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This has worked for me about 50% of the time, on fire ants...
Take a water hose, turn it on full blast, and start washing out the nest. Keep working the hose into the ground while watching for the queen to 'wash up'. The queen will be a lot bigger with a white abdomen. Kill her and the rest of the nest will die/leave in about a day.
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Id have soaked them in ajax dish soap to cut their surface oil and drown them. Ive seen too many balls of them floating in lakes and rivers after a rise.
PS, Ajax is one third the price of fragrance filled Dawn.
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We've used icing sugar mixed with borax. Sprinkle it on top of the colony. I've heard that cornmeal works too. Something about it swelling when they eat it, which kills them. Never tried it though.
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How about a nice, hot, day or two long,campfire?
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Go to your local co-op and get some acephate, it's a white powder ant killer that smells horrible. Treat the mound with that and keep the kids and dogs away for a couple of days, then it'll be fine to let them back there. You can screw around with home remedies till the cows come home or get something that'll actually work. I'd rather just use something that works and get it fixed, then the kids and dogs can play in peace. http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/24d-captan/acephate-ext.html
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Watch to see their most active period, then a good dose of Amdro right around the hole. They pack down, and it's gone in thirty minutes....no more ants. Don't make mountain out of an ant hill, simple, fast, safe if that kind of thing worries you?
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I don't know how well it would work outside but a 50/50 mix of icing sugar and baking soda got rid of the ants in my house.
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Hard headed? PS, Borax mixed with sugar and cornmeal. We've used icing sugar mixed with borax. Sprinkle it on top of the colony. I've heard that cornmeal works too. Something about it swelling when they eat it, which kills them. Never tried it though.
SS I've used Borax around the house for ants and it works every time. Just need to figure out if they are after "sugar" or "fat/protein". Borax with sugar, or borax with peanut butter has always worked. It takes a few days, but the ants take it back to the nest where they all eat it. Slow acting is actually a good thing here.
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This should work and the kids will enjoy the heck out of it.
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Well, right after I set-up our kids new swing-set, we notice a decently large ant nest right close to the swing-set. I want to get rid of them without any chemical treatment that would cause me to not allow my kids and pups out there. I read very hot water will do it, we tried that but the nest must be too deep. I've read of mixtures with Borax that are said to work, but haven't tried that yet...Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Water and Borax are chemicals. Put ant stakes out so that the ants will carry the poison back to the nest and kill of the whole nest.
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Supplies Needed
1/2 cup of sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons Borax (find Borax on Amazon with free shipping here!) 1 1/2 cups warm water Cotton balls or paper towel
Instructions
1. Mix the Borax and sugar together until well combined.
2. Add the mixture to your warm water and mix constantly until the powder has been completely dissolved.
3. Seal the mixture in a jar or container for future use, and use only what you need in the next steps (and save the rest). It is important that you clearly label the jar, as it will just look like water. Do not leave this where children can get to it. (Because this is such an easy solution to make, however, I only kept what I made until after the ants had been gone for a week or more.)
4. Fill some jar lids, milk caps, or other shallow containers with cotton balls or a wad of paper towel.
5. Add the sugar-Borax solution to the prepared lids making sure to soak the cotton balls (or paper towel).
6. Wait. It may take the ants a while to find the solution. But, once they do, let them feast (and take the solution back to their home).
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Am I the only one here who has ever used Amdro??? Maybe yall's ants are just pickier than mine. Sprinkle a few teaspoonfuls on the mound, wait a couple days, and they take it to the queen. Problem solved. I used to sprinkle it around the perimeter of the house,too. Ants seem to do pretty good at finding it and taking it to nearby holes/mounds.
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Drink a quart of beer and pizz on 'em!!
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Have been told Simple Green works to control sugar ants.
Going to give it a try. Got them all over my kitchen counters.
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This is a timely thread - yesterday I found a fairly large fire ant nest/pile on our place and was told by all of the visiting relatives that I need to do something about it.
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Fipronil and be done. All these stupid home remedies are nothing more than feel good hippy bullschidt. None will work and by the time you're on the third one you've created a toxic waste dump of household cleaners that are worse for your kids health than just using a good registered product in the first place. Call in a pro if you don't want to do the application.
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Just dig all the way back in the old shed and find that bag of chlordane powder.
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I have had good results with vinegar. Dumped about a half-gallon on an anthill then on the following day scattered it a bit and dumped on another half-gallon. The ants did not return.
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