Killing fire ant colony under house - concrete slab so no crawl space

Dec 15, 2010 41 Replies

Our bug guy came out yesterday and sprayed a chemical around the pipes in t= he kitchen and both bathrooms that will pretty much kill the ants on contac= t. The sand traps still have Termidor which will hopefully keep them at ba= y there, but we'll see if this along with some extra bait along side the ho= use will work.

The bug guy did suggest that when the weather gets to the 70's and 80' to p= ut some potato chips on the ground around the house and see if the ants com= e out to forge. If so put some Amdro around the area and see if they pick = that up to carry back to the nest. If we can definitively get some of that= to the queen(s) that should hopefully knock out the colony.

But thus far we're seeing fewer and fewer ants each week, so hopefully the = spray he put down yesterday will help keep them at bay for the time being a= nyway.

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