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Quick ant hill resolution
Posted on 3/22/26 at 6:33 am
Posted on 3/22/26 at 6:33 am
Have a few spots in my yard that ants love to make piles on - right up against bricks and other structures.
I've tried various powders that you pour onto the hill, around the hill, or around the perimeter of the home.
Nothing has been extremely effective and it takes a couple weeks to know if it even works. And they come right back a few weeks later anyway.
Could I just pour a bit of lighter fluid in each pile and light it? And then shovel up the dirt.
I've tried various powders that you pour onto the hill, around the hill, or around the perimeter of the home.
Nothing has been extremely effective and it takes a couple weeks to know if it even works. And they come right back a few weeks later anyway.
Could I just pour a bit of lighter fluid in each pile and light it? And then shovel up the dirt.
This post was edited on 3/22/26 at 6:34 am
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Posted on 3/22/26 at 7:06 am to BurningHeart
Take a scoop from each hill and put it on the other hills. They kill themselves.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 7:06 am to BurningHeart
Sounds like a cool experiment but if you don’t burn the queen, it’ll keep on keeping on.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 7:53 am to BurningHeart
Taurus SC is a liquid pesticide that will take care of them for a long time
Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:42 am to BurningHeart
Amdro seems to take a couple of days but works.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:56 am to BurningHeart
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it takes a couple weeks to know if it even works
Orthene works overnight for me. I won't get another one for over a month or two.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 10:20 am to BurningHeart
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Could I just pour a bit of lighter fluid in each pile and light it? And then shovel up the dirt.
I think this would be fun….but not very effective, because it would take gallons of lighter fluid to do and you couldn’t get all of the fluid to burn off without a whole bunch of stirring.
What I do is get some liquid spray meant for a garden sprayer. I mix the maximum dosage up in a bucket of water and use as a drench.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 10:37 am to Spankum
Bifenthrin
Posted on 3/22/26 at 10:46 am to Spankum
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I think this would be fun….but not very effective, because it would take gallons of lighter fluid to do and you couldn’t get all of the fluid to burn off without a whole bunch of stirring
I'm thinking of making a few deep holes with an iron rod to open up the passages to the queen, hitting each hole with the lighter fluid, and then lighting.
Will give it a go and if it doesnt prove fruitful will go the chemical route
Posted on 3/22/26 at 12:44 pm to BurningHeart
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BurningHeart
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hitting each hole with the lighter fluid, and then lighting.
Name checks out!
Posted on 3/22/26 at 2:59 pm to BurningHeart
Molten Aluminum
Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:35 pm to deeprig9
I have poured boiling water on a few in my garden beds I didn’t want to put pesticides in. It works fairly well. The crazy thing is the next day all the dead ants were on the surface of the hill. They carried the dead out to the surface. I did this 3 or 4 times and then shoveled the hill into a bucket and dumped it elsewhere. Lot of work but seemed to work ok.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 6:42 am to GeeMan
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Taurus SC is a liquid pesticide that will take care of them for a long time
Yep, this is the correct answer.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 8:33 am to BurningHeart
I have always had great results with this stuff. I like to disturb the mound so they all surface. Then I sprinkle it on top of them and around the perimeter of the mound. Usually within a day the mound is dead.
Taurus SC (fipronil) is great stuff also! I use it around my house twice a year. But it is not a quick kill. Great long term control.
This post was edited on 3/23/26 at 8:34 am
Posted on 3/23/26 at 10:08 am to BurningHeart
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right up against bricks and other structures.
Could I just pour a bit of lighter fluid in each pile and light it?
You trying to get someone to start a thread on H&G asking how much you can expect your fire department bill to be
Posted on 3/23/26 at 3:23 pm to BurningHeart
Bifen is the long term (6 month) answer
Posted on 3/23/26 at 6:00 pm to BurningHeart
Collect your urine for a few days in large plastic drink bottles. Poke holes in the ant piles and pour the urine into them. 
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