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03-01-2019, 01:20 PM
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Fire Ants Everywhere!
We’re camping in mid-Florida. How do we deter (kill, avoid, co-exist with) the fire ants?
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03-01-2019, 01:26 PM
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Location: Middle GA
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Seven powder around the outside of your RV. Anything that touches the ground needs powder protecting it. https://smile.amazon.com/Garden-5-Pe.../dp/B004HVWB14
Once they are in, get Terro liquid ant baits. https://smile.amazon.com/TERRO-T300B.../dp/B00E4GACB8 These will poison the entire colony. Put a few around the inside of your RV. They will be attracted to the sweetness, take it back and share it withe the rest of the colony, and kill them all. Keep these in the RV for a few weeks to make sure they are all dead.
Lastly, make sure you don't have any vegetation touching your RV anywhere else. If so, cut the vegetation away. They use those as highways, also.
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03-01-2019, 01:50 PM
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Gold Tee Box
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDnRo
We’re camping in mid-Florida. How do we deter (kill, avoid, co-exist with) the fire ants?
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Amdro
https://www.amazon.com/Amdro-1000990.../dp/B002FYMTB2
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03-01-2019, 01:52 PM
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Always Learning
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Four Corners, FL
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We use gnarly chemical ant killer spray that attaches to a hose. We spray the ground and everything on the camper that contacts it. We wait until its dry to let the kids walk on it.
Might not be eco friendly, but eff them ants.
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03-01-2019, 02:03 PM
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Location: MN
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Move your campsite to MN. I haven't seen an ant in 4 months 
sorry, but everybody else was thinking it............
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03-01-2019, 08:53 PM
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MillMitch-I agree that up here there aren't currently any ants. But just think, in a couple of months, the state bird of both WI and MN will return. That would be the dreaded Mosquito.
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03-04-2019, 07:31 PM
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Welcome to Sunny Florida.......lol
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03-04-2019, 07:36 PM
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Avoid the mounds of sand. You have to watch where you step!
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03-04-2019, 09:21 PM
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You can never kill these things. Only relocate them. You put powder down, and it runs them off to the next site. They run them off to the next site. Pretty soon, they're back at your site. Same thing everywhere in the south. These beasts are unstoppable. So just run 'em off and keep running them off until you leave. You might win a battle or two, but you will not win the war.
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03-04-2019, 09:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MillMitch
Move your campsite to MN. I haven't seen an ant in 4 months
sorry, but everybody else was thinking it............ |
You probably havent seen the ground in 4 months lol.
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03-04-2019, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Central Alabama
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ben31
Seven powder around the outside of your RV. Anything that touches the ground needs powder protecting it. https://smile.amazon.com/Garden-5-Pe.../dp/B004HVWB14
Once they are in, get Terro liquid ant baits. https://smile.amazon.com/TERRO-T300B.../dp/B00E4GACB8 These will poison the entire colony. Put a few around the inside of your RV. They will be attracted to the sweetness, take it back and share it withe the rest of the colony, and kill them all. Keep these in the RV for a few weeks to make sure they are all dead.
Lastly, make sure you don't have any vegetation touching your RV anywhere else. If so, cut the vegetation away. They use those as highways, also. |
Ben, I never thought about the vegetation. We always spray every thing else but now will look for that as well. Thanks.
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03-04-2019, 10:43 PM
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From Texas A&M research
For an even more effective way to get rid of fire ants, drench the mounds with a citrus oil and soap solution, a combination that’s repeatedly proved effective. In controlled studies conducted by Texas A&M University entomologists, fire ant mounds still showed no activity nearly a month after the researchers had drenched the mounds with a mixture of 1 1⁄2 ounces of Medina Orange Oil, 3 ounces of Dawn liquid soap and 1 gallon of water. A compound in citrus oil, d-limonene, breaks down the ants’ exoskeletons and causes them to suffocate.
Cheap and safe
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03-05-2019, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2018
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Ortho Orthene powder. It stinks when you first put it around the mound, but they are gone by the next day.
We used to have problems with fire ants, but the last couple of years those Argentine "crazy ants" have moved in and apparently run the fire ants out. I was putting out the Bayer Advanced pellets 3 times a year until I figured out it was the same price for me to pay my pest control company to do it. Now I don't have to drive to the store, buy the stuff, put it in the spreader, etc... And it's actually $5 less per treatment that the cost of the pellets alone.
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03-09-2019, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BarabooBob
MillMitch-I agree that up here there aren't currently any ants. But just think, in a couple of months, the state bird of both WI and MN will return. That would be the dreaded Mosquito.
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They just visit WI and MN to eat and get fully grown before they go to summer in Alaska.
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03-09-2019, 02:01 PM
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Those ants will crawl up anything, including tires, to get into your rig.
In desperation as we were invaded by thousands of ants, I got out a bottle of Lysol spray and sprayed the interior of the trailer and around the tires where they were climbing aboard. It actually worked! Killed the little buggers.
Since then I've poured Lysol down a mound that was too close to the trailer and that worked too. For long term control at our storage facility, we spray Bayer Bug Barrier, but in many parks, they won't let you use that stuff because of runoff.
I usually have the Lysol spray in the rig for cleaning and now keep an extra bottle just for ants.
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03-09-2019, 02:04 PM
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You could consider one of these for a pet:
Aardvarks feed at night and subsist on ants. Would be the ultimate in "designer pets". Doubt anyone else in your neighborhood would have one.
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03-09-2019, 02:17 PM
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Hard to keep a leash on one of those!
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03-09-2019, 02:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulie1138
Hard to keep a leash on one of those!
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Just keep a jar of chocolate covered ants handy for treats and it won't wander far. 
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03-09-2019, 02:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TitanMike
You could consider one of these for a pet:
Aardvarks feed at night and subsist on ants. Would be the ultimate in "designer pets". Doubt anyone else in your neighborhood would have one.
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Good idea, can they be box trained?
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03-09-2019, 02:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by upflying
Good idea, can they be box trained?
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Maybe it will just do it's business while out feeding at night. Daytime would most likely be spent curled up behind (or on) the couch. 
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