Is there a home remedy for getting rid of fire ants?
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gasoline and a match.
watch your eyebrows
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blow torch lol
blow torch lol
No there nothing
Put a mixture of yeast, sugar, and powder laundry soap around the outside of your house/yard.
Grits are said to work... sprinkle them around the mound and after the ants begin to carry them in for food, add water.
I found gasoline helps when you pour it on the ant hill.
Burn your house down.
Do you have a Yucca plant? If so, get rid of the plant and you'll get rid of the ants.
If you don't have one, check with a knowledgable nursery and see if they have any trees or shrubs that will drive them to your neighbors.
There are two sure "fire" ways..pure Clorox bleach into the mound...or...pour grits all over the mound...The bleach suffocate them and they eat the grits and the grits swell in their stomach and they die..
Here in west Texas we get a LOT of fire ants. While I don't have a "home remedy" for them, I find that Sevin dust works really well.
Just apply heavily around the mound, and in a few days that colony should disappear.
However, I do not think that anything outside of a nuclear war will remove them forever. :)
I was told not long ago that Grits is the best natural/cost effective way to eliminate fireants. After they take the grits to the queen and its consumed by the remaining colony. They will die of thirst? Its worth a try...
Sam
cornmeal (or the grits) - but it has to be dry when you sprinkle it - what happens is the ants carry the dry cornmeal to the nest, but when they eat it, it gets wet, swells up/expands, and explodes their little bellies.
Baby powder works for regular ants, maybe it will work on fire ants. Just sprinkle baby powder on the mound. We were told that ants breathe through their feet and when they step in the powder it sticks to their feet and they suffocate. Within about 15 min. no more ants!
Sprinkle ordinary yellow corn meal around the opening of the ant hill, they eat it and take it down to the rest of the colony to eat also but they cannot digest it so they die out within three or four days.