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No one should be pouring gasoline onto the ground for any reason, be it ants or yellow jackets. Giving that type of advice is about as irresponsible as it gets.
For all those who had success with Amdro, how many applications did it take? I have hills that I have located in my yard. one appears small the other might be very large under ground. This is my first time trying to deal with fire ants, thank you for you help.
For all those who had success with Amdro, how many applications did it take? I have hills that I have located in my yard. one appears small the other might be very large under ground. This is my first time trying to deal with fire ants, thank you for you help.
It always worked for us , but we had to be patient as ed_RDNC mentioned...
A week later it was ghost town in the colony !!
Double check the pet exposure recommendations..Some baits are attractive to pets & deadly.
When I first bought my house in a fairly new development four years ago I had a barrage of red ants coming through my sliding glass door frame. They never attacked me, nor did they seem to be seeking out food. Most of the ones that I didn't kill ending up dying from not finding their way out. Every year the situation improves as the ants survive by moving further away from me, my neighbors and the landscapers, all of whom are constantly undermining their efforts.
For all those who had success with Amdro, how many applications did it take? ...
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Originally Posted by kelly237
It always worked for us , but we had to be patient as ed_RDNC mentioned...
A week later it was ghost town in the colony !!
Double check the pet exposure recommendations..Some baits are attractive to pets & deadly.
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Originally Posted by Sal_M
Thank you, I did not realize it could take that many days.
You have to recognize that Amdro is a bait killer, not contact killer.
Killing the workers just 'annoys' the queen.
Getting the workers to carry the poisoned food to the queen, kills the queen but NOT the rest of the workers. They have to die off naturally over several weeks.
In my many battles, I think I can generalize by saying, (once I learned to put it gently down off-center):
it was all about size:
The bigger hills died off from an application about 2/3s of the time, with the rest making a daughter hill about 1/4 as big about three-four feet away.
I think size related not to the number of workers you'd kill but rather the chances the food-bait would make it to the queen, plus how long it would take for the hill to be noticeably dead after the queen died.
Same as any other places. They just need dirt to dig into. The clear cutting and building thing isn't going to get rid of fire ants.
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