How do you get rid of fire ants without commercial chemicals?
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You can use Diatomaceous Earth. DE can be found in farm stores. I take a heavy rake and open the mound then through hand fulls of DE on the pile. Or a safer way is to heavily ring the mound with DE. The ants will crawl through it and take it into the nest. It takes about two weeks for the ants to be killed. If it rains, you will have to redo this.
Pour some gas in their nest hole. The fumes will penetrate the tunnels. Step back, toss a match. Poof, ants gone.
I found this solution too. I am sure they both work. Good luck. I had them in Tucson and nearly lost my finger with just a couple bites.
Wearing pants tucked into long socks for protection, take a shovel and quickly shovel the fire ant mound into a large bucket that has been sprinkled with baking soda, which keeps the antsfrom climbing out. Keep going until the whole nest has been shoveled out. Drown the ants in vinegar and water or with boiling water.Jan 27, 2017
Drown the bed with some type of soda, use the cheap kind. I know some who use it on their farms.
Step on them?