Please, no politics, but aerial capabilities are strengthening. Nuke them now.

T-TownDawgg · Mar 10, 2026

Recent rains have fire ant mounds rising up, easy to see. While dusting what seemed like a hundred today, I kicked over some mounds for reconnaissance.

Lots of eggs. A few mounds had several cadets that were just awarded wings, will take flight soon. The swarm is coming. When they take flight, a favorite target of experienced pilots is the back of your neck, and inside your shirt.

The Godfather is wrong. I’m with Pantangeli on this one.

Hugh's Burner Phone · Mar 10, 2026

Gasoline is highly effective.

Dawgbite · Mar 10, 2026

Hugh's Burner Phone said:
Gasoline is highly effective.

Just don’t set it on fire. As satisfying as it is, lighting it allows some of them to survive.

HailStout · Mar 10, 2026

I blame Obama

DesotoCountyDawg · Mar 10, 2026

Ortho ant killer power and pour a little water on to disturb the mound and put a five gallon bucket upside down on it with a brick on top. They’ll be dead within 18 hours.

OG Goat Holder · Mar 10, 2026

DesotoCountyDawg said:
Ortho ant killer power and pour a little water on to disturb the mound and put a five gallon bucket upside down on it with a brick on top. They’ll be dead within 18 hours.

That works, but in my experience, it just keeps them in check. When I lived around the Jacktown area I’ve not found anything that will eliminate the bastards. Never seen them that bad anywhere else. Some people have wasps, other nuisances, but in Skankin Rankin, is the fire ants. Every rain and they multiply.

That and yellowjackets. It’s the ground shlt around there.

HotMop · Mar 10, 2026

Dawgbite said:
Just don’t set it on fire. As satisfying as it is, lighting it allows some of them to survive.

That's why you use diesel.

Dawgbite · Mar 10, 2026

Bifen is the best thing I’ve found. One ounce per gallon mixed in a watering can will kill them in minutes and do 5-10 mounds. Mix it in a spray rig and spray the whole yard and you won’t see a fire ant for months.

patdog · Mar 10, 2026

OG Goat Holder said:
That works, but in my experience, it just keeps them in check. When I lived around the Jacktown area I’ve not found anything that will eliminate the bastards. Never seen them that bad anywhere else. Some people have wasps, other nuisances, but in Skankin Rankin, is the fire ants. Every rain and they multiply.

That and yellowjackets. It’s the ground shlt around there.

Problem is whatever you do, your neighbors ants are just going to build a mound on your property. All you can do is take Desoto’s advice and kill that mound when it pops up.

Anon2444666666 · Mar 10, 2026

it's a pain to do but hot boiling water on the mound works.

WrapItDog · Mar 10, 2026

Hugh's Burner Phone said:
Gasoline is highly effective.

40 acres and a mule · Mar 10, 2026

Dawgbite said:
Bifen is the best thing I’ve found. One ounce per gallon mixed in a watering can will kill them in minutes and do 5-10 mounds. Mix it in a spray rig and spray the whole yard and you won’t see a fire ant for months.

Or a honey bee, butterfly, or earthworm. That sounds like I am a tree hugger, but I am not. That stuff is very potent and can kill a lot of beneficial insects.

Braves Dawg · Mar 10, 2026

I have been spraying bifen on the mounds in my yard. Scruggs in Tupelo recommended this. It worked pretty well last year. I just sprayed some this past weekend.

40 acres and a mule · Mar 10, 2026

My wife is a master gardener and the MSU Extension service honcho recommends buying a broadcast type of bait. Divide your yard into thirds. Broadcast a strip in each third of your yard. Broadcast a strip of bait around Easter, July4, and Labor day. Fireants forage and will find it and take it back to their mound. We did it and it helped tremendously. Still had a few stray mounds that we had the pleasure of nuking.

patdog · Mar 10, 2026

40 acres and a mule said:
Or a honey bee, butterfly, or earthworm. That sounds like I am a tree hugger, but I am not. That stuff is very potent and can kill a lot of beneficial insects.

Yeah. Dont use that.

InTheIttaBenaHotSun · Mar 10, 2026

Broadcast Fipronil in your yard. That'll take care of just about everything including Mole Crickets.

DesotoCountyDawg · Mar 10, 2026

OG Goat Holder said:
That works, but in my experience, it just keeps them in check. When I lived around the Jacktown area I’ve not found anything that will eliminate the bastards. Never seen them that bad anywhere else. Some people have wasps, other nuisances, but in Skankin Rankin, is the fire ants. Every rain and they multiply.

That and yellowjackets. It’s the ground shlt around there.

Nothing is going to eliminate them permanently but it’s going to keep them in check.

mcdawg22 · Mar 10, 2026

I spray the whole yard with Talstar. I’ll tell
You one thing. I have never seen mounds so high as on 45 north of Citronelle.

CochiseCowbell · Mar 10, 2026

Last week, my beloved wife decided to start a random half-baked argument. Halfway through (I can only assume) the dog & I took the trash out. He thought we needed to address a small ant hill in the front lawn.

He found some random mini bottles of Apple Fireball (I think my sister left) & we sacrificed a Natty Light for the cause...onto the colony.

For 20 minutes, & a few beers, we watched intently to see if they got drunk. I asked him the next morning, but he thought the results were inconclusive.

Yet, upon re-entry she was asleep.

The dog & I shared a nod.

OG Goat Holder · Mar 11, 2026

Dawgbite said:
Bifen is the best thing I’ve found. One ounce per gallon mixed in a watering can will kill them in minutes and do 5-10 mounds. Mix it in a spray rig and spray the whole yard and you won’t see a fire ant for months.

I use Bifen but I’m careful where I spray it. It’s fine for the environment but like others have said it will kill everything. Main thing I use it for is deterrent, ie on my house.

Jeffreauxdawg · Mar 11, 2026

Dawgbite said:
Bifen is the best thing I’ve found. One ounce per gallon mixed in a watering can will kill them in minutes and do 5-10 mounds. Mix it in a spray rig and spray the whole yard and you won’t see a fire ant for months.

This. I bought a house years back with 2 acres of the most chigger and fire ant infested lawn you can imagine. A 30 gallon pull behind sprayer filled with water and 8 ounces of Bifen XTS (the concentrated version of Bifen) and it was a thermonuclear winter for ants. I applied every month or so from March to October and never had another ant, chigger, or any other ground based insect in my yard again. It even kept the mosquitos at bay for a couple of weeks.

I bet my house had 30 mounds at first application. I remember it rained really hard the next day and it washed the dead mounds away. When it quit raining, the guy down the hill had 30 new mounds and I never again had one. My neighbor started borrowing it and had the same results. But he wasn't as diligent and mounds would pop up when he skipped a month.

Colonel Angus.sixpack · Mar 11, 2026

I went scorched earth yesterday after seeing some mounds pop up. I had a little bit of mound treatment granules so I used what was left and hit them with water. Backed it up with some old sevin dust I found laying around. Finally decided to go nuclear and mixed up 2.5 oz. bifen with gallon of water. Hit the mounds, sprayed the exterior of the house and the flower beds and bushes. After this rain passes through tonight I’ll be re-applying. I don’t do business with ants, I’ll salt the earth if I have to. Also been having several lady bug infest the sunroom. They’re next

DawgNsuds · Mar 11, 2026

40 acres and a mule said:
Or a honey bee, butterfly, or earthworm. That sounds like I am a tree hugger, but I am not. That stuff is very potent and can kill a lot of beneficial insects.

2 years ago I had army worms, had to use bifen to get rid of them, taking out the ants was an added benefit.

Drebin · Mar 11, 2026

HailStout said:
I blame Obama

As you should.

Drebin · Mar 11, 2026

DesotoCountyDawg said:
Ortho ant killer power and pour a little water on to disturb the mound and put a five gallon bucket upside down on it with a brick on top. They’ll be dead within 18 hours.

But I've only got 24 five gallon buckets**

The Peeper · Mar 11, 2026

40 acres and a mule said:
My wife is a master gardener and the MSU Extension service honcho recommends buying a broadcast type of bait. Divide your yard into thirds. Broadcast a strip in each third of your yard. Broadcast a strip of bait around Easter, July4, and Labor day. Fireants forage and will find it and take it back to their mound. We did it and it helped tremendously. Still had a few stray mounds that we had the pleasure of nuking.

This is what I do every year. Broadcast over the entire yard early spring, then occasionally around the perimeter a time or two during the summer, 'no mo' ants. As a side benefit my yard and lot are surrounded by trees and highly wooded, it takes care of the ticks too. I got Ehrlichiosis from a tick bite 3 summers ago, nuclear flu is all I can describe it as. Just moving my eyes made my whole body hurt, you don't want that sh-it, I'd hate for University of Northern MS fans to get it even and that's saying a lot for me

DawgNsuds · Mar 11, 2026

The Peeper said:
This is what I do every year. Broadcast over the entire yard early spring, then occasionally around the perimeter a time or two during the summer, 'no mo' ants. As a side benefit my yard and lot are surrounded by trees and highly wooded, it takes care of the ticks too. I got Ehrlichiosis from a tick bite 3 summers ago, nuclear flu is all I can describe it as. Just moving my eyes made my whole body hurt, you don't want that sh-it, I'd hate for University of Northern MS fans to get it even and that's saying a lot for me

do you mind sharing what you used? I've used Amdro in the past but curious what others have had success with.

SanfordRJones · Mar 11, 2026

I've always had good luck with the aerosol wasp killer.

Dawgbite · Mar 11, 2026

I use a product called D- Fence Insecticide and spray around the exterior door and window facing. I spray the garage and shop with it. It will keep the Asian lady bugs out and you won’t see a spider for months.

Walkthedawg · Mar 11, 2026

I had some granules I got from a co-op one time. You just sprinkled them on a mound and the little buggers would come out, pick them up, and carry them back into the mound. Few days later the mound was dead.

I then sprinkled some on this large mound on the edge of the property. They ate a couple doses like saltwater taffy and went on about business. I thought it had lost it's potency somehow so I got on the ATV and sprinkled some on every mound I could find in the pasture.

A few days later, all of those mounds were dead. I don't know what super ants that one mound was, but im glad I didn't have a yard full of em.

The Peeper · Mar 11, 2026

DawgNsuds said:
do you mind sharing what you used? I've used Amdro in the past but curious what others have had success with.

It comes w/ some potent warnings about toxicity (its a neurotoxin) but I think more from inhaling the mist or skin contact if using a liquid version. A little goes a long way (12,500ft2 w/ a single 10lb bag which is only $10.00 I've got a decent mask I wear and a pair of scrubs w/ long sleeves I always use w/ it and then shower right away after I broadcast it just in case.

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