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03-11-2019, 09:54 AM
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Thanks everyone. Visited a hardware store and equipped ourselves for battle. We won.
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03-11-2019, 08:38 PM
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Now a "Top Member"
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Originally Posted by BigDnRo
Thanks everyone. Visited a hardware store and equipped ourselves for battle. We won.
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Hah! That's what they want you to believe. You will never win. You may delay the battle, but you will never win the war.
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03-13-2019, 08:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jvalich
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.
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I would prefer this method and flagged it for our return trip in the fall.
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03-14-2019, 11:16 AM
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Killing the nearest mound will not keep the ants out of your RV. You need to create, and keep up, a barrier. You can run all over the campground and kill mounds and you will still get ants, unless you do this.
BTW, it is MUCH easier to keep them out than to get rid of them, once they are in.
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03-29-2019, 01:01 PM
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Senior Member
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BigDnRo - did you solve your problem??
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03-08-2020, 08:17 PM
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Just Don't!
People, Please...."non-eco" solutions are not solutions!! Do you not understand that killing these ants are also killing our good insects??? You need to use organic, natural solutions, or solutions that target the targeted insect. If you dont, you are killing bees, worms, dragonflies, butterflies, lightning bugs, beetles and even frogs! The chemicals also go into our waters. Do you want to fish, and actually eat the fish you catch?? Guess not, because all of these chemicals will end up in our waterways. Besides that, we need these beings to protect against other insects, to help decompose our fields and to pollinate our crops. Without them, our planet is doomed. I have lived full time in Florida for over 16 years and have only been bit a couple of times by fire ants. Yes, they are painful, but I have figured out how to combat them without invasive chemicals. I can't stand the idea that these "campers", that I will be camping with, are willing to spread these type of chemicals around the places I will be camping.
What about my animals and the animals that live around the area??
Please educate yourselves, before you drop the proverbial A Bomb!
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03-08-2020, 10:37 PM
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Please share your non chemical method that works so other can benefit??
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03-08-2020, 11:25 PM
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Location: North Alabama
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Orthene works for me. It may just run them deeper, or make them move but they'll be gone from the immediate area for a couple months. I got ready to leave one campground last summer and the things were INSIDE my progressive 50 ems. I had it plugged into a 50 amp pedestal and when I unplugged my shore power cord from my ems, they just came boiling out the receptacle holes. I had to disassemble it and clean the darn things out of it before I could store it away. Must have been thousands in it. At Gulf State park, I sprinkle it all around my campsite, anywhere I see the tiniest little mound. Around my tires and anywhere a power cord or hose touches the ground.
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03-09-2020, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jvalich View Post
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
Here's one KSH, and there are plenty more. Google it. Using "bait" is good, because the ants treat it as food and take it back into the nest and it will eventually reach the queen, but you've got to have some time, so it would probably not help during a few days of camping.
"Nonsense" you say? Guess you don't care that much about our (your) environment. Sorry I offended your sensiblilities, but nothing I spoke of is "nonsense".
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03-09-2020, 05:45 PM
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Location: Tampa Bay area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jvalich
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.
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Totally interested here - I use Advion in my yard which is a baited poison & have used all the dusts everyone speaks of when camping but usually just pour dawn on my ground hoses & around tires.
When using the mixture above is that suggesting a gallon / mound? Getting ready to do my yard & there are probably at least 50 small mounds out there (on only an acre). Anyone actually used this method?
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03-09-2020, 06:41 PM
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We always have an aerosol can of RAID! for small jobs, and a gallon of Ortho Home Defense for bigger jobs. I also just threw in a can of wasp spray as they are starting to show up now. It's amazing how fast they can build nests!
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03-09-2020, 07:10 PM
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Location: Northern NJ
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Geeze, I read stuff like this and think maybe NJ ain't so bad!
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03-09-2020, 07:41 PM
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If i traveled to areas with fire ants i think id just replace me departed dog with an Aardvark. They're kind of cute and suck up ants by the thousands.[emoji16][emoji16][emoji41]
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03-09-2020, 07:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowrideHD
Orthene works for me. It may just run them deeper, or make them move but they'll be gone from the immediate area for a couple months.
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3x. I still carry raid to spray jacks etc but since moving south i keep a bottle of orthene in RV.
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03-09-2020, 08:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NJKris
Geeze, I read stuff like this and think maybe NJ ain't so bad!
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Are you sure you want to go out on that limb
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03-09-2020, 10:49 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Full Timer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jvalich
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.
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Can you link to that? When I went looking all I could find was info about insecticides.
https://fireant.tamu.edu/controlmethods/
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03-09-2020, 11:47 PM
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Location: TEXAS
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If you have time and want to put out the effort to replentish it when it gets wet, diatomaceous earth kills anything that crawls over it eventually.... even our nasty fireants. It's non toxic pest control that was used in flea powder to kill fleas on pets.
In a pinch, any type of liquid dishwashing soap discourages pest. We've put it around the tires, posts, and on hoses and cords coming into the rig. If you have the orange oil, even better.
But if we're camped on a concrete pad, we'll bring out the Raid Bug Barrier to discourage the little buggers.
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03-10-2020, 10:30 AM
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Is that the same stuff we use in pools? Sounds familiar for some reason.
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03-10-2020, 11:21 AM
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Location: North of Seattle, WA
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Originally Posted by KSH
Is that the same stuff we use in pools? Sounds familiar for some reason.
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Probably the same although it's form might be different.
The new trend to "bug control" is to no longer use poisons on them that attack their nervous systems but rather spread stuff they will ingest that plugs their digestive tracks. In other words instead of killing their brains they kill them through "constipation"
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06-08-2020, 12:38 PM
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I don't know about fire ants, but in many parts of Alabama they were all starved out by the sugar ants, I believe they are also called pharaoh ants. They were imported and are so prolific they consume all food sources other ants used to live off of. They are also so small they can't be kept out of anything, and I do mean anything. I've had them get into sealed jars of peanut butter.
I found this stuff in a tube called Optigard Ant Gel Bait, it comes in a syringe, you squirt a little of this jelly where you see them and it's like the nuclear option for them. I mean it kills them all, immediately. This stuff is so lethal I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use it if you have a pet. For that matter is says to keep away fro Children so I'm pretty sure it's bad, but for ants it's like Crack Cocaine with a 100% kill rate.
You can thank me later.
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