2006-09-21 08:54:07 · 12 answers · asked by cleopatra 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
you can go the chemical route or you can go the environmentally safe route. chemical route is poisons bought at your local lawn and garden store. Safe route is to take a shovel of one ant hill, and mix it into another.. the ants are territorial and will protect thier queen at all costs. They will kill eachother that way. Or , get instant grits, leave them uncooked and dry, sprinkle them on the hill. The ants will eat the grits and swell up and die.
2006-09-21 09:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the type of ants that this will work..the little or big black ants are easy to fool and make move,,all you have to do is place something sweet like a piece or two of hard candy about 20-30 feet away then after a week move it little farther,,the colony will move to where the sweetest food source is,,also the Diazanin poison that comes in the red bag does very well(make sure NO children go play in the yard for 2-4 days)and helps to keep them under control..
2006-09-21 09:34:38 · answer #2 · answered by littledevil018147 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, dang. I really wish I had an answer for this one. I live in Texas and have been battling ants. In particular, fire ants. It's been on-going for about 5 years now & I can't seem to get rid of them. I've tried sprays, crystals, gasoline, bleach.....contained fires.....and nothing seems to help. The ants just relocate their mounds by several feet in any given direction.
2006-09-21 09:03:37 · answer #3 · answered by Shadow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a pair tsps of boric acid (may well be offered at a drug keep) and combine it with some thing candy (ants love ice cream). The ants will consume this and regurgitate it to the queen and it will reason her to swell up and die. lifeless queen= lifeless ant colony. it incredibly works super in case you have ants interior the domicile. i attempted each thing to do away with them and purely at some point after the boric acid, not greater ants. the better area is it purely expenditures some cents to do away with them. It would not take plenty, so do not positioned to plenty boric acid in or the ants won't like the flavor and not consume it.
2016-12-18 14:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I did, but they eventually find another spot. I poured bleach or bleach spray on the hill, maybe they moved South, but didn't see any more anty activity in those hills. You can also get ant spray, I don't like using pesticides unless I have to, because I have pet's.
2006-09-21 09:42:58 · answer #5 · answered by bsbmo33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All good answers, but remember, they dig tunnels that aerate your yard. Most poisons only move them around anyway. Diazinon seems to work best. If they aren't fire ants or aren't really bothering you do the sugar or grit thing and make them work for you. Mixing beds works real good too.
2006-09-21 10:24:31 · answer #6 · answered by surftele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the red ant killer granules at the store. It works every time.
2006-09-21 08:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by Sam468 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pour grits downthe ants mound ant when the ant eat the grits they will swell up and die
2006-09-21 09:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by anthony c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have personally sucessfully used grits ... ants love em...eat em... and when they drink some water...pop goes the anthill...
its a good idea if u have a beagle that sticks her nose into everything... last thing i need is my dog snortin amdro...
2006-09-21 10:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by kayakakas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diazinon. I don't know if that's how you spell it but you can get it from a garden supply. It kills fire ants.
2006-09-21 08:57:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋