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Ant Hills, how I hate them!!
I've a couple hills at my cottage lot, and looking for a good way to be rid of them. Any help would be great.
Everything was sorta OK 'till I moved a shed to my lot and had to dig up a bit of one hill..... Man did that piss them off, now they are running around everywhere. Help |
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07-30-2021, 03:02 PM
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Amdro works pretty well for me.
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07-30-2021, 03:09 PM
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can you sprinkle boric acid. I hear that will grind up their bodies as they walk on it and take it back to the nest.
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07-30-2021, 03:21 PM
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Was +/- on ants until a few years ago when I noticed a new-ish Swamp White Oak was growing a LOT better than others of the same age. Looked close and found a bunch of black garden ants running all over the thing. I was a bit worried but left the colony at its base alone. Well, it's still going and another colony has shown up at the base of a nearby Burr Oak. Now they are both doing too well to change anything. YMMv.
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07-30-2021, 05:41 PM
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Around here they make a huge mount with many, many, many entrances/holes. 
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07-30-2021, 05:51 PM
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+1 on Amdro but you must keep it dry.
How about an M80?
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I have a paver driveway and certain times of the year (including now) the ants build little sand hills between the pavers. I need something to sprinkle on the driveway and sweep into the crevasses between the pavers. Is the Amdro a powder?
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07-31-2021, 04:07 PM
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Get some Taurus SC. Mix it up in a backpack sprayer. Takes a week or two but will keep your yard clear of ants for a couple of months.
It works!
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Salt, I get huge piles of red, carpenter, and lovely termites this time of year...I wonder why those pest trucks are driving around at 3am in the morning....Hmmmm...drumming up some business?
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07-31-2021, 05:32 PM
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My brother just embraced the suck and buried a fifty pound bag of sugar about ten yards from his house. Claims he hasn't had any in his home for five years now.-WW
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07-31-2021, 07:21 PM
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Too bad Chlordane was outlawed...
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Amdro is granular.
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08-01-2021, 09:56 AM
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+1 on the Amdro. It takes a few days, but will wipe out the entire colony.
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08-02-2021, 08:50 AM
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08-02-2021, 01:39 PM
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Black Label
Vintage Ride.
1970 Porsche 911 S 
