UGH! FIRE ANTS!

[CHlCKEN]

Anyone else struggling to fight the thousands (seems like that many) fire ant mounds that seem to pop up every second? I have thrown out the poison stuff (whatever it’s called I wasn’t the one who actually was brave enough to do it) but no matter what we do they are persistent! Somehow they have decided to populate the worst places. Outside the chicken run, the front lawn to the left of where the dogs do there business, and of course, the field. We found a hoof print in a fire ant mound right after seeing my mare do an interpretative dance- probably being bitten by a troop of those little devils. Anyone else fed up with them? It seems this is the only time of year they really make an entrance- September. If you live somewhere where you don’t have the, take a minute and PRAISE THE LORD- FIRE ANTS ARE AWFUL! I was just bitten by one a couple hours ago- I don’t even know where it came from! Not a super painful bite, but very itchy!

How have the fire ants affected you? Personally they ruin everything and they should all just die, but in a more realistic stand point, how do you manage your numbers!!! The poison does ok for killing the mounds, but new ones just pop up all the time in their place!

 

[Rldad1]

I use Orthene and it destroys the nest in 24 hours. However, you get reinfested from your neighbors. I go around and try to find every mound I can and treat it. This time of year, after a heavy rain, the mound is built up. It always was there but you did not see it as it was below ground.

 

[CHlCKEN]

I use Orthene and it destroys the nest in 24 hours. However, you get reinfested from your neighbors. I go around and try to find every mound I can and treat it. This time of year, after a heavy rain, the mound is built up. It always was there but you did not see it as it was below ground.

Yes. Not sure what we use since I don’t do it myself, but it seems that it rains a lot in September here, so that’s when they ALL make their entrance. It’s not easy to dust them all because we have a 3-4 acre field and there’s no way we would be able to find all of them. Plus they live in the front yard and little fields so there are waaaaaaay to many to dust!