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Kill AntBeds for GOOD!

video Kill AntBeds for GOOD!

This technique shows you how to kill and antbed and keep ants from making beds on your lawn. VERY EASY!

20 comments

Jul 16, 2011. 1:17 PMhowgetridofants.org says:

Any chance to survive lol

May 20, 2011. 7:13 PMhug me and die says:

house woud blo up(if it was in your backyard or something:-|)

Oct 22, 2010. 5:17 AMjbyrns1993 says:

Or you could just set an m80 in the ant hill and remotely detonate it. BOOM. All gone. But then you'll have to fill in a crater.

Nov 13, 2010. 5:55 AMducktape.mac says:

another bad thing about that is that ants will fly everywhere, and possibly on you.

Jan 9, 2011. 8:52 AMTehMessiah says:

if you were to be in the explosions range......

Oct 18, 2010. 6:48 PMdragonfly_blue says:

I worked extremely hard on the last shot for Mort's Rugrat Orphanage in Uptown Minneapolis, and honestly they are all usually really nice around there, but then THAT GUY has to swipe a copy of the build scripts, which are ALL wrong, and now it's just a celebration featuring "the death of anotha brotha" if you can even stomach that approach.

I love you guys a lot but we can still hear you when you jabber, and you couldn't be any less coordinated in our not very humble opinions. Even if you poke out your eye, consequences will never be the same, so be CAREFUL out there.

Aug 12, 2010. 10:02 AMsukinmaru says:

I use Malathion. They are dead within the day.

Nov 12, 2009. 12:45 AMghostgoose says:

Wow, thats a great idea!

I would of never thought of it myself.
Thanks

Jul 27, 2009. 10:42 AMTransquesta says:

Another idea comes from an old Seminole legend: take a shovel-full of dirt/ants from one colony and dump it onto another, unrelated colony. Do the same in reverse. (This will either take two people or one person with two buckets. :-) ) Being that ants--fire ants especially--are extremely territorial, the object here is to get the ants to kill each other.

Jan 3, 2009. 7:01 PMhammer9876 says:

Perfect! I dislike the poisons, but hate the fire ants. I have had good luck with plain boiling water poured directly on the mound (several applications) but I could just see clumsy me burning myself one day. Your solution is so simple and elegant! Thank you!

Nov 25, 2008. 5:53 PMCaseyCase says:

Very clever!

Nov 19, 2008. 11:28 PMblugyblug says:

xD TRAPSSS

Oct 29, 2008. 8:59 PMdealydoo says:

sweet

Oct 11, 2008. 1:39 PMSuperTails says:

That's really claver and ironic. You're using the thing that keeps them alive to kill them. Ants are meant to be aggressive and attack anything and everything in sight, that how they feed and protect themselves but I never thought of using that against them. Ants will find openings in any enemy and try to kill it from the inside out so it's a really claver idea.