Fire ants??

[nascarnancy]

Originally Posted by cruisekat

We have used every possible item and treatment we could find...all with the same results. A few days they are gone, at best, then new mounds pop up all over again, just in new spots. Our patio is crawling with them, we spray it and it keeps them away until it rains, then they're all back again once the pesticide gets washed away. It gets very expensive! And because it never gets too cold, they are a problem all year long.

I know when we had just regular red ant hills in our front yard I read a helpful hint book my mom had laying around the house and it said to poor boiling water down the ant hill. So, that's exactly what I did, do it a few times and be very careful not to burn yourself. It will temporarely kill the grass but I'll tell ya, it worked.

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One thing on the pouring gasoline on the ant mounds.
In searching for that perfect house I have found many have, wells and septic systems. I would be careful if you have a well for your water that you don’t contaminate your water with gasoline. Just an FYI.

[anonymous]

here's something I found on Hydramethylnon (Amdro).

"Hydramethylnon controls target insects with a single feeding. It is effective in the control of roaches and ants because both insects serve as carriers of the active ingredient to harborages and colonies.
Ants carry hydramethylnon bait back to the colony where the larvae digest the solid bait and regurgitate it as a liquid to feed the queen(s) and the rest of the colony.
The delayed-action of hydramethylnon works well with this behavior because it allows foraging workers to return to the colony with the bait before they are killed."

It had a nice little segment in the middle about how roaches eat their own excrement and carcasses, and how one infected roach could kill 50 other roaches. But I thought I'd spare y'all the nitty gritty details of that.