re: To kill fire ants - tonight is the night...

I hear regular gas kills the quicker the E85

If that doesn't work, I'll do it twice. That method is undefeated.

Best thing, put some styrofoam in a mason jar, add some diesel. Light on fire. Homemade napalm.

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I've read on here that you can shovel one any pile on top of another and they will kill each other


Or create a super strong genetically superior race of ants that will eventually take over your yard.

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I've done this about 4 times over the past decade or so; it actually works really well (and no, you don't get super-ants from it). The key is to make sure they are different mounds, different queens.

Fire ants are programmed to kill "other" queens, so they can take over the mound for their own queen. So if you scoop a big chunk off of two separate mounds and dump them on the other, the ants from the shovel will go down and kill the queen (you have to scoop off big chunks, to really disrupt the mound and destroy the defenses; and also to provide a large enough attack force to make it to the queen and larvae).

The soldier ants don't reproduce and don't live long, so once the queen is dead, the mound is toast.

I soak em with a lil gass come back and light em lighting burns off excess and ya grass grows back fast. If ya dont light em ya got a dead spot for months.