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AMDRO Ant Block - does it work
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Maybe you should work for the UN? Take a few from here and chunk them over there and let them have at it. What a concept.
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It would only work if they would all fight to the death like the ants and stupid enough to fight for a small piece of turf, a hill, to the death.
But we in the south can model geopolitical conflicts in the backyard and pasture after all most of the terrorists and politicians aren't much smarter than the fire ants.
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While I haven't used it on fire ants, I haven't seen anything that Ficam-W doesn't kill. I gave some to a friend of mine once, and he claims the neighbors cat got into it and died...
Ooops - I just found out that it's not being made anymore - see the attached link for some substitues. (Must have been too potent.)
Jason
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The AMDRO seems to have (mostly) worked. We had a bunch of ants crawling around the house foundation and into the walls (and invading the house). One day we must have killed 50 ants in the house. The AMDRO took a couple of weeks but it seems to have knocked the activity down by about 80%. Diazinon took care of the rest. No ants for a couple of weeks now.
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Diazinon is still on the market, in what form?
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When they banned Diazinon I bought a few gallons. Heck, I wish they'd bring back Chlordane - that stuff really worked!
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A neighbour of mine up at the lake had an ant problem, his land is moist and sandy and had a lot of dead trees lying around.
I had a real chuckle over his "environmentally responsible" cure.
He bought a couple of rolls of that clear shipping tape, and ranit around the foundation of his cabin, sticky side out. He tacked it in place with a staple gun, overlapping the edges and a few widths side by side.
When an ant tries to cross it it gets stuck in place and can't go any farther. When a particular area got covered he just cut it out and replaced it with some new pieces. After whole summer it was still sticky.
Best of luck.
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Murf, that sounds pretty clever. It probably wouldn't work here even if it could be stapled into the concrete foundation. There is too much dust during the summer from the gravel road. I put some of that sticky stuff on the corbel brackets around the house to keep birds from crapping on the porch and deck and it got covered with dust and lost it's stickum in about two weeks.
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I was speaking with a client today, I recalled him saying in the past that they had a ant problem because of a neighbour who had a lot of scrap wood and bark stacked up.
Although it would be tough on vegetation, his cure was to thoroughly saturate a strip of ground along the fence line with a strong CaCl mixture, like what is used on dirt roads for dust control.
He didn't do it originally as a pesticide, he wanted to stop the vegetation from growing along the fence, but soon discovered the ants wouldn't cross it either.
Sort of a scorched earth type of deal.
Best of luck.
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