Introduction: How to Kill Fire Ants and Commit Genocide
This Instructable is a glimmer of hope for the haters of that most dastardly of ants, the FIRE ANT
Step 1: a Brief Word:
Now, before you jump to conclusions, I believe all animals have a purpose and place (generally right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy :D), however when they are no longer in this place, they no longer have purpose. Red Imported Fire Ants are an example of these rouge species (they're imported, duh). I quite personally detest the little bastards, they sting you, they destroy native habitats, they devour native species, they are a general pain, and they bite you (I might have mentioned that one already). So anyway, it is one of my life's passions to destroy as many of there kind as possible. However, I seek only to destroy fire ants, leading me to come to various means of mound specific destruction.
Step 2: Let's Get Started
One fine day I was making a vinegar and baking soda volcano. I was directed by a higher power (known simply as MUM) to set it off outside. I craftily placed it on a fire ant mound and let it rip. I was surprised at the massive mayhem and destruction it caused. Ants poured out of the mound, hoping to escape the burning acidity of the magma that rained down upon them, only to be fried by more of that unrelenting acid from hell, and my magnifying glass. Upon demonstrating this new weapon to the mighty MUM, I was commanded to go forth and destroy as many of the Mounds of the Red Infidels as possible.
Further use crafted this WMD into the form I'll show you today.
First thing you do is find you a fire ant mound, some sodium bicarbonate (baking soda jock), and the most powerful vinegar(usually 20% can be found in garden stores) you can lay thine destructive hands upon.
Weird, it won't let me add notes to my pic. Anyways, due to MUM's (and mine own) mighty wrath, all the best Mounds of the Red Infidels were destroyed before I thought to pass this information onto others. Therefore I am forced to apologise for the shrimpy mound.
Step 3: Name This Step ....... Umm Dunno, Next Step?
Generously sprinkle the mound with baking soda. If large, poke holes in the mound and fill 'em with baking soda. I haven't confirmed it, but it seems the ants don't care to much for the baking soda.
Step 4: Step... Dunno, Wasn't Keeping Count
After the mound has been treated with sodium bicarbonate, you're ready to add vinegar. Pour a generous amount of vinegar on the mound, a small mound (like the one illustrated) takes about a quart, larger ones up to a half a gallon. Watch as those filthsome and foulsome little orcses die my precious, they DIE my precious, die!!! mmmuuuhhahhahahaha!!!!. Sorry, it's just I found this ring in a hunk of volcanic rock and it's really weird what it'll get you to say...
Anyway, the ants will get fried alive as the vinegar eats away at there little exoskeletons, propelled deeper into the mound by the reacting baking soda. Not sure but it's possible they get smothered by the CO2 produced by the reaction. Either way, you'll have a mound full of dead fire ants in no time.
Excuse while I investigate the screams outside...
OMG!! GIANT KILLER FIRE ANTS??? THEY ARE COMING FOR ME!!! AAAAAGGGHHH!!! THEY BITE!!!! HELLPPPPPPPPPP!!!!! AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH gulph (assorted sounds of expiration)
live... long... and prosper... guhh ehh
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165 Comments
15 years ago on Introduction
Crikey lads..I never saw so much effort involved in killing small bugs. Ok I know we who are stranded on a western isle do not see much of the biting and stinging insects but god almighty..Its easy to kill things that are small and a waste of 100,000 years of technology and human evolution
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
Have you ever been bitten by a fire ant? Ever had them swarm up your leg and bite it till it is nothing but a pusing pustule?
IT'S REVENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
when I was 5 I took a plastic shovel to go "treasure hunting" in my woods and I accidently smacked an underground bees nest. those suckers are my worse enemies. so are wasps, sometimes they will sting for little or no reason.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
same here i hate all kinds of bees they sneak up on breaks and try to eat my chocolate today they made me shout "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" in my loudest shout
Reply 6 years ago
ok, please don't kill bee's. wasp are ok but without bee's u don't eat lol. bee's pollinate 100% of the food we eat in this country. if they die, we die, literally. so don't kill bee's lol.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
baking soda and some other stuff will help the stings, but what I wanted was revenge. thats why the best way to kill thoes bees is with liquid long range insect killer and a lighter. I find that insects arnt all that fond of fire.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
hairspray+match+flash powder=death 2 them
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
LOL!
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction
Australia has things that fire ants have nightmares about. Bulldog ants, for one.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
I had experienced that problem when I was 8, but RED ANTS! I was outside talking away with another person and soon one of my leg feels strange, but I kept on talking... Then my leg feels even MORE strange, then I finally looked at my leg and what I saw is my leg plastered in red ants... I screamed like hell and run around in my garden, it was no fun...
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
I share your suffering, now share in mine enemies DESTRUCTION!!!!
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Yes!!! They are really annoying and PAINFUL!!!
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
no my friend...
<size="3">IT IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!1!!shift!!!!111oneshift1one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</size>
i had to do it...
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
Sorry chum, html don't work here
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
[size="3"]does bbc?[/size]
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
appearantly not......
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
It's wiki formatting place a "=" at the beginning and end of th text you want big.
like this
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
ah thank you, as i was saying...
its not revenge...
=IT IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!!1one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!shift+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!1!1!!!!
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
IT IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!!1one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!shift+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!1
forgot the = at the end... lol
Reply 15 years ago on Introduction
SPAAAAAAAARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
No...no, it's not SPARTAAAAAAAAIt's...it's =OVER NINE THOUDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!=