FIRE ANTS!!!!

[timber-hunter]

Has anyone else noticed the fireants are worse this year than any other year of recent memory.

Heck they won't establish in a pine plantation so they come and establish in my bermuda grass yard. I am sick and tired of them!!!

[regishay]

Cheap way to get rid of them is to use powder laudry detergent, bout 2 cups or so to a big mound, cleans em right out.

[gadwall2]

A bunch of em and they just looking for quail chicks to munch on. I have never heard about the laundry detergent deal.

[comeback]

Hmmmm,wonder it the hot soapy water trick would work on them.......maybe stir em up first?

[Dog's Eye]

I have them around my house. Haven't tried soap, but nearly everything else. Permitherin (sp?) the active in bengal ant and roach will hammer them dead! spray a ring around the mound then kick it open and fog a couple of holes.... wait twenty minutes.... they will pill up outside dead, very satisfying thing to see. I don't know if you can buy the stuff in liquid form, but if you can it should work just as well.

[CLS Posse]

Permethrin can be found at your local farm supply ( ag chemical ) retailer.
Used to be the brand name Pounce but now it is off patent and sold under a bunch of different names.

[regishay]

Hmmmm,wonder it the hot soapy water trick would work on them.......maybe stir em up first?

I have just used regular dry laudry detergent, usually open the mound up and sprinkel about a cup or two. When they rebuild they take the soap into the mound and rebuild. I guess when the dew hits it over the next couple of days it causes gases to form, cause the pile will be dead after 3 days or so. Any cheap laudry detergent should work.

[Deep Woods]

Best thing I have found for them is Acephate (sp?) powder. It is available at most farm supply places. It kills them and they don't come back or move over, it is a little pricey...like $20 for a small can but it last a good while. I do warn that it has a really nasty odor and is very, very, very toxic to fish.

[skuna]

Railroad flare and a broom handle.

Drive the broom handle down into the center of the mound and drop the lit flare down the hole and cook them SOB's.

[SkippyJ]

Dry grits or corn meal.

[RedEyed Duck]

Dry grits or corn meal.

Do you have an ant farm or are you trying to get rid of em' Skippy?

[marionfd708]

i like a piece of conduit and gas.
we had some sod brought up from ms. that had fire ants. guess who found them(my wife). i had a good time doctoring those stings.

[RedEyed Duck]

i had a good time doctoring those stings.

Probably shouldn't but I gotta ask, what the heck was your wife doing sitting on that ant mound?

[Don Miller]

Drink a 5th of Old Charter and piss on the mound. It works every time.

[marionfd708]

she was working in the flower bed and did not notice the hill(kinda small) she planted her foot in.