how do you get rid of fire ants (for sale, home)

[SunnyKayak]

Ok I guess it is safe for me to mention what I use to do judging by responses above lol.

We didnt use gas however we did use charcoal lighter fluid since it has that nozzle that you can pour directly down the hole of the mound.

Burn Baby Burn!

[brokenrecord]

Lord! Have mercy...if I poured gasoline down the hole in the mound, I am liable to blow my home off the property. We must have at least 300 mounds on 1 1/2 acres. I am almost assured that they have tunneled under our home. I have used every fire ant killer available at Lowe's and Walmart. We spent hundreds of dollars and still we have fire ants. We no longer have use of our yard. If there are any CHEAP ways to go forward,please advise. Moving is not an option.

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

http://www.uaex.edu/other_areas/publ...f/fsa-7036.pdf

Describes a two step process.

Fire ants often come in on commercial landscaping material such as sod.

I've heard good things about Bayer Advanced "Power Force."

[simetime]

I seen this on television:
University of Texas Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) Phorid fly ...

[lovebrentwood]

I've read cornmeal will do it. They eat it and it expands or something and kills them after a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIFY3s0tRYE

[124c41]

I have used a soluble powder called Demon that is good for a variety of insects, and does a number on fire ants.

[JQ Public]

I get great satisfaction out of pouring boiling water down the fire ant hole.

[gette77]

I used borax mixed with powdered sugar. I have had great success on my 6 spots last yr. Hopefully it will still work this yr if I see any more!

[Vorpal]

Bengal UltraDust 2X works good. You just kick the mound and when they all run out, just sprinkle the dust over the top of the mound. They'll be dead by the next day.

[Ed_RDNC]

I did battle with those hated critters over a period of many years when I had my house in Atlanta. By trial and failure I settled on Amdro, the yellow lumpy powder you spread beside (not on top!) of the mound.

Then, the really really hard part. You have to WAIT 2-3 weeks. Gas and other toxic poisons are good at killing the workers, but if you don't kill the queen, you just trim down the nest and they re-populate quite fast. Amdro is a bait-poison that will eventually be given to the queen, who eats and dies. Then the rest of the nest dies off.

One more thing: once they move in an area, you will find new nests from now on, unless you kill ALL the nests, and that's impossible, you and your neighbors will always miss one or two.