mm wrote:
For the first time,I have ant hills in my yard, 3 within 10 feet of my
front door**. Is this something I don't want? I have a feeling that
I don't.

If I don't want them, is there an effective, perhaps easy way to get
rid of them?

** (or maybe one big hill with three entrances)


I've had good sucess with fire ant mounds in the yard using Beyer's Fire Ant
powder (which I bought at Lowe's). You just sprinkle a little on the mound and
then trickle a little bit of water over it. Do not drown the hill and don't
kick it either... you don't want to stir up the residents who might then move.
The idea is that the workers should track the stuff in while doing their normal
chores and take it back to the queen. When the queen dies, the colony dies.

Be on the lookout for additional mounds... there's seldom only one.

Did I mention I hate the little *******s?




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE