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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 9,831 Likes: 3
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Joined: Dec 2003
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What would that be & where to get it? I’ve had several large mounds pop up the last couple days & would love to put a small dent in the population while they are active.
"When you've stared down the barrel of a shotgun in your own home, 3rd & 20 don't seem too bad"......Ken "Snake" Stabler
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 14,738 Likes: 64
Pope of Aldeer and Expert
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Joined: Jan 2003
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Boric acid. Cheap and good.
Support our country. Kill chickens.
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Posts: 19,233 Likes: 27
Old Mossy Horns
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Joined: Apr 2000
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All the good stuff they banned . Seems that stuff now just moves them around . Just be sure you read the directions some you wet some you don't some you put on the mound some you put around the mound .
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 15,088 Likes: 149
Old Mossy Horns
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Those pellets that smell like chicken litter works good. For something that isn't so stankey Bifen does the job
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Permethrin is what I used on fire ant hills. Same as I use on mosquitos and roaches. On a cold morning, they will be up close to the top of the hill looking for warmth. Just poke a hole in the top and when they come boiling out spray them down good. They will die and when their buddies come to remove them, they die too. I have done a bunch this way and the hill dies.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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I order Extinguish plus from Do Your Own pest controls website for mound control. Caution: Its strong smelling stuff https://www.domyown.com/extinguish-plus-fire-ant-bait-p-210.html
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson
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I've started using Bifen mostly because it can be used indoor also for normal home insect control at a lower dose. I bought a cheap HF sprayer and just keep it ready to go at all times. See a mound...spray a mound.
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I buy the cheap stuff at Walmart and spread around the house once a month. Seems to work good enough. When I find an ant hill I will pour permethrin in it I’ll poke a hole down in it ad far as I can and fill it up with martins and let it soak in real good. If I have any ants I don’t know about them.
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I use Bifen XTS and soak the mound with a sprayer. The fire ants come up and die instantly. Kills the whole mound and they don't move a few feet away and start again.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
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Surrender. White powder, stinks but works good.
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I pour gas in mine and light it on fire.
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Permethrin is what I used on fire ant hills. Same as I use on mosquitos and roaches. On a cold morning, they will be up close to the top of the hill looking for warmth. Just poke a hole in the top and when they come boiling out spray them down good. They will die and when their buddies come to remove them, they die too. I have done a bunch this way and the hill dies. This is the way to take care of the problem
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Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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Surrender. White powder, stinks but works good. That is actually the stuff I use. The extinguish is the broadcast bait and surrender is mound killer. They used to sell it and the surrender together and called it the Texas Two step. https://www.domyown.com/martins-surrender-fire-ant-killer-p-8910.html
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson
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I started doing this a number of years back and haven’t had a single fire-ant mound since.
In the early Spring I buy a couple of bags of whatever fire-ant killer granules that are on sale at Lowe’s and I broadcast spread (handheld spreader) them all over my yard 2/3-acre. They either die or move to the neighbor’s yard.
"The struggle you're in today, is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."
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x3. I put down 24 pallets of Emerald Zoysia in my yard mid October. Within 10 days there were ant mounds galore. I went and sprinkled some of that Ortho on all those mounds then 3 days later kicked all the mounds down. At that point I didnt see an ant and havent had a fresh mound pop up since.
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I’ve had good luck with Amdro for fire ants and surprisingly carpenter ants. Found a big line of carpenter ants coming out of a neighbor’s dying water oak, sprinkled some Amdro on the base of the tree and never saw any coming out of there again. They cut the tree down the next year and there weren’t any inside of it.
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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Grits used to work. No telling with these modern day ants.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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