Update from others Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

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Update from others

Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

I have no doubt that this concoction would kill the fire ants, but

thought it was only fair to point out some of the hazards to the

ingredients.

I will give everybody just a little information on these 4 products.

1. Turpentine: It is a resin and oil from pine trees, it can cause

tissue death, damage kidneys, central nervous system depression,

headaches, nausea, and confusion. Low concentrations can irritate

eyes, nose, and throat.

2. Lysol: It contains phenols and dioxin (agent orange). It is also a

suspected carcinogen.

3. Ammonia: The vapors and liquids can be corrosive causing severe

burns and irritation to the skin, eyes, and lungs even in low

concentrations.

4. Dawn dish soap: This contains sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl

benzene sulfonate, and formaldehyde a know carcinogen.

Then there is what these things would do to the soil that it would be

used on. Because of the oil and chemicals in these products it would

be several years before it would grow anything, except maybe weeds.

During rains these chemicals would spread to the area around it, and

would then be in any foods grown in that area.

If you would like to check this information out for yourself there is

a couple of sites that I might recommend. One would be environmental

working group www.ewg.org. The

other is product matrix, and then

enter the product that you want to look up.

Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

Use boiling water. Pour 3 gal, dig down a foot or so,

pour 3 more gal.

Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

I've used cornmeal to put on fireant mounds ...it works, but of course you need

to reapply.

Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

A few comments about fire ants from doing some checking: The most common

one in the south is Quaker Quick Grits. But there's plenty of

" debunkers " . Never tried it.

I had 7 different mounds about our acre and a half and what we did was a

" shovel relay " . the three of us took a shovelfull of ants from each

mound and intermixed the ants from one mound with the next one to it. After 3

shuffles two days apart , the mounds all seem pretty much dead from the

fighting that erupted.

My Uncle was told by a man who owns an exotic farm that " Rio Birds "

eat fire ants. The guy has some on his land and has no problem anymore. They

look like small emus, about the size of a chicken with grey feathers, if I

remember right. I can't be sure of the spelling, or proper name of these birds

but maybe it will help.

Re: Garden Safe Fire Ant Killer

Use diatomaceous earth

Just put a 1/2 cup or less on top of the opening -- just make sure

it totally surrounds the opening. In about three days, the total

nest, including the queen will be GONE. This stuff consists of

prehistoric sea plankton that has been ground to an ultra fine

powder. When ants go in and out of the nest, they carry the dust. It kills them

by dehydrating them -- microscopic

particles " scratch " their hard exo-skeleton and they dry up.

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