2007-03-23 20:36:54 · 10 answers · asked by N D 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
If your low on cash or sensitive to chemicals, I've had pretty good luck pouring a pot or two of boiling water into fire ant mounds.
2007-03-24 01:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by rodriggs127 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some Amdro. It's a bait that fire ants eat, then it kills them. It looks similar to a coarse ground corn meal. Just sprinkle it around the mounds. The ants will start eating in minutes. Keep the cat in the house while you're putting it out and for an hour or two after. The ants will start to die off within a couple of days. Keep the Amdro on hand and treat each new mound as you find them. I used to be an exterminator in Texas. Amdro was the best fire ant product I ever found. I used it in my yard to keep the ants off my kids.
2007-03-24 00:56:43 · answer #2 · answered by bugs280 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would need to temporarily remove your cat from the place that has a fire ant infestation. If you can locate the fire ant hill where they are coming from what I would suggest doing would be to call an exterminator and then let them take care of the ants. If you can't do that then perhaps a bottle of bleach poured on the hill. Bleach is pretty good at whitening things but it's also pretty good at killing things.
2007-03-23 20:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by leonard_leroy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fire ants can do more harm to your cat that treatment to kill the ants. I mix strong mixture of Malathion 50 and water and pour on nest and put like a milk crate over the nest for a few days. It can be sprayed over the lawn, just make sure your cat does not go into the sprayed area for several days.
2007-03-23 20:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Judy W 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ants become a nuisance when they enter homes. Instead of spending money on costly pest control, you can get rid of ants by removing the food source and using soap water.
2007-03-24 18:40:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How great of you 2 B kitty aware!!!! I had a horrible ant problem and I would get rid of them in one spot and a few day's later there they were again a few feet away from the last spot, soooooo.......I took charcoal lighter fluid and poured a nice amount down there "ant hole" waited a few minute's and then I put a lit match in the hole!! I know it sound's drastic but ever since then I haven't seen any ant's!!! good luck
2007-03-23 21:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by janjangirl 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bleach or bleach water. kills the ants and the cat won't go near it for the smell alone.
use to keep the ants out of my food joint when I was younger by pouring bleach across the back door thresh hold. no bug will cross a line of bleach.
2007-03-23 20:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Corn meal.
Sprinkle corn meal all around the mound. When the ants come up to take the corn meal, it explodes inside of them, killing them. I got this tip from a book, called Trowel and Error, by Sharon Lovejoy. I have tried this, and it does work!
2007-03-23 20:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pour Boiling Hot Water down the hole, and I have also used Gasoline which kills them also but it will also kill the grass. Since there is No grass under your Deck, Gasoline would work real well.
2007-03-24 01:56:42 · answer #9 · answered by donna_honeycutt47 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rent aardvark from local zoo.
2007-03-23 20:39:24 · answer #10 · answered by tahunajcw 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋