Fire Ants And How To Declare War On Them
81The Fire Ant , Our Enemy
Disturbing a Fire Ant Mound, Not Something We Would Suggest You Do.
Fire Ants And How To Get Rid Of Them
The Fire Ant came to the United States around 1930 in shipments of old tires shipped to Mobile Alabama. And the rest is really history. Fire Ant bites and stings are very painful to humans and pets. In some areas of the southeastern USA fields and yards are covered with the fire ant mounds. If the fire ant has come to your neighborhood you probably want to know what you can do to get rid of the critters and that is what we are going to do is tell you how you can declare war on fire ants.
Fire Ant Control Methods
Method 1. Borax Acid and Sugar
In a pot ( You want to use a old one ) place 1 gallon of water. Into this pot place 8 oz of powder borax acid and 8 oz of granulated white sugar. Bring to a boil and then turn off. Stir it very well and let cool. Into the pot place cotton balls using something to push the cotton balls under the water. Go around your yard and drop one or two cotton balls soaked with the borax acid and sugar water mixture on to the top of each fire ant mound.
Method 2. Cinnamon and Orange Juice.
Buy a large container of cinnamon and mix it into a gallon of orange juice. Mix it together very well. Go around your yard and wet the top of each fire ant mound.You can sprinkle dry cinnamon around your yard and the fire ants will leave your yard. They can not stand cinnamon. And believe it or not but oranges and orange juice is toxic to them.
Method 3. Instant Grits And Sugar
Here is what I consider the best method. And you must use instant grits. Only instant grits will work. The long cook grits will not work. Take a large bag of instant grits and add a equal amount of sugar to the grits. Sprinkle the mixture on to the top of every fire ant mound. It will kill the fire ants and you can hurry the process along by taking a few sponges and cutting them up. Soal them with water and drop them onto the top of your grits and sugar mixture. The fire ants will eat the grits and explode. I have wiped out large fire ant mounds with this method.
The Queen Fire Ant
How to Get Rid of Fire Ants
How to Eliminate Ants
Hot Boiling Water Kills Fire Ants
Boiling Water will kill fire ants. If you only have a few mounds to get rid of this is a great method. You want to take a shovel or garden rake and cut a hole in the top of the mound just before you bring the boiling water. Pour the boiling water into the hole you created. Wait a day or two and if necessary repeat your attack. It will work. And if you like after pouring in your boiling water you could hit them with the grit method. You will destroy the mound and the surviving fire ants will leave your yard. If not simply repeat until you see no fire ants.
Another thing you can do is mix apple cider vinegar 1 quart to one gallon of water and spray a perimeter around your yard. The scent of the vinegar messes up the ants sense of smell and will confuse them badly. You can keep most ants out of your house with this method. Find where they are entering your house and spray the area heavy with the vinegar water. And yes apple cider vinegar works best.
Baby powder sprinkled on any ant mound will destroy part of the mound and confuse the hell out of the ants. Any type of baby powders will mess up the ants sense of smell.And the more you can confuse fire ants the better off you will be.
When your after fire ants and you don't want to use commercial pesticides you really have to declare war on the ants and use every method you can to get rid of the ants. The methods on this page will work but you want to stick to these methods and you will be successful in getting rid of your fire ant population.
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if ya wanna annoy them jus piss on em lol
I must say that pouring boiling water on them is a very satisfying endeavour.
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take a scoop from one pile of fire ants and dump on another and let the war begin. or left over seasoned water from crawfish or crabs.
My two year old son got waxed by them - he is in horrible pain - got between his toes. He also had an allergic reaction. Be careful when you fight these bastards - 15% of the population is allergic. Keep Benadryl creme on hand. and type in fire ant bites into google for a GREAT after bite treatment from eMedicine.
I only have one mound and they got me really good last week. REVENGE The boiling water method does make me feel better. Today I noticed they have removed piles of dead fireants from the mound and are moving little white things around. I will push the shovel a little further down this time and repeat today. I hates them!
Just about any poison or homemade remedy will kill fire ants. The trick is to kill the queen, which after 30 years of fighting them I have found impossible because the queen may be 20 feet from the mound deep in the ground. About all you can do is what everyone suggest, they all work, and make the mound move, then treat it, move again, treat it, and finally it will disappear. Back when they first started, the state gave out Myrex. Myrex REALLY DID WORK!!! But lo and behold, it was outlawed and the fight has been on ever since.
I lived down south for about 15 years, and fire ants are very difficult to get rid of. what we did that worked was take one pile of fire ants and put it on another and let them kill each other. But thinking that this will solve the fire ant problem is not realistic.
If I kill the mounds, they just relocate! There must be billions of them under the ground. They wont go away!
Fire ant bites: Dousing the skin with amonia right after a bite, will stop them from welting up. It stings for a few minutes, but, the reward is not having pain and itching for days!
My 2 year old daughter was attacked by fire ants today and just within the 3 mins it took to strip her down and get them off she was bitten over 50 times on one ankle. I can't wait to declare war on them and get revenge for my baby girl. I think I will try every method on each mound I can find!
Thank God we do not have fire ants they look like awful ants to have to deal with. Nice hub.
I HATE those ants!They ate my leg up when I was at camp!I had to soke my leg in ice to get rid of the pain!
I was recently bitten and the bites were itchy, red and getting infected. I put tea tree oil on the bites and the itching and redness immediately started clearing up!
I live in Trenton Nova Scotia Canada and I just bought a house in Mqy..our back yard is crawling with these damn ants..I have been bitten several times..I bought a new bonfire pit before I knew we had them and haven't been able to use it because we can't sit in our yard..they will eat us alive...I need a sure fire method that will kill these things...any suggestions???
Informative hub!Gosh! I can't imagine how fire ants bite me.
My grandson got out of the car and step into a mound of fire ants, to soothe the sting put vinegar on the bits.
There is a white colored like blister where the fire ant bite. Is it safe to pop that? My daughter here in FL says that is what she does to herself when she has been bitten. Weh have given our 4 yr. old Benedryl and iced the foot. It appears he has only been bitten once.
Its not safe to pop the pustule as it may become infected. There is new skin growing under it. Make sure to treat fire ant still.gs like a cut or wound. Keep them clean and put antibiotics ointment on them to speed healing. For the revenge scoop a pile of them onto another pile of them and they will kill each other its funny to watch.
The best is to imediatly cut an onion and rub it on the bite, it helps like a miracle!
Ran across an interesting item, don't know if it works, try it and report back...
A lady named Teresa Cook wrote this:
"For years I've read about many methods for getting rid of ants, especially fire ants. My husband and I have used a method that works every time. We both take a deep shovel full of two different anthills and swap them into each other's hill. The ants are very territorial and protective of their larvae and queen and will fight to the death, even killing the queen. It takes a day or so, but it gets rid of the ants permanently. The best thing is that no chemicals are used, and it's free."
kappa022 3 years ago
Fireants and terrible for your lawn, and their bites hurt like hell, nice hub!