subject: Ant Control (Getting Rid of Fire Ants) [print this page] Ant Control (Getting Rid of Fire Ants) Ant Control (Getting Rid of Fire Ants)
A lot of people who are having problems with ants ask how to get rid of fire ants the natural way. Well, there are a number of misinformation out in the web like pouring hot water that mixed soap and other things. These methods are not effective. They may knock down a few numbers of ants but it won't take care of them completely. It would be best to follow what the exterminators recommend.
The best way to do it is to get them feeding on something. This is going to kill them off and there are plenty of safe alternative which you can use. Boric acid is one of the very best. Boric acid is extremely safe, it's not toxic to the environment, and what happens is that they take it back, feed it to the larvae because the larvae is the food factory of the colony. The larvae digest the food and they include the byproduct which is consumed by the queen and the workers.
This is a very effective method because it will kill off the queen, the future generations, and they'll kill of the larvae which are the next generation, and they kill of the food factory of the other workers. What can be better than this? The product is also safe. Another stuff that you're going to use is a combination of things. You can use the boric acid bates and then you put down the dust. Dust from the products used by the pest control is very good and mostly botanically based.
The ants will basically walk through that dust and when they walk on that dust they will groom themselves and then they ingest it and that's going to kill off the workers. Dusts also speed the process up. And so one thing you don't want to do is that you don't want to disturb that mound. They are nocturnal creatures and the best time to see them would be before sunset. If you don't want to do it, contact a pest control exterminator and let him take care of the problem.
