We get fire ants here and big black ones too.... We use the AMDRO line of ant products... they work... and it only takes about a tablespoon.... keep away from dogs and kids.
I have the same issue with concrete ants that also show up in the yard. I have tried numerous ant killers but they kept coming back. I had wasp killer and sprayed the areas infested, so far 3 weeks later no more ants.
You have to kill the whole nest. A mixture of peanut butter, sugar, and borax (fairly equal amounts of each) is something they love to take home to their children! It can take quite a lot of it. I usually start with about two tablespoons of each. Add more sugar and/or borax until it's nice, small crumbles if it's clumpy. Make more as it disappears until they stop coming for it. Once they discover it, you have to just overlook the fact that hordes of ants are coming out of the nest to get this delicious treat. It's tempting to spray them, but if you can let them finish the job, it's a pretty good way to get rid of them permanently. I've heard cornmeal works this way, too, so you may want to prepare a buffet with that as an option and see which they prefer.
I put a hill of cornmeal by each hill. The ants take it to their den and eat it and they implode. If the wind blows it away, replace it. I also do that in my strawberry rows for the red ants and they disappear.
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We get fire ants here and big black ones too.... We use the AMDRO line of ant products... they work... and it only takes about a tablespoon.... keep away from dogs and kids.
I have the same issue with concrete ants that also show up in the yard. I have tried numerous ant killers but they kept coming back. I had wasp killer and sprayed the areas infested, so far 3 weeks later no more ants.
You have to kill the whole nest. A mixture of peanut butter, sugar, and borax (fairly equal amounts of each) is something they love to take home to their children! It can take quite a lot of it. I usually start with about two tablespoons of each. Add more sugar and/or borax until it's nice, small crumbles if it's clumpy. Make more as it disappears until they stop coming for it. Once they discover it, you have to just overlook the fact that hordes of ants are coming out of the nest to get this delicious treat. It's tempting to spray them, but if you can let them finish the job, it's a pretty good way to get rid of them permanently. I've heard cornmeal works this way, too, so you may want to prepare a buffet with that as an option and see which they prefer.
Cinnamon. Just sprinkle it wherever ants are. Quickly disappear
Poor a bottle of Clorax over it. Try to dig down into it before you do it. them put a couple of those Terro houses around the hill.
I put a hill of cornmeal by each hill. The ants take it to their den and eat it and they implode. If the wind blows it away, replace it. I also do that in my strawberry rows for the red ants and they disappear.