I keep this come snd get it on my ranger. Everytime I see a mound and the weather is good I scrape the top off the mound snd sprinkle it on top. After a few days the ants are gone!!
Any mound I have sprinkled this stuff on, has become vacant within a week when I check back. Since I’ve been using this, I find myself chasing mounds around the yard less and less. In the past I felt the mounds just moved from place to place. Not anymore. I was suspect of the product at first but since using it this spring and into summer, I definitely don’t have fire any beds in my garden anymore. Just eliminating smaller beds within my yard. Nothing like what I was using before.
Yes, it makes them move. If they survive bait, they will never eat it again, but will move. This can be a good thing, because once they move 3-4 times they will starve. You don't have to kill them, just a tiny amount of product that will make them move will eventually starve them out.
Not every mound has a queen. That's why bait works so well. If you bait 1 mound and the workers carry it to other connected mounds 10-50 feet away, 1 of them may be the queen mound and all the satellite mounds will die of old age.
He speaks the truth. I’m 70 and grew up in South Georgia and these ants are the scourge. In the 60s we had this stuff, Mirex, killed them in hours. One teaspoon was it. Now it’s gone nothing comes close.
I agree.My old neighbor passed away recently and he had cases of dursban in his shed that he stockpiled when they banned it. I'm good to go for the rest of my life.
I'm in s. Louisiana & I knock away the mound that's above ground & then pour boiling water into the nest. I watch it for a few days to see if anymore mounds appear, if they do then more boiling water is added. Its been working for me for years.
40 years in FL. orlando i use gas poor it slow right in the middle of hill , let the gas work it way down , then 2 min later light it you will see the hill burn and smoke come out of all mounds that are part of there hive ps 8 to 12 oz of gas works great
Depending on the sub soil structure and density where you are, a fire ant bed can be SEVERAL feed under ground. I have read about them being found 8 feet deep on a construction site.
I used to live in Round Rock Texas and had fire ants really bad until the old farmer down the road told me that all you need is a shovel...and he was right. You dig up a couple shovels full from one ant mound and dump it on another. After about three days there will be no ants left. Each mound will fight to the death. It worked for me and I probably had 20 mounds of them.
Ants will not cross cinnamon, so you could probably rub cinnamon onto the shovel hadle to keep them at the far end. This forced ant warfare is worth a try.
@@glennhubbard5008 Little bastards. I have 2 acres that I maintain. I get bit around my ankles every Summer because I wear quarter socks. The marks finally disappear by Spring, just in time to get bit again and marked up.
@@kevingray8616 I have two acres, also. I treat every mound I find immediately. Also along my road and the local cemetery! I worry our local fields and meadows will become like the horse pastures I saw in eastern Texas about fifteen years ago.
Fipronil spray works great, use a metal stick to dig down & help the liquid get down to the queen. Have tried orange oil & detergent with reasonable success, but sometimes need to retreat.
I don't know if it'll work, I just think you're nice. Gosh a yellow humming bird just bumped into the house! I'm sitting on the porch, my swim is abandoned, my feet and ankles have stinging red welts and I hate fire ants, but I like your video. Thanks.
A fire ant colony consists of several mounds, usually within a 50' radius, and usually have 1 queen. The workers distribute the eggs and larvae from the queen's mound to the other mounds. Bait will still kill the queen because the workers will carry it a long way to the queen if necessary. Problem with baits: When some workers and the queen survive the bait, the entire colony will never again take the bait, and will simply move the mound. You can take advantage of this by poisoning all the mounds you can find in a colony. When the colony is strong with plenty of warmth and food, they can move several times and survive. When the weather is cool (below 65F) and/or wet and food is scarce, they can't move but about twice and will die out. Keep the pressure up on all mounds in the colony by treating all mounds in cool wet weather and the entire colony will starve out.
I've never worried about putting it directly on the mounds. They'll go 50' to get food, they'll go 50' to get the bait. Several small piles of bait all around seems to distribute it to the colony better. They also don't like the mower! So in the yard I always pause a bit when mowing directly over a mound. I think the best you can really do sometimes is get them to move along!
I am trying "come and get it 2" in my garden this season. Ants have become a terrible problem. I lost all of my potatoes to ants eating the stems and feeding on the sap. I just planted my okra and the ant do love young okra pods and flowers. The zipper peas will be planted soon and the ants "farm" the aphids. I think my back yard garden has become one huge ant bed.
Definitely going to give this a try. Whatever I purchased a Lowes that I had to chase with water worked but the ants basically moved eventually. When I was a kid in Florida we had huge mounds in our backyard and my dad would just dump gasoline on them. That’s a “sure fire” way to kill the little buggers.
If you go to the Brookfield Museum in Chicago Illinois, they have a whole display of fire ants in a nest and they teach their school children about these things. They are all over Chicago Illinois now.
@@donnajean9805 interesting! we got the imported fire ants here in North Texas back in the 80s. They have been gradually making their way up to the north. But I didn’t realize they got as far north as Chicago. I read that’s too cold for them up there. Apparently they adapted. They used to be very aggressive when we first got them here but they’ve calmed down a little. They LOVE to get into an electrical things like relays in air conditioners by the way, so beware! Sorry you got ‘em!
The fire ants came in on ships from South America into the ports in Louisiana back in the late forties,,early fifties and slowly spread across the south.
Always had good results with just soakin em in charcoal starter or lawn gas and letting it soak in before making a containment circle about 5 feet out and setting it up. Fire ain't the best solution, but danged if it don't work.
get a metal hand held rake. stir the top. you will motivate thousands of them. take the torch to them. then do it every few days. then you can put DE down, but DE, does not discriminate. The torch appears to work better then DE. It's like they can stay underground, until the rain mixes the DE with the clay, and they recover quickly, and the nest has not moved.
What some people did when they found a fire ant bed was to take a shovel and scoop up a bunch of dirt and fire ants. Quickly find another mound, kick the mound to stir them up and dump your shovel of fire ants on them. They think they are being invaded and within a few hours they are all dead. If you have a few hundred acres of fire ants you may get really tired of doing this.
How far north are they not a problem? My grandparents had a little spread with fenced in pastures with about half a dozen red ant hills and they were agressive. This was outside of Reed City, Michigan, quite a ways north in the lower peninsula.
Worse problem is when people mow their grass they run over the mounds blowing them further out so more mounds will start I keep a gallon of fire ant spray when mowing
Very useful info, Thanks! I lost half of my potatoes this year to ants. Question for you, im in North Florida and im 38, an older gentleman i know (85) keeps mentioning a small ear flint corn from when he was younger but doesnt know the name. He said the ears were usually laee than 7-8" long. Any idea what type it may have been?
Not sure, we carry a Indian Flour Corn that is a flint. Click link below to browse our pictures hosstools.com/product-category/premium-garden-seeds/corn-field/
I have covered mounds with weeds from my garden and they seemed to consume them and mound dirt back up. After a couple times they seemed to disappear. I had another much bigger mound in another garden so I did the same thing except I thoroughly covered it with poke salad leaves. They were gone in 3 days. I have used sulfur and Epsom salts with good success! Also urine does well but it takes about 5 or 6 treatments over several days. Combining these treatments is a pretty sure thing and they go quickly like just 2 days in some cases.
What is this witchcraft?! You are saying you put what on fire ants - weeds? Just putting weeds on them, or salad (food) leaves on them made them vacate? I have never heard of this. How does this work?
@@cra2cra226 that is poke salad or poke weed. It is edible but it has to be blanched a few times to remove most of the toxins. No magic, just experimentation.
I have discovered a fire ant mound just inside a tree trunk! When I have treated the ground around the tree, it seems they retreated up into the tree. I pulled some of the bark off and saw them. Any recs for something liquid I can spray onto the tree? I used Spectricide Mound destroyer which does work well, but I can't get dry product onto a vertical surface.
Thanks for sharing. We see a fire ant bed we put our chicken on them. They go to town eating them. We rack the mound down so they all can have some ants. It has made a huge difference in our fields. It sure make our 🐔 happy scratching around for more ants.
My chickens must be too dumb for that. My run has tons of fire ants and the chickens seem oblivious. They just coexist. Ants even get in the coop when an egg gets busted and not one chicken defends their territory
My hens don't want any part of eating ants! They will run the opposite direction, thus I'm left to come up with solutions that are also safe for the hens. I'm trying DE and hope it will work. I have a massive mound at the original coop....(the hens moved on up to fancier digs), so it's like the ants knew it had been vacated. 😵💫
Is it safe for dogs? I moved here from Michigan. Was standing in grass one day, felt something on my feet. Looked down, both my ankles and feet were brown with fire ants. Got blisters, bites lasted for months. There are a few mounds in my yard. I swear they pop up overnight seems like.
When I lived in Arizona when they showed up I used Amdro, It is like candy to them and gets fed to the Queen No heavy poison but kills the ants and queen
Is it safe to put in your vegetable beds? Right now I use a dilute solution of orange oil and dawn, and flood the mound, followed by an additional gallon of water. It works pretty well, but it has damaged a couple of plants over the years. This sounds interesting.
I just about eliminated fire ants from my property (23.5 acres) by using and pumping NOx into the bed,this said I firmly believe that it's impossible to entirely eliminate these varmints permanently, but very possible to control them on your property.
As a seasoned camper I learned that using either used or fresh coffee grinds on and around 🐜 ants. I used “used coffee grinds” on a fire ant mound at a campground and didn’t see an ant for days. The acidity is something ants don’t like.
The only thing about killing the queen, if fire ants are like bees, if the queen dies then the honey bees can create another queen by feeding royal jelly to a cell that has a bee larvae in it. They draw that cell out and then they have another queen bee! Bees are amazing creatures, and I’m pretty sure that ants aren’t far behind them!
Not sure ants create another queen, maybe so. However, if you treat the mounds in cool and/or wet weather, they probably won't. In cool or wet weather, they are struggling to survive and using all their energy to move the mound away from the treated area.
This warfare is like getting rid of wasps and hornets. If you kill the queen early in the spring, you're not likely to have a problem later. If you don't get the queen, the colony will keep going on.
Please share how you find and kill the queen in a wasp nest. I'm sick of battling them. I've tried hanging brown paper bags (so they think another colony is already here), I've tried soaping water, I've tried the commercial wasp sprays, etc. It knocks them back but they're still around so I obviously haven't found the queen.
Fire ants with crawl on your legs, but won't immediately start stinging. Once there's a couple of hundred on you, the leader blows a tiny bugle. THEN , they all start stinging at the same time.
Well, we just need to take their bugles away. Problem solved! Just kidding. My dad walked through a fire ant colony, down in Florida. His legs were covered in sting marks. Very bad.
I've been mixing de and come and get it together. I'm wondering if I should be doing that still or should be putting them on separately. I'm starting to think that maybe it's a bad idea to mix them
How do you know that a particular ant colony is fire ants? I’m new to TX, and am starting to notice ant nests here and there around my house. Will this product control all types of ants? Isn’t there anything cheaper but as effective? Inquiring minds want to know! 🙂
Hundreds of fireant colonies on my 5 acres. When I use Amdro it all disappears in an hour or two then I see a tiny sign on the mound that says SEND MORE AMDRO PLEASE. The colony gets bigger.
Taking your recommendation, Greg. These South Carolina fire ants ain’t gonna know what hit ‘em. Also, double wheel hoe has been a game changer and a back saver for me. Appreciate y’all and what you do!
don't get mad with me but this took me back a ways to a job I was installing for a client in Fla and they came in on a root ball on a tree i was planting and they got on me . well I had a meeting with the owner and the builder and the both arrived on site and i got off my New Holland and approached the two and right as i got close it happened ! one of the large headed red ants had hid in my shorts and to make it worse on my what you ma call it and bit into me like a pit bull catchin a hawg ! oh Hell no ! and I ran to the back yard and pulled my pants off and they were perplexed untill I showed em the culprit ! true story ! they know just when to bite you , and good !
When there's a sufficient number on your legs, the leader blows a tiny bugle, letting everyone know it's time to attack. The real reason is that their legs are laying a trail of chemicals, when the concentration reaches a certain level, they know it's time to begin the attack.
Going to order some fire ant bait. I’ve tried several commercial and home remedies and they keep coming back. I’m in NE California and have lots of them. I happen to have an identical sink in my greenhouse. Came out of a commercial building we bought in 95’. The building is over 100 years old and was supposed to have been a bar downstairs and a whore house upstairs back in the day. It is a very heavy sink and took me awhile to mount it and build a base for it. Never thought I’d see another one!
@@gardeningwithhoss kinda like honey bees? If so, I wonder if there’s a scent they favor like bees. I know that carpenter ants can scent moist wood and are attracted to it.
I purchased "Come & Get it" because of your recommendation. I followed the directions and I'm sorry to say it did not work. I have a few large hills and many small ones. Put flag stakes on those treated to return 1 1/2 weeks later without any success. Spent $27. I normally pour boiling water on the hills multiple times, looks like I'm back to the old method.
i hope its dog safe. I've tried all those methods . as well as making borax and sugar baits, using other store bought baits, and my most recent try was boiling lemon peels and using the liquid to pour in the beds. so far the boiled lemon peel method works well, it seems to have worked. but I have many fire ant mounds that regularly pop up every where
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We sadly have a HUGE amount of mounds in our yardage of topsoil that was left in our backyard from when they were building our property Otherwise this soil would be useable but one of the mounds is HALF AS TALL AS I AM. no joke. It’s like the 2.5 foot tall mound of soil is FULL of the ants
I hate to contradict you, Greg, but when I moved into my house over 8 years ago it didn’t take long to learn that I had a huge fire ant problem in my yard. The first time I mowed the back yard, I walked straight through a huge mound and both my legs were covered with fire ants; the pain from the stings was so bad I may as well have been on fire. Throughout my first year, I dusted about a dozen good sized mounds with DE and each time within a couple of hours, they went away. I’m assuming they died off, but all I can attest to is that the mound was rendered virtually inactive. Once in a while I’ll happen onto a new mound, but that happens less and less each year. Once I found an ant mount had grown completely over my septic aerator. I dusted it immediately and by the next day, I scooped the dirt from around and on the top of the aerator and saw not one ant. I think the trick (for me) is to excite the ant activity by running a stick over the top and sides of the mound...(this seems to bring many more ants up to the surface) and then blast them with the DE. Every time I’ve done it this way (including inside storage units where I used to work), the ants either go away or die. Not sure which it is, but so long as the conditions are absolutely dry, I’ve had great luck with DE.
I’ve seen more and more ant mounds piling up in every neighbor’s yard (they do absolutely nothing to treat their ant issues) and now it’s infested my yard front and back and I have two dogs who love to roll in the grass and nap under the tree right where we’ve had issues of them accumulating. Anyways I saw some other farmers using DE and it seemed to work for them too. I think he’s right, depending on the size, you might have to do several de treatments to kill ‘em or use what he uses and kill them the first time but I applied the de after stirring them up and they immediately freaked and almost disappeared under the dust. I’ve kept an eye out and only a few bigger ants here and there are trying to escape or it could be the ones that were already out foraging coming back to find their home covered. I’ll keep applying it till their gone, seems to be working in just hrs
What brand did you use? I bought some based on advice like this and then while reading the fine print on the back label, I noticed that it says, "kills ants (excluding fire ants)." Well, having paid for it anyways, I sprinkled it all over a bunch of mounds. A day or two later, I can see that they moved from those mounds, but set up new mounds just inches away, sometimes actually touching (adjacent to) the original (now white) mounds. I suppose I could buy another bag and keep chasing them a few inches every 2 or 3 days, but I don't have the time for that. Maybe you bought a fire-ant-specific brand?
@@cra2cra226the way the DE works is the tiny sharp granules in it put holes in the ant’s exoskeleton. Supposedly, if you put a ring around the mound, they will not walk over it and will starve. But I don’t know about other connected underground tunnels with other entrances…
I keep this come snd get it on my ranger. Everytime I see a mound and the weather is good I scrape the top off the mound snd sprinkle it on top. After a few days the ants are gone!!
Probably just moved.
Ain't no way I'm gonna waste my grits on fire ants
Grits don't work.
Grits do not work. I tried it.
Lol
Any mound I have sprinkled this stuff on, has become vacant within a week when I check back. Since I’ve been using this, I find myself chasing mounds around the yard less and less. In the past I felt the mounds just moved from place to place. Not anymore. I was suspect of the product at first but since using it this spring and into summer, I definitely don’t have fire any beds in my garden anymore. Just eliminating smaller beds within my yard. Nothing like what I was using before.
thanks Cody
Yes, it makes them move. If they survive bait, they will never eat it again, but will move. This can be a good thing, because once they move 3-4 times they will starve. You don't have to kill them, just a tiny amount of product that will make them move will eventually starve them out.
Use a cordless drill and a 1/4"× 24" piece of rebar to drill holes down into mound to disturb queen. Also you can get poison closer to queen
Not every mound has a queen. That's why bait works so well. If you bait 1 mound and the workers carry it to other connected mounds 10-50 feet away, 1 of them may be the queen mound and all the satellite mounds will die of old age.
I saw how they control it in areas of Florida, the pump very hot water into the nest using tree root feeding tubes, kills the nest permanently.
He speaks the truth. I’m 70 and grew up in South Georgia and these ants are the scourge. In the 60s we had this stuff, Mirex, killed them in hours. One teaspoon was it. Now it’s gone nothing comes close.
Amdro
@@underthetornado Amdro. Hit or miss.
I agree.My old neighbor passed away recently and he had cases of dursban in his shed that he stockpiled when they banned it. I'm good to go for the rest of my life.
I'm in s. Louisiana & I knock away the mound that's above ground & then pour boiling water into the nest. I watch it for a few days to see if anymore mounds appear, if they do then more boiling water is added. Its been working for me for years.
40 years in FL. orlando i use gas poor it slow right in the middle of hill , let the gas work it way down , then 2 min later light it you will see the hill burn and smoke come out of all mounds that are part of there hive ps 8 to 12 oz of gas works great
I grew up in Orlando and I remember my Granddad pouring gasoline on the mound.
Depending on the sub soil structure and density where you are, a fire ant bed can be SEVERAL feed under ground. I have read about them being found 8 feet deep on a construction site.
I used to live in Round Rock Texas and had fire ants really bad until the old farmer down the road told me that all you need is a shovel...and he was right. You dig up a couple shovels full from one ant mound and dump it on another. After about three days there will be no ants left. Each mound will fight to the death. It worked for me and I probably had 20 mounds of them.
Run fast with that shovel and don’t trip.
That’s hit and miss
Ants will not cross cinnamon, so you could probably rub cinnamon onto the shovel hadle to keep them at the far end. This forced ant warfare is worth a try.
I can remember back in the 1970’s when we didn’t even have any fire ants in East Texas. Ohhh but they are here now.
I've lived in the Houston area most of my life and I remember my parents talking about fire ants coming to Texas back in the 70s.
They have arrived here in Tennessee in the last decade.
@@glennhubbard5008 Little bastards. I have 2 acres that I maintain. I get bit around my ankles every Summer because I wear quarter socks. The marks finally disappear by Spring, just in time to get bit again and marked up.
@@kevingray8616 I have two acres, also. I treat every mound I find immediately. Also along my road and the local cemetery! I worry our local fields and meadows will become like the horse pastures I saw in eastern Texas about fifteen years ago.
Won't be long they'll be in Northwest North Carolina.
I’ve used come and get it….they came and got it and it was lights out. 😵😵😵 👊🏼
I just put up little signs that say, No Fire Ants Allowed in This Yard!! And they all take off.
Fipronil spray works great, use a metal stick to dig down & help the liquid get down to the queen. Have tried orange oil & detergent with reasonable success, but sometimes need to retreat.
I don't know if it'll work, I just think you're nice. Gosh a yellow humming bird just bumped into the house! I'm sitting on the porch, my swim is abandoned, my feet and ankles have stinging red welts and I hate fire ants, but I like your video. Thanks.
Thanks, Just ordered for my fire ant nightmare in deep south east Georgia!
I can speak from personal experience, Greg Key is correct. This stuff works. It kills the entire colony.
A fire ant colony consists of several mounds, usually within a 50' radius, and usually have 1 queen. The workers distribute the eggs and larvae from the queen's mound to the other mounds. Bait will still kill the queen because the workers will carry it a long way to the queen if necessary. Problem with baits: When some workers and the queen survive the bait, the entire colony will never again take the bait, and will simply move the mound. You can take advantage of this by poisoning all the mounds you can find in a colony. When the colony is strong with plenty of warmth and food, they can move several times and survive. When the weather is cool (below 65F) and/or wet and food is scarce, they can't move but about twice and will die out. Keep the pressure up on all mounds in the colony by treating all mounds in cool wet weather and the entire colony will starve out.
I've never worried about putting it directly on the mounds. They'll go 50' to get food, they'll go 50' to get the bait. Several small piles of bait all around seems to distribute it to the colony better. They also don't like the mower! So in the yard I always pause a bit when mowing directly over a mound. I think the best you can really do sometimes is get them to move along!
I am trying "come and get it 2" in my garden this season. Ants have become a terrible problem. I lost all of my potatoes to ants eating the stems and feeding on the sap. I just planted my okra and the ant do love young okra pods and flowers. The zipper peas will be planted soon and the ants "farm" the aphids. I think my back yard garden has become one huge ant bed.
Definitely going to give this a try. Whatever I purchased a Lowes that I had to chase with water worked but the ants basically moved eventually. When I was a kid in Florida we had huge mounds in our backyard and my dad would just dump gasoline on them. That’s a “sure fire” way to kill the little buggers.
Expensive!!
Great garden!!! Wow really impressive
Amdro works here in central Texas.
If you go to the Brookfield Museum in Chicago Illinois, they have a whole display of fire ants in a nest and they teach their school children about these things. They are all over Chicago Illinois now.
Guess they had some wiseakers in Illinois back then
Wow! I did not know that. I didn’t think they were that far north. They don’t like the real cold weather. Interesting.
I live in Chicago...have had fire ants in my yard for about 18 years now.
@@donnajean9805 interesting! we got the imported fire ants here in North Texas back in the 80s. They have been gradually making their way up to the north. But I didn’t realize they got as far north as Chicago. I read that’s too cold for them up there. Apparently they adapted. They used to be very aggressive when we first got them here but they’ve calmed down a little. They LOVE to get into an electrical things like relays in air conditioners by the way, so beware! Sorry you got ‘em!
The fire ants came in on ships from South America into the ports in Louisiana back in the late forties,,early fifties and slowly spread across the south.
Always had good results with just soakin em in charcoal starter or lawn gas and letting it soak in before making a containment circle about 5 feet out and setting it up. Fire ain't the best solution, but danged if it don't work.
Lol using fire against fire lol awesome
get a metal hand held rake. stir the top. you will motivate thousands of them. take the torch to them. then do it every few days. then you can put DE down, but DE, does not discriminate. The torch appears to work better then DE. It's like they can stay underground, until the rain mixes the DE with the clay, and they recover quickly, and the nest has not moved.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! You're very welcome!
My 15 year old has anaphylactic reactions so this was a product that I recently purchased. I just applied it and I'm hoping it really helps.
What some people did when they found a fire ant bed was to take a shovel and scoop up a bunch of dirt and fire ants. Quickly find another mound, kick the mound to stir them up and dump your shovel of fire ants on them. They think they are being invaded and within a few hours they are all dead. If you have a few hundred acres of fire ants you may get really tired of doing this.
Doesn't work any more everywhere. They have evolved. Mounds combine and accept any fire ant.
How far north are they not a problem?
My grandparents had a little spread with fenced in pastures with about half a dozen red ant hills and they were agressive.
This was outside of Reed City, Michigan, quite a ways north in the lower peninsula.
Worse problem is when people mow their grass they run over the mounds blowing them further out so more mounds will start I keep a gallon of fire ant spray when mowing
Very useful info, Thanks! I lost half of my potatoes this year to ants. Question for you, im in North Florida and im 38, an older gentleman i know (85) keeps mentioning a small ear flint corn from when he was younger but doesnt know the name. He said the ears were usually laee than 7-8" long. Any idea what type it may have been?
Not sure, we carry a Indian Flour Corn that is a flint. Click link below to browse our pictures
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I get a lot of fire ant mounds. It's hard to keep them at bay. Especially on the curb in front of my house.
I have covered mounds with weeds from my garden and they seemed to consume them and mound dirt back up. After a couple times they seemed to disappear. I had another much bigger mound in another garden so I did the same thing except I thoroughly covered it with poke salad leaves. They were gone in 3 days.
I have used sulfur and Epsom salts with good success! Also urine does well but it takes about 5 or 6 treatments over several days.
Combining these treatments is a pretty sure thing and they go quickly like just 2 days in some cases.
What is this witchcraft?! You are saying you put what on fire ants - weeds? Just putting weeds on them, or salad (food) leaves on them made them vacate? I have never heard of this. How does this work?
@@cra2cra226 that is poke salad or poke weed. It is edible but it has to be blanched a few times to remove most of the toxins. No magic, just experimentation.
I have discovered a fire ant mound just inside a tree trunk! When I have treated the ground around the tree, it seems they retreated up into the tree. I pulled some of the bark off and saw them. Any recs for something liquid I can spray onto the tree? I used Spectricide Mound destroyer which does work well, but I can't get dry product onto a vertical surface.
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Thanks for sharing. We see a fire ant bed we put our chicken on them. They go to town eating them. We rack the mound down so they all can have some ants. It has made a huge difference in our fields. It sure make our 🐔 happy scratching around for more ants.
So the ants don't sting the chickens?
Interesting.
My chickens must be too dumb for that. My run has tons of fire ants and the chickens seem oblivious. They just coexist. Ants even get in the coop when an egg gets busted and not one chicken defends their territory
Ugh I wish I could have chickens! They’re amazing
My hens don't want any part of eating ants! They will run the opposite direction, thus I'm left to come up with solutions that are also safe for the hens. I'm trying DE and hope it will work. I have a massive mound at the original coop....(the hens moved on up to fancier digs), so it's like the ants knew it had been vacated. 😵💫
Is it safe for dogs? I moved here from Michigan. Was standing in grass one day, felt something on my feet. Looked down, both my ankles and feet were brown with fire ants. Got blisters, bites lasted for months. There are a few mounds in my yard. I swear they pop up overnight seems like.
yes
When I lived in Arizona when they showed up I used Amdro, It is like candy to them and gets fed to the Queen No heavy poison but kills the ants and queen
Is it safe to put in your vegetable beds? Right now I use a dilute solution of orange oil and dawn, and flood the mound, followed by an additional gallon of water. It works pretty well, but it has damaged a couple of plants over the years. This sounds interesting.
yes it is
What about if chickens ducks or guinea get into this?
Castine, Maine has fire ants.
What's the name of the product?
Where can I get the product?
hosstools.com/product/fire-ant-killer/
Thanks for the information! Many blessings ❤
You are so welcome
I just about eliminated fire ants from my property (23.5 acres) by using and pumping NOx into the bed,this said I firmly believe that it's impossible to entirely eliminate these varmints permanently, but very possible to control them on your property.
Like terrorists they're here to stay
Man I loved your video. I shared it in my hoa group.
Would be cool to see a video by you on a non-toxic way(s) to deal with rats.
Noted!
As a seasoned camper I learned that using either used or fresh coffee grinds on and around 🐜 ants. I used “used coffee grinds” on a fire ant mound at a campground and didn’t see an ant for days. The acidity is something ants don’t like.
DUDE!!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN!!!!! m
The only thing about killing the queen, if fire ants are like bees, if the queen dies then the honey bees can create another queen by feeding royal jelly to a cell that has a bee larvae in it. They draw that cell out and then they have another queen bee! Bees are amazing creatures, and I’m pretty sure that ants aren’t far behind them!
Ants aren't bees.
Not sure ants create another queen, maybe so. However, if you treat the mounds in cool and/or wet weather, they probably won't. In cool or wet weather, they are struggling to survive and using all their energy to move the mound away from the treated area.
Fire ants have evolved. If they lose a queen they just move in with another mound. The mound accepts them. You have to kill each and every one.
This warfare is like getting rid of wasps and hornets. If you kill the queen early in the spring, you're not likely to have a problem later. If you don't get the queen, the colony will keep going on.
Please share how you find and kill the queen in a wasp nest. I'm sick of battling them. I've tried hanging brown paper bags (so they think another colony is already here), I've tried soaping water, I've tried the commercial wasp sprays, etc. It knocks them back but they're still around so I obviously haven't found the queen.
@@cityofoaks From what I've heard, the queens are out early in the spring. And only the queen. Capture her.
@@dennisk5818 Oh. OK. Thank you.
This is a great product. Have used it for about 20 yrs. Did you know they can't sting 24hrs after ingesting it?
I did not. i have used it for years also.
Fire ants with crawl on your legs, but won't immediately start stinging. Once there's a couple of hundred on you, the leader blows a tiny bugle. THEN , they all start stinging at the same time.
Well, we just need to take their bugles away. Problem solved! Just kidding. My dad walked through a fire ant colony, down in Florida. His legs were covered in sting marks. Very bad.
Boy do they ever. If I had a dollar for every fire ant bite I have gotten, I would be a wealthy lady. 🐜
I moved to NM two years ago. You're absolutely correct. This is the only product that works to eliminate the colony. Great video.
I've been mixing de and come and get it together. I'm wondering if I should be doing that still or should be putting them on separately. I'm starting to think that maybe it's a bad idea to mix them
Not a good idea. DE will mess up the mode of action on the ant bait. Greg
Hey Greg will it kill other types of ants effectively as well?
It may work on others, but is specifically for fire ants
Unfortunately it is not sold in all states.
We ship to all states. Check out Hoss Tools.
How do you know that a particular ant colony is fire ants? I’m new to TX, and am starting to notice ant nests here and there around my house. Will this product control all types of ants? Isn’t there anything cheaper but as effective? Inquiring minds want to know! 🙂
So what is that stuff and where do I get it? Ferti Home? I couldn't read the bag.
growhoss.com/products/fire-ant-killer?_pos=3&_fid=6351cf88d&_ss=c&variant=45579377049910
This man speaks the truth
I'm in northern Indiana and we have ants that act a lot like fire ants size and sting/bite. They are black, though, not red.
I use a product called Amdro it is similar to the first one you described. It works within 24 hours.
It's still one of the best
That's the ticket, laddie! 🐜 💀
Hundreds of fireant colonies on my 5 acres. When I use Amdro it all disappears in an hour or two then I see a tiny sign on the mound that says SEND MORE AMDRO PLEASE. The colony gets bigger.
I use this in my Garden and Yard, it really works well.
It really does!
Majority of fire ant colonies have multiple queens. Advion Fire Ant Bait is the best.
Thank you for the helpful information!
You are so welcome!
I've used atomic weapons with some success... got most of them fire-breathin ants but still dealing with the uncles.
Actually a mound may contain as many as 20 queens.
I wanted to give this a try. Went to the links in the description and this product is not listed at the Hoss website. Where can you get it?
We are currently out of stock.
Mix borax with some grape jelly on a paper plate , the ants take it back to the nest , everyone eats , everyone dies
I use cornmeal because ants cannot burp. So they eat the corn meal and drink the water and I die.
Taking your recommendation, Greg. These South Carolina fire ants ain’t gonna know what hit ‘em. Also, double wheel hoe has been a game changer and a back saver for me. Appreciate y’all and what you do!
Thanks Jack
I tried this product in FL. Did not work
Good information - can you tell me how they know to wait for biting until at least 500 are on you and then they begin biting? Sneaky devils!
Isn't that a fact
don't get mad with me but this took me back a ways to a job I was installing for a client in Fla and they came in on a root ball on a tree i was planting and they got on me . well I had a meeting with the owner and the builder and the both arrived on site and i got off my New Holland and approached the two and right as i got close it happened ! one of the large headed red ants had hid in my shorts and to make it worse on my what you ma call it and bit into me like a pit bull catchin a hawg ! oh Hell no ! and I ran to the back yard and pulled my pants off and they were perplexed untill I showed em the culprit ! true story ! they know just when to bite you , and good !
@@harrykersey3181 you started my day with a laugh! Thanks
But did it make it bigger? Cheaper than that little blue pill 😉😁🤫😮🫡👍🙏✌️🇺🇸
When there's a sufficient number on your legs, the leader blows a tiny bugle, letting everyone know it's time to attack.
The real reason is that their legs are laying a trail of chemicals, when the concentration reaches a certain level, they know it's time to begin the attack.
Going to order some fire ant bait. I’ve tried several commercial and home remedies and they keep coming back. I’m in NE California and have lots of them. I happen to have an identical sink in my greenhouse. Came out of a commercial building we bought in 95’. The building is over 100 years old and was supposed to have been a bar downstairs and a whore house upstairs back in the day. It is a very heavy sink and took me awhile to mount it and build a base for it. Never thought I’d see another one!
Had to use the product 3 times to get rid of them.
Will this bait work for other types of ants? We have black and red ants up north, in Canada.
yes
How do colonies multiply? In other words, where and how do queens begin?
Colonies hatch out queens . Queans have wings and fly away. Where they drop is where the new colony starts
@@gardeningwithhoss kinda like honey bees? If so, I wonder if there’s a scent they favor like bees. I know that carpenter ants can scent moist wood and are attracted to it.
Thanks Grag
Ok...where do I get this? I need it bad.
www.growhoss.com
growhoss.com/products/fire-ant-killer?_pos=3&_fid=c97f30b19&_ss=c&variant=45579377049910
I purchased "Come & Get it" because of your recommendation. I followed the directions and I'm sorry to say it did not work. I have a few large hills and many small ones. Put flag stakes on those treated to return 1 1/2 weeks later without any success. Spent $27. I normally pour boiling water on the hills multiple times, looks like I'm back to the old method.
Sorry to hear that
I tried to buy the red ant granules, but your Link doesn’t work 😣?
I like Orthene for its speed - always seems to wipe out huge fire ant beds in less than 24 hrs
i hope its dog safe. I've tried all those methods . as well as making borax and sugar baits, using other store bought baits, and my most recent try was boiling lemon peels and using the liquid to pour in the beds. so far the boiled lemon peel method works well, it seems to have worked.
but I have many fire ant mounds that regularly pop up every where
We have a huge fire ant problem…but we also have chickens. Any idea on whether or not this is safe in my yard if my flock free ranges?
Please refer to the MSDS sheet and product label at the end of the product description for restrictions.
hosstools.com/products/fire-ant-killer?_pos=4&_fid=3cdb1184d&_ss=c&variant=45579377049910
Toxicity to Above Ground Organisms
Material is practically non-toxic to birds on an acute basis (LD50 > 2000 mg/kg).
Material is practically non-toxic to birds on a dietary basis (LC50 > 5000 ppm).
oral LD50, Colinus virginianus (Bobwhite quail), > 2000mg/kg bodyweight.
dietary LC50, Colinus virginianus (Bobwhite quail), 5 d, > 5253mg/kg diet.
oral LD50, Apis mellifera (bees), 48 Hour, 0.06micrograms/bee
contact LD50, Apis mellifera (bees), 48 Hour, 0.05micrograms/bee
I would not use any kind of granular bait or pestcide where my birds could get at it.
Does this stuff work on termites?
no
I need about 30 yards of that stuff! got a truck full???
Chronic exposure of adult virgin females to low doses of spinosad leads to mitochondrial defects, severe neurodegeneration, and blindness. These deleterious effects of low-dose exposures warrant rigorous investigation of its impacts on beneficial insects
Shhhhh. You people get everything that works banned.
Thank you for the info....
3, 4 or 5 couple of 3 days. 😅
What is the name of the product you use?
hosstools.com/product/fire-ant-killer/
I have used the bait, waited about 2 days then set the mound on fire so far so good. Never reoccurring mounds i have to do this mid august every year
Set it on fire? 🙄🙄
Great stuff...Now hows bout nosee ums...mosquito....omg
They just elect another queen quickly and move about 5 foot over and make another mound.
We sadly have a HUGE amount of mounds in our yardage of topsoil that was left in our backyard from when they were building our property
Otherwise this soil would be useable but one of the mounds is HALF AS TALL AS I AM. no joke. It’s like the 2.5 foot tall mound of soil is FULL of the ants
What I use is edible for everything
I hate to contradict you, Greg, but when I moved into my house over 8 years ago it didn’t take long to learn that I had a huge fire ant problem in my yard. The first time I mowed the back yard, I walked straight through a huge mound and both my legs were covered with fire ants; the pain from the stings was so bad I may as well have been on fire. Throughout my first year, I dusted about a dozen good sized mounds with DE and each time within a couple of hours, they went away. I’m assuming they died off, but all I can attest to is that the mound was rendered virtually inactive. Once in a while I’ll happen onto a new mound, but that happens less and less each year. Once I found an ant mount had grown completely over my septic aerator. I dusted it immediately and by the next day, I scooped the dirt from around and on the top of the aerator and saw not one ant. I think the trick (for me) is to excite the ant activity by running a stick over the top and sides of the mound...(this seems to bring many more ants up to the surface) and then blast them with the DE. Every time I’ve done it this way (including inside storage units where I used to work), the ants either go away or die. Not sure which it is, but so long as the conditions are absolutely dry, I’ve had great luck with DE.
I’ve seen more and more ant mounds piling up in every neighbor’s yard (they do absolutely nothing to treat their ant issues) and now it’s infested my yard front and back and I have two dogs who love to roll in the grass and nap under the tree right where we’ve had issues of them accumulating. Anyways I saw some other farmers using DE and it seemed to work for them too. I think he’s right, depending on the size, you might have to do several de treatments to kill ‘em or use what he uses and kill them the first time but I applied the de after stirring them up and they immediately freaked and almost disappeared under the dust. I’ve kept an eye out and only a few bigger ants here and there are trying to escape or it could be the ones that were already out foraging coming back to find their home covered. I’ll keep applying it till their gone, seems to be working in just hrs
What brand did you use? I bought some based on advice like this and then while reading the fine print on the back label, I noticed that it says, "kills ants (excluding fire ants)." Well, having paid for it anyways, I sprinkled it all over a bunch of mounds. A day or two later, I can see that they moved from those mounds, but set up new mounds just inches away, sometimes actually touching (adjacent to) the original (now white) mounds. I suppose I could buy another bag and keep chasing them a few inches every 2 or 3 days, but I don't have the time for that. Maybe you bought a fire-ant-specific brand?
@@cra2cra226the way the DE works is the tiny sharp granules in it put holes in the ant’s exoskeleton. Supposedly, if you put a ring around the mound, they will not walk over it and will starve. But I don’t know about other connected underground tunnels with other entrances…
Fire ants have a neurotoxin.
Thanks Hoss, do you know which works better?
Come and get it, or Come and get it ll ?
ll
i listened to all of that and he didn't tell you what it is DU down south
only live 40 miles from you ,would like to drive to your farm n purchase fireant product....how about chickens in area ???
Great info and video
Glad you liked it!
Sounds like Amdro
Tried it didn't work for me 😕