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Default Killing fire ant colony under house - concrete slab so no crawl space

On Dec 16, 10:35*am, "dadiOH" wrote:
gpsman wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:37 am,
(frits@scottsmiraclegro) wrote:
responding
tohttp://www.homeownershub.com/maintenance/Killing-fire-ant-colony-unde...
wrote:


Recommend trying Ortho Home Defense Max Indoor and Perimeter, which
is
labeled for
fire ants.


Seems not.


qWhat it Controls
Insects: Kills Roaches, Ants,


A fire ant is still an ant.


To those who know nothing or less about ants.
http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/articles/tf0053.aspx

And I stand corrected, kind of.

While Ortho Home Defense Max Indoor and Perimeter is not specifically
labeled for fire ants, its active ingredient, Bifenthrin, is, but I
wouldn't recommend their 0.05% concentration.
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- gpsman