I have a fire ant pile around the post of my mailbox. My husband loves to pour gasoline in a pile and light it. I don't think that will work too well here. Any suggestions?
2006-11-12 17:21:21 · 14 answers · asked by bethybug 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Whatever you do, don't try the one that mentioned Coke... lol All that will do is draw more ants there because of the sugar.
I do know of a natural way you could try. You boil the peel of an orange in two cups of water, let it steep 24 hours, strain & pour it into a glass spray bottle, and add a few drops of castile soap. When you're ready to use it, just shake it really good and spray. If you're looking for something you can buy to kill the ants with, the best fire ant killer I can think of is called "Sevin." Hope this helps. =)
2006-11-12 17:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Punky Brewster 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 05:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by rochart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn this as a child in Texas and I still use it as a granny in Alabama. Take a stick and make a hole at the top of the mound. Pour half a box of baking soda in the hole . Then pour vinegar in the opening. it boils the mound and kills the queen ext.. but you must do this to all the mounds . If you have a mound of that size then you must have them through out the yard. It works. Its safe and its cheap. Just a home remedy that has been around even before my time
2006-11-12 21:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by lovie12346 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fire ants are probably the most difficult to eliminate totally because they can reinvade from neighboring properties. Individual fire ant mounds should be treated using a fire ant drench followed with a suitable bait product labeled for fire ants. The yard can then be treated with fire ant bait to help control unseen mounds and colonies foraging from neighboring properties. Regular fire ant treatment is necessary to keep ants to a minimum.
2006-11-12 17:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by Lady_Lavinia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your near by CO-OP and ask them. I believe improvements have been made on the fire ants poison.
I did the same as your husband but the ant hills wasn't around my mailbox. I came close to burning my house down!!!!
2006-11-12 17:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by 100yroldtree 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a two liter bottle of Coke and pour it on them. Repeast again a few hours later or the next day. Not sure why this works but it does!
2006-11-12 17:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by Jen626 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have more than one fire ant hill, take a shovel full of ant hill 1 and dump it on ant hill 2, take a second shovel from ant hill 2 and dump it on ant hill 1.
2006-11-13 01:01:16 · answer #7 · answered by Richard Z 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just can't kill creatures... I would probably repeat this - put sugar in a jar, wait for a while, capture them, and release in wild.
Every time I find wasps or bumble bees in my house, I cover them with a glass jar against the wall and slide a cardboard in between the jar and the wall and release them bugs outside.
You probably want to get rid of them before they start eating your mailbox, right? Sorry. Just ignore me.
2006-11-12 17:41:29 · answer #8 · answered by fortuna0820 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Water?
2006-11-12 17:23:14 · answer #9 · answered by crash 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fight fire with fire. I don't recommend turning the other cheek. You wont' be able to sit for a week!
2006-11-12 17:23:32 · answer #10 · answered by OU812 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋