Get thee down to Lowe's, Home Depot or your local hardware store and get
some Amdro fire ant killer.
<http://www.lowes.com/pd_94606-1321-1357600416___?productId=4573846&pl=1&Ntt=amdro+fire+ant>
I've used the stuff for 15 years. It works but takes a week or more.
Sprinkle the granules liberally on and around the mound. If they are
fire ants they will come rushing out of the mound in droves to attack
the attacking granules... only to find that it's good tasting food. In
a matter of hours the granules will disappear into the mound and
ultimately be fed to the queen. The poison is deliberately slow acting.
But, When she goes, so do the rest of them.
There is a Wiki article on Amdro which I think must have been written by
a competitor. It says it gets ruined by rain and is then totally
ineffective. Ha, ha. That can only happen if you apply it in the rain.
The ants love it so much they'll have it all inside the mound in
hours. Try it, you'll like it. But do be patient. It's extremely
effective but also slow to take effect.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/9/2015 3:01 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
I just noticed a fresh mound at my back property line. I guess I better
give it another try.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 10/9/2015 1:58 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
They can only be managed, Jim, not eliminated. I regularly patrol
my lawn
and place poison bait on the nascent mounds. Helps if the neighbors do
the
same as it takes longer for them to move back in. Clemson University has
been experimenting with a South American fly that hunts them and they are
effective, but officials are rightly reluctant to introduce another
non-native species. That plan often backfires.
Charlie
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
As you know, Charlie, hardly anything can kill them. Commercial ant
poison doesn't seem to bother them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 10/9/2015 1:43 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
One of the odd things to come out of this weather event. Around
here we
have a particularly nasty species of ant called Fire Ants. They were
introduced into Texas from South America back in the 1940's and over
time
have spread all over the southeast. They are very aggressive and have a
nasty bite that forms a pustule that is slow to heal. Any hope that
this
weather event would drown these suckers was dashed when someone saw
this:
http://abc7.com/weather/ants-form-floating-island-to-combat-flooding-in-south-carolina/1021709/
Charlie
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