Any ideas on how to get rid of ant hills in the lawn? This year my Mom and I both have really bumpy lawns, and we both seem to have been overrun with ants. I would like to be as natural as possible. I have tried hot water but they just seemed to come back.
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Try hot soapy water. Dish wash soap works.
Sharon Martin
Canada
Pour aspertame down the ant hills. Ant's hate the stuff and it should get rid of them.
Put your used coffee grounds on the ant hills and they will leave.
Have i the answer for you. All those empty plastic bottle tops will come in handy with this recipe.
In a bowl mix equal parts of baking soda and icing sugar.
I have had real good luck with corn meal. Just sprinkle it around the mound and they eat it. Then they get liquid which swells the cornmeal and they die. Good Luck.
I use cleanser, like Comet or Ajax. Sprinkle it around the hole.
Hate to say it and obviously ya gotta be super careful, but I about broke my back and killed myself trying to get rid of orange Pharoah ants and NOTHING WORKED until my father in law said GAS.. Use it sparingly, drops at a time literally, and a few hours later I go back and rinse with clear water but YEP gasoline will kill any ant.. (outside only of course!!)
Hate to say it and obviously ya gotta be super careful, but I about broke my back and killed myself trying to get rid of orange Pharoah ants and NOTHING WORKED until my father in law said GAS.. Use it sparingly, drops at a time literally, and a few hours later I go back and rinse with clear water but YEP gasoline will kill any ant.. (outside only of course!!)
I tried everything: bleach, ammonia full strength. They disappeared and came back again. However, I tried full strength white vinegar. The haven't returned. It has been years now.
As I read this, i decided to try it,as nothing else worked. My husband poured almost a gallon of pure vinegar on an extremely large ant hill and it didn't phase them one bit !
Try boiling water instead. I do this on my sidewalk cracks where the ants nest. I usually do it twice and they are gone. A large anthill might take several times.
Give grits a try. Wait for a day that it won't rain. Sprinkle dry grits around the ant hill. The worker ants will come out, and take this to their queen as food. She will consume the grits, they will swell, and she will die. No queen, no workers.
Hope this helps.
Karen
shovel one ant hill on another. they will fight to the death to defend their queen. enjoy the war......
A product called Amdro, sprinkled according to directions on label around each mound. Another product from Gardens Alive garden supplies online, called pic liquid ant killer. You drop these products in line of active ants, work perfectly and in the same manner. Each one is eaten or carried back to the queen(s) by the worker ants. Within a few days, (be very patient),the queen dies and the whole colony is destroyed, never to return. Unless you miss a mound, or stir the ants up first with a board or stick and scatter a few that may start another colony in a new location.
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