How to get rid of a huge anthill?
Question:ok, so we have a massive anthill fairly close to my front door and i would like to get ride of it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do it, preferably without using pesticides. thanks. <><
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I squirted environmentally safe dish washing liquid all over an ant hill. Then I flooded it with water from the garden hose. Took a shovel and stirred it all. It became thick soapy mud. I had to do it twice, but the anthill was gone.
The best is liquid seven, available at any home depot. Other than that, try vinegar, applied liberally, several times a day. Regards-Bob. Also, try Borax powder, available at any supermarket, full strength, several times.
This may kill the grass or surrounding plants, but you can pour scalding hot water into the hole and then flatten it out and it should kill all the ants in the connecting tunnels.
bomb it
Chickens like ants, get some chickens and let them run around your yard.
You have to kill the queen ant and she never comes to where these topical treatments can reach her. It would take a lot of boiling water!
Borax might work if you mix it with the ant's preferred food. If these are biting ants, they are meat eaters, mix the borax with peanutbutter or bacon grease. Problem is where to put it so your pets don't find it. I'd say a deep jar, deeper than the dog's tongue. If the ants are sugar eaters, the mix the borax with a syrup mixture, saturate cotton balls and put them into the jar. In theory the ants will take the food back to the queen.
Personally, I believe in Amdro. It works well and quickly. Yes, it is a pesticide specifically designed for ants, where as Sevin and other pesticides are more general and may not work well with all insects. With Amdro the colony is dead, dead, dead.
get an M-80 from the Indian firework stand. (or 10) dig into the top of the ant hill and lite the m80 and toss it in, cover it up really quick so it shocks down into the hill. repeat as necessary.
Also, ants hate cinnamon. just start sprinkling some on the hill, maybe they will leave.
There are some natural things that might help, depending on the type of ants they are. You might search (natural ant controls) and find some information on what they are and in what way they affect the ants. One site I found said cornmeal and corn grits are affective. Check out: http://www.dirtdoctor.com/view_question.
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