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A quick Google search says fire ants have not reached Utah. Your description of multiple queens, assuming they are large and black, sounds like carpenter ants but they nest in wood. My test for fire ants is to disturb the top of the mound slightly with a stick. If the ants swarm up the stick...

It's refreshing to read something posted by someone who has done some research rather than "my cousin knows someone who...". I understand your frustration. It's not likely we'll see government-level programs that will control fire ants biologically but that's what it would take to do it that...

Cooked together with the queen fire ant in the same pot would work. Other than that, you'd be wasting your time. The fact that somebody did something with rice and fire ants disappeared doesn't prove it was the rice that did it. Keep in mind also that there are many ways you can annoy them...

And THAT is TRUE. You can annoy them enough that all several thousand of them pack up and move. You might think they're all dead, but that's only until you or your neighbor discover where they moved to. You gotta kill the queen. You get no points for any of the others. Amdro might not be...

Don't mess around. Get rid of the ants. As someone else said, Amdro (or similar) is the only thing that you can count on because you have to get the queen. Amdro is relatively harmless to chickens. I can't remember just how harmless but we used to free-range the birds and after looking into it I...