Damn fire ants......

Loaded up a bunch of junk plywood & remodeling scrap Friday to take to the dump & laid my arm right in a bunch of the little biting bastards while looking under the truck for a place to hook up the tie down straps. Talk about being so pissed you can't see straight. Now I just have to fight the urge of scratching the siht out of the bites.

I guess nothing really works against them 100%. I have tried the "correct" way & used a few different store bought fire ant killers you put on the mound. And I have also tried "bad neighbor" methods & tried pouring both gas & used oil on the mounds. All that really ever seems to happen is they just move the mound to a new spot.

Thought about trying bleach next but have no idea if it will effect them.

M80 firework. Blow em to hell next up, gasoline and a torch.

Endosulfan or Talstar will work on about anything .

Just don't be using them around fishing holes

We have the little bastards like crazy up here in North Texas and I think fire ants think andro is candy. I use the Bayer stuff with great success now on the years I take care of. As far as treating you the only thing that I could get to work for me was a paste made with water and baking soda.

Call Billy the exterminator............

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

Chewing tobacco..............chewed up and juicy of course..............works good on wasp stings.

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

Chewing tobacco..............chewed up and juicy of course..............works good on wasp stings.

Are you encouraging me?

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

Chewing tobacco..............chewed up and juicy of course..............works good on wasp stings.

Are you encouraging me?

I'd rather eat a cat turd as put that nasty shit in my mouth...........

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

Chewing tobacco..............chewed up and juicy of course..............works good on wasp stings.

Are you encouraging me?

I'd rather eat a cat turd as put that nasty shit in my mouth...........

The Coug will be here shortly...

Club soda, is supossed to work on the mounds to kill them.

A pot of boiling water will for sure kill them.. it will kill the grass also (like it ain't already dead in the middle of summer) but you have a very good chance of boiling the queen with this meathod. I also like propane and a match method (not that I have ever tired that before )

Dave get out your cutting torch and wait till Noon strait up and set it to cut the pop out the flame and stick it in the hole wait 20 seconds and relight the fire and stick it in the hole nothing will come out again....

we use to do this on a pipeline crew I never noticed but the old man that showed it to me said the all went down the hole at noon I watched and they damn sure did flash fire sears them every time no survivors.


be careful when you light it the ground will puff



Randy

gas + super soaker + match = wicked awesome flame throwing fire ant killer.

I use baby powder Yeah the same stuff used on babies the cheaper the better. They love the stuff and its deadly to them.

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:

bb429power wrote:

richter69 wrote:Call Billy the exterminator............

Mr. Orkin, I know that the water and baking soda crap is supposed to work for wasp stings. I can't remember if it did though, I think it did

Chewing tobacco..............chewed up and juicy of course..............works good on wasp stings.

Are you encouraging me?

I'd rather eat a cat turd as put that nasty shit in my mouth...........

Your suppost to get the old lady to chew it up

I use afterbite on them. You have too keep adding it for the first few hours but I find they don't itch for the next three weeks if I do it. As far as the ants themselves I uses the Scotts fertilizer with fire ant control in the spring and usually by the fall I need to treat again.

Stand a ProComp cyl head casting on end on top of the mound, you'll never see them again.................

richter69 wrote:Stand a ProComp cyl head casting on end on top of the mound, you'll never see them again.................

With or without NOS.

A little M5 should do it. seems to work on everything else.

Best thing(This works(TRUST ME))Pull your pants down to your knees,set your ass as close to the pile as you can.Then light a big ole fart.If it don't kill them,try again

Shove a Gout pill in the hole.............

Randy, I didn't say it but I knew someone would. But what would you do if the bit your azz? Can't sit for a while Shove a Jay Allen cam in the hole, ought to do the trick.

In the past when I tried pouring gas on a mound it was more about the chemical side and never thought to light the gas cuz I figured it probably wouldn't burn inside the mound.

Lighting straight acetylene in a mound sounds interesting for a soft/sooty burn. I don't think I would want to shoot both oxygen & acetylene in there (like we used to do at work years ago shooting both in a pipe & lighting it to scare the crap out of the whole warehouse with the big Ka-boom ). A booming mound & the little bastards raining down all over wouldn't be fun.

I did try swapping out ice packs from the freezer on the bites, but it didn't really help much.

richter69 wrote:Stand a ProComp cyl head casting on end on top of the mound, you'll never see them again.................

Maybe Les has a spare set.