.
 
I did pick up a couple mulch pieces and one bit me - ouch!

Lighter fluid sounds good, but it is in a flower garden with lots of red bark as mulch...
 
you have already tried what I would normally use. you could try an insecticide with permethrin sprayed directly on them and their mound. it is a common flea/tick insecticide but it is toxic to cats.

another trick I have heard of is to pour honey around their mound/hole and let it sit for awhile to attract them. then pour lighter fluid down the hole, let it soak for a minute or two then LIGHT THEM UP!
 
Just get some Amdro, take it from a fire ant expert. I was attacked by a many of those darn things once, so I feel your pain. Amdro takes care of them and it's not poisonous to you or your pets, etc.

They feed it to the queen, she croaks, they all croak.

I just noticed you live in MN.....Fire ants in MN?
 
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I use Amdro. It's working slowly.

On a side note; we didn't have fire ants 25 years ago, when i was a yard monkey. Are fire ants a recent illegal immigrant to the USA?
 
Originally Posted By: digitalSniperX1
Just get some Amdro, take it from a fire ant expert. I was attacked by a many of those darn things once, so I feel your pain. Amdro takes care of them and it's not poisonous to you or your pets, etc.

They feed it to the queen, she croaks, they all croak.

I just noticed you live in MN.....Fire ants in MN?


Last year, there was a MONSTER mound under a Black Hills Spruce, could not believe it, slaughtered 'em, but some musta got away, because this one is 30' away from the one last year.....
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I use 2.5% Permetherin in a hose end sprayer to keep away mosquitoes, ants, etc, did not use that yet since it is gonna rain for the next day or so...

Are those Fire Ants (Medium, Red in front, Black in back) and mound 2-4' diameter...??????
 
Buy a bag of Spleda®. Pour some out. See if they start carting it off. If they do, pour out the whole bag. They'll starve to death in chomping away large.
 
Bayer makes a fire ant killer. It is in a blue bottle about 10 in tall and 3-4 in in diameter. Should run you around $8-$10 at China Mart. This is a fine white powder, almost like powdered sugar. Kill is not instant but is very fast. You can watch those [censored] die if you want. It is slow enough to be taken back into the mound and since it's so fine, it sticks to everything. Does not seem to work on pyramid ants. Those are the bright orange little [censored] that run 900 miles an hour with a mound every 2 ft.


For those of you unfamiliar, fire ants go DEEP underground. That mound you see up top ain't nothing compared to what's below. Most of that stuff you put down has to be watered in. Why? To get the poison underground. Baits are different. I put down "Over and Out" or some other season long preventor. Seems to work pretty good. Very few mounds this year to date. Here in SC, a fire ant mound left untreated will very quickly take over a yard. I stepped in a trail of them one night while taking out the trash. I was barefoot and they were in my driveway. I burned them out with a propane torch and followed the rest. I poured boiling water over the rest of em. Can't stand em.
 
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I'll try some of those things if I can get it here in Mn.

I do not think we have fire ants here!! Did I describe a fire ant...?????

If so, I must notify someone here, we are not suppose to have them...
 
Try Terro Ant Bait Drops

We have a bad carpenter ant problem, I've tried just about everything.

I just used it the other night on my carpenter ant problem and it worked like a charm. It's about $3 for the bottle at Ace Hardware or Home Depot. In conjunction, I also put down instant grits. It's more of a home remedy I read about, essentially being taken back to the queen as food then expanding in her tummy.
 
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Buy a bag of Spleda®. Pour some out. See if they start carting it off. If they do, pour out the whole bag. They'll starve to death in chomping away large.



Gary, is that Splenda as the sweetner or Spleda??
 
Originally Posted By: 2002 Maxima SE
Try Terro Ant Bait Drops

We have a bad carpenter ant problem, I've tried just about everything.

I just used it the other night on my carpenter ant problem and it worked like a charm. It's about $3 for the bottle at Ace Hardware or Home Depot. In conjunction, I also put down instant grits. It's more of a home remedy I read about, essentially being taken back to the queen as food then expanding in her tummy.


That's right, forgot about that, it's the clear liquid Borax inthe small bottle.
 
Originally Posted By: tpitcher
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Buy a bag of Spleda®. Pour some out. See if they start carting it off. If they do, pour out the whole bag. They'll starve to death in chomping away large.



Gary, is that Splenda as the sweetner or Spleda??


Yes ..edit time and typo. Splenda. I never tried it out ..but I wanted to. I wonder if they would eat themselves into starvation. Then again, for all I know they can metabolize Splenda ..while we cannot.
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Get some grits and springle around the mound. I once had to use instant grits because I was so far North that grits where not available any way besidesw instant. It works they eat it and it ballons up inside them. They can not release the pressure so it kills them. Like a bad case of gas with your but glued shut!
 
Many of the granules actually are coated with permethrin. Good stuff. I have a flower bed that I saturated with liquid Sevin several times in the spring. The granules cleared it right up, though.

Hey, remember this, though, fire ants eat ticks, roach eggs, and flea larvae... I don't mind a mound if it's not in a nusance location....
 
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