I recently moved into a new house and ants are a problem, big ants, not the little sugar ants. I have put out little killer traps (the kind they eat and take into their 'house') But I have a huge anthill, appx 2 feet tall. It's in a bunch of brush, so burning it is not an option. Any ideas?
2006-09-02 05:41:03 · 17 answers · asked by Tabs 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Drench mounds with orange oil, molasses, and compost tea mixture.
Save your soil & groundwater; Go Organic
2006-09-02 07:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by rmnative111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with ants is that they'll move colonies... my fiance once shot an anthill with his shotgun... made a crater of it, but I have a feeling that they'll be back. The baits don't work and the some of the sprays I've seen won't get deep enough to kill the queen or the larva (and she doesn't starve to death somehow!) ...Just be careful what chemicals (if any) you use, because they can eventually get into ground water and do some damage to plants and/or animals (including people).
2006-09-02 05:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have 2 options, 1. Steal the ants step ladder they use to get into the ant hill. 2. Buy some AMDRO at a local Home Depot. And no more ants.
2006-09-02 05:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An effective cheap, non-poisonous way, is if it is free of rain in your area: pour some dry cream of wheat or malt-o-meal on the mound to cover it. The ants will carry it back to feed the queen and eat some themselves. It will then expand as it is digested causing them to pop open & die. Seriously, we used this all the time growing up, a wise elderly neighbor shared this secret with us! :) Good luck!
2006-09-02 05:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless the ants are coming into your house, leave them alone.
Too often, us humans exert our power on nature, just because it's there.Put a steady food source in the opposite direction from your house, and leave a trail up to the ant hill. A loaf of bread a week should satisfy them, and if you soak it in sugar water they'll be even more inclined to go to it instead of into your home.
Think of it as an open-air ant farm.
2006-09-02 05:52:00 · answer #5 · answered by hott.dawg™ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
*Put gasoline into a large sprinkler can. (keep the gas can with you, you'll need more).
*Sprinkle lots of gas around the base of hill. Once the ants smell this, they will try to run, but they won't cross over the gas.
*Use the handle of a rake or shovel, and poke many holes into the hill.
*Drench the hill
*Tarp it, to avoid evaporation
*Uncover in two days, they will all be dead.
2006-09-02 08:55:52 · answer #6 · answered by Excel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,,,, 1st call up Jimmy Carter and the EPA,,,, they stopped the only thing that was killing Fire Ants call Myrex ,,, and it was Free.... The makers of AMDRO had a big hand in it.......also....
Go to Wal-Mart,, they have a fire ant bate that comes in a orange-red bag,,,, just use it,,,, it works pretty good...
good luck
2006-09-02 05:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what to tell you about getting rid of them, but I do know that if you don't use something to kill them, they will just abandon the one anthill and make another one or possible more than one elsewhere in your yard.
2006-09-02 05:49:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had the same prob when we moved and we took a pressure washer full of bleach water to the hill and they haven't been back since.
2006-09-02 08:16:42 · answer #9 · answered by barbiechick1012000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are fireants, get a good killer at any Wal*Mart in the garden shop. Also, you can pour gasoline, diesel or kerosene in the hole, but you don't have to burn. They will leave on their own.
2006-09-02 05:50:23 · answer #10 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋