Getting Rid of Anthills

[JimmyWeb]

Ant hills are your problem? Here's your solution, take a garden hose and put it down the top of the ant hill. Then turn it on and drown those suckers. :thumbsup:

I guess each of us experienced this problem. How do you get rid of anthills by yourself? Do you always hire a pest control company to do the job for you? I just had this problem and I paid a company to deal with the problem.

 

[Helper]

Cool yet dangerous. The kids should not be near the mound if ever we are going to try Kenny's method. The kids shouldn't even see it because they might try it themselves.

About the type of ants, I think it doesn't matter what type the ants are because the poison (or the gas explosion :biggrin will work on them.

 

[touree]

I would not think of hiring a company to do that; perhaps buy some pesticide then first deal with getting rid of the ants.

You can try a granular ant killer, or better still, mix sugar with Borax laundry detergent. The latter has boric acid which would kill the ants.

 

[adan]

I have no problem at all with black ants. But red ants of any size bother me. The only thing we did was mess up their trail every morning and afternoon consistently for around five days. They later found a new trail farther away from us. But the mound is still there. I thought that for as long as they don't bother us, we won't bother them.

 

[Honey]

We had a huge problem with ants this summer and we had good luck with dish soap and putting in in our doe jams to prevent them from coming in the house. I hate ants, they make a house look so dirty.

 

[touree]

The problem with ants is that they make a trail regardless of anyone else around them :biggrin: There is a certain species of black ants that make a hissing sound while in motion and also sting carelessly.

 

[Driller]

We had an issue with them a few years ago, but not that much the last couple of years,. We do use a pest service, however, and that keeps us in shape pretty much.

 

[grnspot110]

Pour some boiling water into the hill! It's worked for me. ~~ grnspot110