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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!!!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

comeback wrote: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.

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.

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.

Dry grits or corn meal.

SkippyJ wrote:Dry grits or corn meal.

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

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.

marionfd708 wrote: 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?

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

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