How to get rid of fire ants?

Hi Rebecca, water well or wait for a good rain. Then get the cheapest corn meal at the grocery store you can find. Sprinkle around the mounds well, and about 3 feet around them. The meal cannot be digest by the ants. Keep your lawn well watered going forward and they won't come back. Good luck.

Try grits. Cheap and easy. They eat them. Drink water and swell up and die.

Rebecca, you must spread anything you use over ENTRE area, not just around existing mounds, the systems are sometimrs connected underground even tho different queens control their individual empires. The cornmeal solution may be one of the best.....I have also used Hot water with initial dose on individual mounds. Be sure to treat at dusk when most of the worker ants have returned to the mound. Good luck

three methods. use amdro.

cornmeal didn't work for me.

with two people, dig deep into two mounds and dump the dirt on the (put baby /talc powder on the shovel handle so the ants do not attack you) while you carry the shovels to the opposing hill. the ants will fight it out.

water does nothing.

pour club soda into a hill. the carbon dioxide will suffocate them.

Diatomaceous Earth is the best thing you can use in my opinion. They can’t build a resistance against it. I just covered my steps with it a week ago and haven’t seen very many ants since then. Where I have seen them is not where I put it down.

Born and raised in south Texas, I can tell you that you do not get rid of fire ants but you can keep them at bay with due diligence. What we found worked best was to get up early (and for us this was on a Saturday) and take a small container of gasoline and walk around the property and pour about 2-3 tablespoons down the anthill hole, try to get right down the hole. By doing this early the fumes tend to settle down the hole instead of evaporating right away. Some ants die but I think most just moved away from their stinky home. We had a couple of acres with goats, chickens and other animals, they weren't likely to eat grass around the gas and I couldn't be sure of other products. Not to mention 5 children, they didn't eat the grass (I don't think) but they did often run barefoot. Our neighbors all had fire ants but we DID NOT. This was not a one shot deal. We did this every week until they had all moved away and then we just patrolled the yard every week or so and treated any hills we found which were few and far between. Yes, the gas made small brown spots but it was no more unsightly than the hills and a heck of a lot safer. It was funny, there were ant hills all around our property right up to the fence but not on our two acres. I can assure you sheep and cattle fencing didn't keep them out!

Thank you. Will certainly consider this....