typically if I see ants near the home I make a mix of sugar, water, and Boric Acid and leave in bottle caps/jar lids near where I see them. Seems to address quickly.
We have tons of ant hills that have appeared in our front lawn in the last week+. What's the best management here?
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This doesn't work to effectively kill the colony, you only kill the ones visible or near the opening. Those get replaced quickly.
The best is a slow acting ant killer with a bait and a poison that will kill any ant it touches and any ant that one comes in contact with. The goal being to get as many to touch it and go back inside the colony and touch the queen.
Spread a few potato chips in a radius around the holes to see where they are moving and put the ant killer at the spots.
Look for Amdro in the Home Depot type stores. Sprinkle the granules on the hill on a dry day....them ants will be graveyard dead in 24 hours.
It only works if you kill the queen, which is luck and sometimes impossible with just boiling water.
Using the potato chips (just takes a day) and isolating ant foraging routes you can put down poison in small areas and shield it with chicken wire if you have pet/kids.
Ultimately I called in a professional. In discussions with him, he educated me that the retail insecticides do not linger as long as the professional insecticides. Professional insecticides stick a much longer half-life. Note, this is a local guy who took the time to educate me and didn't push me to more than needed or extra services, which I appreciated.
So, I paid this fellow a few hundred dollars to do my whole yard where ever he saw ant activity. He also came back and did a follow up treatment about a month later. I can say that the troublesome ant hill was effectively dead after the first treatment. The second treatment definitely finished them off. This spring, no ants in that area and very few ants around my yard.
Between my time and the cost of various insecticides I wish I had contacted him sooner. If you're in a rural area or a farmer (know a farmer) you might be able to get professional grade products (I'm not). I'm in Canada, so not sure how regulations might differ, wherever you are but best of luck!
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