Does this product kill fire ants?
1811964
Hello, the cedarcide products are great at killing a wide variety of pests and insects, which should include fire ants.
1811965
Hey! I've been fighting 10 acres of fireants at my outdoor concert facility. Yes it killed/moved the ants fairly well however treating 3-500 mounds several times a year would have been insanely expensive. The most effective cost efficient method has come down to poke a hole in the mound as deep as you can. Pour a dribble of gasoline into the hole. Kill the queen and the mound is done. Miss her and there's a new mound. Estimate 80/90% effective. Yeah yeah... Not eco correct but 5 gallons a year verses a couple hundred lbs. of approved poison... Seems better to me.
1811966
I have used this product to keep fier ants from starting in the yard but not once they have placed a nest. I would use bug be gone granuals and then wait 3 weeks and spray this product out. It is great for fly's nats and beetals. I did not have fier ants all year wile I was using this product or any other bug for that matter. I live in georgia where there are a lot of ants so I would think I does help keep them down. Best to use this treatment when it is about to rain or turn the sprinkler on after putting in the yard.
995578
Jay, After reviewing the label, it appears the recommended method of treating fireants is to both drench and broadcast spray. In other words, if you just broadcast spray, I don't think it will kill established nests so its important to do both. In fact that's been our experience afield. Basically just spraying will only push the existing mounds around unless you drench each one prior to the spraying. Now once you have control on the property, broadcast spraying will prevent new nests from forming but if this is your initial treatment, drenching first will be needed. So for fire ants, the label reads 1 teaspoon per 1-2 gallons of water used as a drench for every mound you need to treat. Next, for broadcast spraying, it says 1/2 to 1 oz per 1000 sq/ft of turf. That adds up to 22-44 oz per acre. Cheers, Jonathan Customer Care U-Spray Bugspray
1762153
You only use this product for ants when they are underground. Try googling killing sugur ants, that may help
1096684
yes it does kill carpenter ants. I used it for termites and it is a terrific product. The ants will carry the foam backto the nest where it will kill all that come in contact with it.
691865
It's possible, this poison, dries them out from the inside. If the ants eat it or get it on them, it should kill them. If you spread it around their nest that should help but keep it away from animals and children. I spread it in the backs of cupboards and underneath drawers.
2112428
When I lived in Florida I tried it with no luck. For the fire ants I used diazinon. The diazinon had to be repeatedly treated to control the population of fire ants.
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From the product's website: What it Controls Insects: Kills: Ants (including Argentine, Carpenter, Foraging Fire Ants, Lawn, Pavement, Pharaoh, Pyramid, and Red/Western Harvester), Beetles (including Asian Lady, Carpet, Japanese (adults)), Centipedes, Cockroaches (including American, Asian, and German), Earwigs, Fleas, Millipedes, Scorpions, Silverfish, Spiders (including black widow, brown recluse, hobo and wolf), Ticks.
1666124
So you have fire ants. To limit the disturbance of the ant hill, I always spray (plenty) in a circle AROUND the hill. I don't spray it directly on the hill. You know there are other products made specifically for fire ants.
2046655
Not sure what type off ants you have.I have successfully used the product on carpenter ants, sugar ants, black ants.seems to kill most ants.
1706823
Hopefully this isn't too late to be useful. Use 12ml for fire ants in 1 gallon of water in hand sprayer.
2182559
It works great on fire ants, when you top dress the ant mound. As for being garden-safe, if you are growing vegetables in the garden, be careful to not put it on the vegetable plants themselves. I am pretty sure it would not be good for you, and might leave residual on your vegetables. If you are growing a flowering garden, it has not seemed to damage any plants I put it near.
1654102
Yes and no... Ants that I sprayed it on (concrete patio, mossy dirt) died, and any that approached the area were repelled -- *but* I suspect they drowned, and even a little water washed the repellant away. Definitely not as good as the natural/safe sprays by the "Hot Shot" or "Safer" brands.
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FC Ant Killer is what I used. The add for it does in fact identify carpenter ants as one of the targeted species. I was getting some ants inside so I did some baiting indoors. However I noticed when I left my grill cover on the raised wood deck for a few days there were a number of carpenter ants hiding under it when I lifted it up. I treated that area and squirt some on the ground through the deck slats and recovered the area with the grill cover for 3 days (treating one additional time). Ants have disappeared.
2112427
ants eat two types of food, sweet and greasy. lucky for you fire ants eat anything they can get their hands on. they especially love liquids because that what larvae it. so in theory this should work.
1497065
I've used it several times on fire ant mounds, it seems to be pretty effective,, whether it's more effective than some of the other products intended solely for that purpose remains unclear. I will say this though we had an issue with carpenter ants in our house that were almost impossible to stop , even our pest control company couldn't put a stop to the ants. Since I started spraying the Demon product pretty heavy around the perimeter 3 or 4 times a year we no longer have them inside the house.
1124447
Fire Ants cannot be controlled with liquid insecticides. I tried for years. I now have them under control using AMDRO Fire Ant bait that is labled to kill the queen. It comes in a black 15 pound bag available at Lowe's. Sprinkle two tablespoons around each nest, or, if it is a small yard use as the lable directs. It takes a week or 10 days to kill the nest AND QUEEN. It must be slow kill to get the queen, for otherwise the nest's queens will just move over and begin other nests. Workers only live 34 days anyway. To kill fleas, you must both kill the active fleas and the flea larvae. Many insecticides will kill the adult fleas, but the larvae take a special insecticide like Precor. Just killing the adults will not solve the problem, for the larvae hatch to begin the cycle over again.
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I wouldn't think so. It comes out in a globby gel and I don't know how well it would break down in water, or or if it would be effective when diluted. This doesn't kill the ants immediately; the ants take this back to their nests.