fishinglibin Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 The last couple of summers, I am finding all sorts of ant hills all over my lawn and garden. Do any of you have any ancient family secrets how to get rid of or control these little monsters. A guy cant even play bocce and have a beer in his back yard without being over run by ANTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterbig Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 The last couple of summers, I am finding all sorts of ant hills all over my lawn and garden. Do any of you have any ancient family secrets how to get rid of or control these little monsters. A guy cant even play bocce and have a beer in his back yard without being over run by ANTS ground coffee. worked for me last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 The last couple of summers, I am finding all sorts of ant hills all over my lawn and garden. Do any of you have any ancient family secrets how to get rid of or control these little monsters. A guy cant even play bocce and have a beer in his back yard without being over run by ANTS Take a hose and drowned it. Or go to home depot or something and get poison for insects or weeds and pour it on the hill and it should kill them with in 2 minutes then take a shovel and shovel the hill out of your yard that will do the job. AND KILL THE QUEEN ANT ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 never heard of coffee grounds but you can soak the nest with soapy water. kills off alot, the rest should leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricinus Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Dr. Doom---works great Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Light a small fire on top the ant hill. The ants will panic and carry the queen ant out of the hill in an attempt to save the colony. KILL HER! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutsteaks Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Both of my solutions are non-eco-friendly so look away tree huggers. Spray foam in the ant hills and gasoline on the ant trails works every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean84 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Get a small dog that loves to eat ants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 having the same issue.. heard a mix of Borrax (cleaning powder) and icing sugar. They take it back to for the boyz and lady to chow on.. we will see if it works. Fire idea sounds good, bylaw guys might not agree right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryH Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 having the same issue.. heard a mix of Borrax (cleaning powder) and icing sugar. They take it back to for the boyz and lady to chow on.................... There are commercial products (e.g. "Ant-be-gone") available at any hardware store that I believe are borax based. They are very effective, but you have to be patient. I've found it takes at least a week or so before the deed is done. The idea is you put a few drops on any impervious surface (on a lawn, you might just put some duct tape on a scrap of wood) in their travel path. The workers take it back to the nest and feed it to the queen. When she dies, they abandon the nest. We live on an acreage, and it's war every spring as the ants search out new nest sites, like in our house. We've won the battle every year using this stuff. Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeAB Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 If you want to get rid of them all, you need to get rid of the breeders; Queen. So as mentioned in some of the previous posts, buy a product that gets taken back to the nest and has a residual effect, not just a contact insecticide. When I worked for the Pesticide Chemicals Branch of Alberta Environment, the one which was effective and common is chlorpyrofos. Many brands have it as the active ingrediant, just look on the container. Worked great at my place for those pesky little red ants. They were all gone after a couple of weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 420FLYFISHIN Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 this one will be about 30Cents out of your pocket. dig a small hole close to the ant hill, stick a jar in the whole and leave about 1cm above the ground and push the dirst back around it and go have a few beers. one falls in and cant make it out of the over hang and the rest will track right on in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffer Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 If you want to get rid of them all, you need to get rid of the breeders; Queen. So as mentioned in some of the previous posts, buy a product that gets taken back to the nest and has a residual effect, not just a contact insecticide. When I worked for the Pesticide Chemicals Branch of Alberta Environment, the one which was effective and common is chlorpyrofos. Many brands have it as the active ingrediant, just look on the container. Worked great at my place for those pesky little red ants. They were all gone after a couple of weeks. I dont know if you can still buy chlorpyrophos based formulations for the home. Being an organophosphate they may have been banned, not really the kind of stuff one wants around the home. As for the ants, most of the commercially available formulations are based on boric acid or borax mixed with a sugar of some sort. If you mix borax 1:1 with icing sugar the ants will carry the borax into the nest and kill them. You can sprinkle it around and put some in an area where the ants can get at it. Or get an anteater. Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinglibin Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 Anyone have an ant eater they will loan out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffer Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Anyone have an ant eater they will loan out? I dont know how to respond to this without is going south in a hurry, but I will try. My wife does not let me loan out my ant eater any more. Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I dont know how to respond to this without is going south in a hurry, but I will try. My wife does not let me loan out my ant eater any more. Andrew Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinglibin Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 Yah James, some of these guys are a little wierd. HA HA Present company excluded, but I set myself up for that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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