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There's some stuff you get at the co-op around here that's called acephate. It does a good job on fire ant mounds.
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My pest control guy uses this. Get it online or at the farmers co-op. Broadcast in the yard and spot treat mounds. I tried EVERYTHING at Lowes and none of it worked. This stuff knocks the crap out of them. Talstar
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The active ingredient that you need to use: Fipronil. Read the label and use as directed will eliminate the entire colony.
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I believe Amdro Fire Ant Bait is the gold standard around here. Doesn't kill 'em by tomorrow but eventually poisons the whole colony. http://www.amdro.com/Product-ChooserDrought has done a number on 'em around here too, that and crazy ants. Birdwatcher +1
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I had them bad when I lived in Florida. Tried a bunch of things. The one that worked the best was when I moved to Oregon. It worked. Not one fire ant since.
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Here in Alvin I gave up trying on my own. I got a guy that comes every 12-16 months and does ~3.5 acres inside my fence.
Absolutely no commercial grade treatment worked long enough to bother.
He first sprays then comes back in 2 weeks and puts down a granular mix.
$2,400.00 a pop. No ants, no spiders, no 'skeeters, no snakes, no mice NADA.
Before using this guy the crazy ants took out over $5k in electronics in 3 months.
Wifey, a cancer survivor, got bit by fire ants over 75 times at once. That was a rough 2 weeks for her.
I stepped out of my truck last week at my lease Before i could get to the camper I was bitten over 20 times.
Propane brush burner and 5 gals of unleaded was my revenge.
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Red ants here are probably related?
One bite me once when I was waving a propane torch on um.
I dumped a jug of bleach down a mound, was all that was handy. The bleach had a kind of a reaction and some sort of smoke came up from their every tunnel. That was kind of cool!
Didn't kill um all, but was worth the jug of bleach.
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The ants secrete formic acid in their saliva. 100million ants, add bleach, reaction time.
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Get a shovel full of fireants from a different mound and dump it on the first.
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everclear, dump it down the hole in the mound and cover with a bowl or tub to let it soak and fume. I heard it works like gasoline, only not as bad on the soil. might be worth a try.
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Get a shovel full of fireants from a different mound and dump it on the first. Interesting idea. In Texas at least they've been forming "supercolonies" for at least 30 years now; basically a continuous carpet of fire ants with no clear delineation or hostility between colonies, new queens just setting up shop wherever after their dispersal/mating flight. Might be the same in Brazil too where they come from as there their particular niche is to rapidly recolonize areas after the frequent floods. If it doesn't flood again they get taken out by the competing species, predators and parasites they have down there. Birdwatcher
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Gas can contaminate the ground water, and is nowhere near as effective as a good bait If you don't kill the Queen, you haven't accomplished anything
One shot, one kill........ It saves a lot of ammo!
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Nuke 'em from space. The only way to be sure.
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I believe Amdro Fire Ant Bait is the gold standard around here. Doesn't kill 'em by tomorrow but eventually poisons the whole colony. http://www.amdro.com/Product-ChooserDrought has done a number on 'em around here too, that and crazy ants. Birdwatcher When I moved back to North Fl, the property we bought was over run with fire ant. Amdro killed them. Took a year, but they have not come back.
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Get a shovel full of fireants from a different mound and dump it on the first. This right here works and is very cheap. From my experience, find the mounds that are the farthest apart. One queen can have multiple mounds. The "worker ants" will go to war and fight to the bitter end, basically committing genocide. I didn't believe it at first, but it works. You can watch them killing each other above ground. Cool stuff.
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Amdro. Sprinkle around the circumference of the mound. Dead mound. It takes a couple of days, but as you see a mound pop up, repeat. I had about 10 mounds in the yard this year. All done and gone in a week.
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I've used several of the over the counter bait killers and they seem to work, but another mound will pop up and I don't want to continually be putting it out. We've got chickens and guineas as well and don't know what the baits do to them so I stopped.
I read a while back about using an electric fence charger to kill mounds. I've got an electric fence on 24/7/365 and test it every day. So started plugging my tester in to a mound when I'd feed for a couple of minutes everyday. Only did it for a week. That mound is now empty. Haven't tried it on any others but I guess that 9000 volts for a couple of minutes does something.
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Get a Queen into a shipping container so the rest of the colony follows her. Seal it up and drop it on the ragheads from ISIS. Serves 'em right.
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When I lived in fire ant country, the most effective thing seemed to have a neighborhood fire ant day. All the neighbors would treat their individual mounds with Andro or whatever and additionally spread some other kind of bait (don't recall what it was anymore) with a broadcast spreader throughout your property. This helps prevent them from migrating back and forth between yards. Seemed to work pretty well.
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