Post by nina on Apr 19, 2023 10:09:16 GMT -5
I live in the South and battling fire ants is the norm, but this year the ants are taking over. I hate putting ant mound poison in the pastures but have done so with rotation. Now the ants aren't dying with mound killer. We have about 50 mounds per acre. My DH and I went around with a mini flame thrower that did in the mounds for a day. Then they came back. Where every mound was destroyed 3 more small ones popped up. Tried reheating again, and still they came back. Now I'm experimenting with other methods. I tried cooking oil and found it killed half a mound with half a bottle, too expensive solution. I also tried vinegar but have not checked that mound. Any suggestions? Is there anything in nature that eats fire ants? I saw my pony licking dirt where I think there was a poisoned mound and fear the livestock might try to eat the ant poison crumbles. On or two mounds the livestock can deal with but I'm getting over run. I noticed it's not just my property but the surrounding properties seem to have way more ant mounds than usual. We went down to 4 degrees this winter so look out yall living further North. This is not a live and let live situation. Fire ants have scarred up my legs and they are taking over grazing ground. Yesterday I was chasing a neighbor's steer that got on our property and was about to break and axil hitting the mounds. I do have one neighbor that appears not to have mounds but he also doesn't have livestock. I can't ask him what he is using.