My Fire Ant Experience

I have a pretty large area of disturbed ground, which is a prime place for fire ants to call their home. This is what I did to destroy their nest and their queen. Nothing brilliant, just what worked for me. I had mounds two years in a row and this year was the first there was no sign of the little buggers.

Materials I used:

Terro ant bait

Clear plastic

Bricks or anything that's heavy.

Placed all six of the baits around the perimeter of the nest, about 6 to 12 inches from the entryway.

Placed a sheet of clear plastic on top of the mound, covering the baits also. This was so I could keep track of what was going on. It also keeps the mound bait weatherproof. I just used some cheap painters plastic (Home Depot) and doubled it over to make it a little thicker.

Placed some brick on the plastic to keep it down and the baits from blowing away.

Kept checking and if the baits were "full," I'd replace them with another. That stuff is sticky so the ants sometimes get caught in it, can't get out, and die and clog the entry to get the poison.

The workers take it into the nest and when the queen is fed the poison, she dies and so does the rest of the nest.