Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Thanks, I've killed regular ants with hot water or vinegar separately. Even used grits, ants eat grits and they explode. Fire ants are a different breed. It's very hard to kill them. Even poison or gas doesn't kill them all. They are so deep in the ground. A guy I used to work with said gun powder works, shooting mound with a shot gun. My husband says bullets are to expensive. I agreed.
Keep pouring coffee grounds into their hole, it will take a couple of weeks, they get messed up, forget to forage, the workers dont go back, the colony dies off, the hepped up workers wander off and die without the colony, they will stay away from then on.
Amdro, available at the big box stores. I lived in central Florida and fire ants are a big problem. They put me in the emergency department twice. The little bastards think Amdro is candy and they take it into the colony and feed it to the queen. I kept a bottle of it on the handle of the lawn mower. See a mound, sprinkle a capful. Pretty soon, they’re gone.
If you use hot water, it will kill your grass. I know from experience, lol. Husband didn't find it very funny though ;)
I also heard if you have two big ant beds, get a shovel and scoop up one ant bed and throw it on another ant bed, they will fight to the death, killing each other. Saw a video on it awhile back.