Ok, I had 4 Rough Harvester ant mounds in my yard. I've tried twice before to kill them. This time I bought the product shown in this video. The ants were dead in 24-48 hours. The colonies were about 6 years old. AMAZING product! Thanks!
My ants just relocate 12 inches away when I use this product. Still hasn’t killed them, just makes them abandon the mound, and rebuild right beside it.
I intend to make videos about those subjects after the growing season ends to help gardeners prepare for the new growing season over the winter when content is difficult to come across since so little is growing. I'll definitely want to touch on those subjects, especially once the seed catalogs start coming in.
Rather than a product, what about the active ingredient? I'm in Aussie, and tree ants (weaver/green ants ) are a huge problem in the tropics. We don't have the same brands as America. I have found Fipronil used in dog and cat tick gels is deadly awesome. Mix a tube of dog tick thingie, with whatever the target ant eats ... I did an entire Mango tree I couldn't climb within 24hrs. Just a few teaspoons of the tick treatment mixed with a half small tin of sardines. Armageddon for green ants. Mangoes are important in my neck of the bush : )
@@ooohlaa13 Sometimes it has to be done. I don't use pesticides around my beehives, but there are times where it needs to be done or I'll lose the colony
Going to pick this up today! Can’t wait to try it! I have a few ant colony in my backyard I live in the desert so I have different problems. Hope it works!
Ouch that is bad advice. The poison kills the soil microbes that trees need to get the nutrient they needed. The soil microbes provide those nutrients. Please do a bit of research. The poison approach is a downward spiral to ever worse problems.
well it may not harm the tree but does it transfer into the fruit in some way systemically? Playing with poison ammunition can boomerang in some situations you land up eating it!!! V scary!@@2MinuteGardenTips
If they were in the center of my yard where it's clay and they aerate that would be one thing, but they are all on the sides of my foundation. Going to try this asap
This video just came up on my feed. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been loading the fire ant beds down with Amdro, needlessly wasting it. Will use your tips from now on. It was getting really expensive!!!
Thank you. What do you suggest if I have a whole acre of yard with nothing but ant hills? Every inch is nest. Sandy soil with scarce grass bc of sandy soil. Thank you. New sub’r here. 👍🏻
what about the toxicity to other animals and getting it on your shoes and spreading it inside, etc. Same problem here in NC Florida but reluctant to bring heavy pesticide guns onto my property, lots of wildlife here and my own fur babies.@@tbirdsdign
Is it ok to sprinkle where I see a line or worker ants? Because I dont know where their colony is. It is probably under my cement slabs in the garden since I always see tons of ants come up when I flood the cement area.
It's worth a try. I would probably place it as a small pile in their walking path and see how they react. Worst case, they won't do anything. Best case, they'll start carrying it back to the colony.
I’m in the high desert of Texas and ants got into my water well and blew the connection. After that, I noticed them all in and outside my greenhouse. I took baking soda and sprinkled it all over and they were gone that same day. Then I sprinkled it all around and inside my well house and I don’t see them in there. These are big blackish ants. Not fire ants. Good luck.
Dumb question, because I know you probably wouldn't promote it if it was, but is it harmful to plants? I have a fire ant bed at the base of 1 of my pear trees, but am worried about putting anything on them because I don't want to hurt my tree. TIA
I can't imagine these granules being attractive to birds, but these granules should be target-placed right up against ant hills. Chances are, you won't have ant hills directly underneath your bird feeders.
Brutal! I had a colony of ants in the garden this year but they didn't do much damage. I saw them on some blackberries but I didn't see aphids either so I let it be. I hope that doesn't bite me in the ass next year. lol
Ants in the garden, in my opinion, is never a good sign. They're up to something, even if you can't see it. It's always best to dispose of the colony, in my experience. I really dislike killing anything - I don't even like killing spiders and usually try to catch them and bring them outside when they're in the house - but I have lost so many fruits to ants over the years, and I've been bitten by so many ants since moving here, that I make an exception for those little devils.
I've heard they're pretty bad in Texas, too. Maybe even worse. Here, we have more biting ants than I can count. This stuff has really made the problem go away. I used to try and get by spreading bifenthrin granules in the lawn, and I still do that, but this bait product really made all the difference.
You will never be able to keep away all ants. They literally outnumber human beings millions to one. It's your job as a land owner to perform a walkthrough of your land on a regular basis and look for them. This will kill the ant hills. It will not prevent other ants from finding your yard and taking up residence.
I have a fire ant mound in the corner of one of my raised beds. I use Andro fire ant killer (a white powder) on mounds in my lawn, but I’ve been afraid to use it where I grow vegetables. The product you showed is granular. Is it a different formula or should I not use it around vegetables?
Amdro products are not recommended for vegetable gardens. It's better to use ant bait with spinosad as the active ingredient which is safe for vegetables.
The active ingredient is Hydramethylnon. Here is the EPA fact sheet on the product: www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/reregistration/fs_PC-118401_1-Sep-98.pdf This is what the EPA has to say: "The use on rangelands or pastures primarily for Imported Fire ant control, is considered to be a food use and established tolerances are cited in 40 CFR Section 180.395. Hydramethylnon completely metabolizes within the body of foraging ruminants so there is an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for meat, milk, and meat byproducts." In short, it's approved for use on land that cattle forage on, so it's not considered harmful to cattle and most mammals. This is not a product I would want to use in my garden in terms of broadcast spreading. However, last year, I did have a couple ant hills in between my raised beds, and I used a teaspoon of this product or less, and that quickly eradicated the problem. I also used a small sprinkle of this product inside my fig tree containers. The concern with this product isn't making food toxic to humans, but rather you could harm the beneficial insects in your soil. I would strongly discourage any kind of "broadcast spreading" of this product in your garden, for certain. If you needed to spot treat one location with a teaspoon as a one time thing, that is likely of very limited concern. If this is an ongoing problem and you need to do this with any kind of frequency, you should only use products that use natural pyrethrin/pyrethrum and spinosad.
@@matwick53 I tend to agree with this. If you need to spot treat one or two ant hills with a small sprinkle, I wouldn't be afraid of this product, but if your garden has an "ant problem" and hills are a frequent occurrence, this is not a product designed for direct use in the garden. I would use an organic solution for recurring problems, or problems that require more than a teaspoon or two's use.
Oh do we have fireants! They are everywhere! Nothing like picking peas while you discover you are standing on an any hill! I use the Amdro bait and also Agrisupply carries a liquid called Bifenthrin that must be drenched or sprayed that kills them. The issue with ants, is that if you don't get the queen they will just move over twenty feet and start another hill.
When I moved onto my property, the ants were horrible. Terrible! But I learned two things: 1. They are attracted to sand. Initially, my lot was clear-cut and just had some sod on it, so the ground was in bad shape. Very sandy, little organic matter. Since I've cared for my lawn and I'm converting so much of my land into rich, loamy dirt thanks to trucking in so much organic matter, there isn't much sand left for the ants to occupy. 2. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Spread bifenthrin granules in February, May, and August for prevention. Spot-treat random ant hills with bait. Do a perimeter check once a week. Doing this, while you'll never be ant-free, I think I have maybe 5% of the problem I had when I moved in.
@@2MinuteGardenTips It's a constant fight for sure. They also are fairly good at predicting a lot of rain. They seem to instinctively build their mounds a little higher when there is a lot of rain coming. BTW, Could you ask Dale what he knows about getting rid of Fungus Gnats? I am trying the mosquito bit soaking thing but BT is supposed to be the active ingredient that does the work and that is available in many different products these days which is much easier to use than soaking mosquito bits. Maybe you could do a video on that someday? I am sure it would be a popular subject. Maybe you already have and I missed it.
and 20 feet away there is another queen, and another and another here in NC Florida I just gave up. I am scarred from them crawling up my legs, they are all over the place. I have covered my garden paths with layers of cardboard to deter the tunneling they do in the sand and it helps a bit, but it's a nasty problem and really deters my enjoyment of gardening. I gave it up for years after working at an organic farm and saw the rampant pest problems of all kinds and got so discouraged. Now I just ignore them as best as possible, live and let live, and do the best I can, no chemicals for me.
worldwide and i know this is good for the ecosystem but its not their fault that they are that invasive, its not their fault that fire ant queens transfered to a country to another by human activity. They are lives. Just like us so please the ones out there that hate ants atleast stop hating them but u dont have to keep them
You'll want to target the ant hill. If the ants are walking around scouting, they probably won't stop what they're doing to pick up the granules. When you target the ant hill and place a small pile a couple inches away, they'll carry the granules in.
isn't it toxic to animals and humans, won't it get on animals feet? My cats always run around and step on ant hills stupidly, and I have a TON of colonies in North Central FL
It shouldn't matter. You only will be placing half to 1 teaspoon at the very foot of the anthill, which should be taken immediately underground. It's a targeted approach. It will make anything that eats it sick, since it is designed to harm insects.
so my cats run all over my yard and will get it on their feet and then they lick their feet, so no, I won't be using it. I have even seen cats laying on actual ant hills!!! s@@2MinuteGardenTips
Ahimsa ... kill nothing! This has been a conflict for me all my Life!! According to Kaneda, the term Ahimsa is an important spiritual doctrine shared by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It means 'non-injury' and 'non-killing'. It implies the total avoidance of harming any living creature by deeds, words, and thoughts.
This is mean killing ants that did nothing wrong especially the native ants think of an ant as a human and you just ended their life an innocent insect that did nothing wrong and ppl who are mad at me for saying this clearly don’t have a conscience
Ok, I had 4 Rough Harvester ant mounds in my yard. I've tried twice before to kill them. This time I bought the product shown in this video. The ants were dead in 24-48 hours. The colonies were about 6 years old. AMAZING product! Thanks!
I couldn't find the product do you have a link??
Jiffy corn bread mix out of box. Stir mound and add corn bread mix, the ants can’t digest and even kill the queen
My ants just relocate 12 inches away when I use this product. Still hasn’t killed them, just makes them abandon the mound, and rebuild right beside it.
Dawn dish soap diluted in lots of water, kills ants
@@katkinslowThat can't be good for plants.
Diatomaceous Earth is good, safe for plants too
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The challenge is keeping dogs away from the poison in the garden...
You should do a video on your most rain resistant varieties, it would be very helpful for your east coast viewers.
I intend to make videos about those subjects after the growing season ends to help gardeners prepare for the new growing season over the winter when content is difficult to come across since so little is growing. I'll definitely want to touch on those subjects, especially once the seed catalogs start coming in.
Rather than a product, what about the active ingredient?
I'm in Aussie, and tree ants (weaver/green ants ) are a huge problem in the tropics. We don't have the same brands as America.
I have found Fipronil used in dog and cat tick gels is deadly awesome. Mix a tube of dog tick thingie, with whatever the target ant eats ...
I did an entire Mango tree I couldn't climb within 24hrs. Just a few teaspoons of the tick treatment mixed with a half small tin of sardines.
Armageddon for green ants.
Mangoes are important in my neck of the bush : )
i rarely used chemicals or pesticides but love the idea of the sardine disguise and attractant ... will file that one away
@@ooohlaa13 Sometimes it has to be done. I don't use pesticides around my beehives, but there are times where it needs to be done or I'll lose the colony
I've poured vinegar and lemon juice on mounds in the garden and the ants are gone.
They just relocate. That won't do much to stop them. You need to actually kill the queen with a bait they will take back inside their colony.
Are you sure they aren't just cooking?
Is the queen dead? if not, theyll be back dw
"the" queen? doesn't lots of mounds mean lots of queens? I gave up.@@ahmedali35
I’m definitely going to get some of that thanks for the heads up 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
You're welcome! It's really good stuff.
DE has worked for me especially around dead tree stumps.
Going to pick this up today! Can’t wait to try it! I have a few ant colony in my backyard I live in the desert so I have different problems. Hope it works!
This stuff looks fantastic but I cannot find it on Amazon UK or anywhere else in UK. Can you supply it to UK ??
What's your thoughts on using it around the trunk of your fig trees? Or in the container with the fig? Is this not poison that your tree will eat up?
I wouldn't have any reservations. This isn't going to harm a tree. It is insect poison. Insecticides rarely have any affect on trees.
Ouch that is bad advice. The poison kills the soil microbes that trees need to get the nutrient they needed. The soil microbes provide those nutrients. Please do a bit of research. The poison approach is a downward spiral to ever worse problems.
well it may not harm the tree but does it transfer into the fruit in some way systemically? Playing with poison ammunition can boomerang in some situations you land up eating it!!! V scary!@@2MinuteGardenTips
If they were in the center of my yard where it's clay and they aerate that would be one thing, but they are all on the sides of my foundation. Going to try this asap
Thanks for the tip. I love your channel.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Thanks for the tip!🙂
Thank you for watching!
Great Video!
This video just came up on my feed. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been loading the fire ant beds down with Amdro, needlessly wasting it. Will use your tips from now on. It was getting really expensive!!!
That little jug I used in this video has lasted me 3 years, and it is still 40% full. You just need to target it. It works almost too well.
What is the name of the product, I can't find it anywhere!
@@michaelsullivan9342 Amdro Fireant Bait Granules. They sell it at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes and Amazon.
Thank you. What do you suggest if I have a whole acre of yard with nothing but
ant hills? Every inch is nest. Sandy soil with scarce grass bc of sandy soil. Thank you. New sub’r here. 👍🏻
Im gona try spreading 7 (ant bug formula)granular thick and mixing in a lot of granular bait in my spreader with the 7. Please help me. Ty
what about the toxicity to other animals and getting it on your shoes and spreading it inside, etc. Same problem here in NC Florida but reluctant to bring heavy pesticide guns onto my property, lots of wildlife here and my own fur babies.@@tbirdsdign
Does this help prevent them from coming in the house ?
Is it ok to sprinkle where I see a line or worker ants? Because I dont know where their colony is. It is probably under my cement slabs in the garden since I always see tons of ants come up when I flood the cement area.
It's worth a try. I would probably place it as a small pile in their walking path and see how they react. Worst case, they won't do anything. Best case, they'll start carrying it back to the colony.
Will this work for other types of ants besides fire ants? We have horrible ants that are similar to pharaoh ants.
I’m in the high desert of Texas and ants got into my water well and blew the connection. After that, I noticed them all in and outside my greenhouse. I took baking soda and sprinkled it all over and they were gone that same day. Then I sprinkled it all around and inside my well house and I don’t see them in there. These are big blackish ants. Not fire ants. Good luck.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Dumb question, because I know you probably wouldn't promote it if it was, but is it harmful to plants? I have a fire ant bed at the base of 1 of my pear trees, but am worried about putting anything on them because I don't want to hurt my tree. TIA
Is it safe to sprinkle I bird houses. Or aviary.
I can't imagine these granules being attractive to birds, but these granules should be target-placed right up against ant hills. Chances are, you won't have ant hills directly underneath your bird feeders.
no things offgas whether or not they are consumed, they are toxic and in the mix of air and water and moisture in the breaking down process imo.
Brutal! I had a colony of ants in the garden this year but they didn't do much damage. I saw them on some blackberries but I didn't see aphids either so I let it be. I hope that doesn't bite me in the ass next year. lol
Ants in the garden, in my opinion, is never a good sign. They're up to something, even if you can't see it. It's always best to dispose of the colony, in my experience. I really dislike killing anything - I don't even like killing spiders and usually try to catch them and bring them outside when they're in the house - but I have lost so many fruits to ants over the years, and I've been bitten by so many ants since moving here, that I make an exception for those little devils.
Amdro is an awesome product !
I've found it to be very effective.
Could i do this to stop ants coming into my house too?
where is the link to the product? I didn't see it in the description.
The fire ant bait is linked in my Amazon Storefront link in the video description under DISEASE PREVENTION AND PEST CONTROL.
All the ants will do is move to another area of the yard if you use this. So you do have to treat the whole yard.
Is that a fig bush next to the palm/banana ?
It is a Celeste fig. You can see a garden tour of my property here; I have about 50 fig trees: ua-cam.com/video/Hmwyqv6DnvE/v-deo.html
I have been using amdros for 30 years...Florida has the worst fire ants are horrible!
I've heard they're pretty bad in Texas, too. Maybe even worse. Here, we have more biting ants than I can count. This stuff has really made the problem go away. I used to try and get by spreading bifenthrin granules in the lawn, and I still do that, but this bait product really made all the difference.
So effective the ants are still showing up 2 years later 🤣
You will never be able to keep away all ants. They literally outnumber human beings millions to one. It's your job as a land owner to perform a walkthrough of your land on a regular basis and look for them. This will kill the ant hills. It will not prevent other ants from finding your yard and taking up residence.
Finally someone with balls.
I have a fire ant mound in the corner of one of my raised beds. I use Andro fire ant killer (a white powder) on mounds in my lawn, but I’ve been afraid to use it where I grow vegetables. The product you showed is granular. Is it a different formula or should I not use it around vegetables?
Amdro products are not recommended for vegetable gardens. It's better to use ant bait with spinosad as the active ingredient which is safe for vegetables.
The active ingredient is Hydramethylnon. Here is the EPA fact sheet on the product: www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/reregistration/fs_PC-118401_1-Sep-98.pdf
This is what the EPA has to say: "The use on rangelands or pastures primarily for Imported Fire ant control, is considered to be a food use and established tolerances are cited in 40 CFR Section 180.395. Hydramethylnon completely metabolizes within the body of foraging ruminants so there is an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for meat, milk, and meat byproducts."
In short, it's approved for use on land that cattle forage on, so it's not considered harmful to cattle and most mammals. This is not a product I would want to use in my garden in terms of broadcast spreading. However, last year, I did have a couple ant hills in between my raised beds, and I used a teaspoon of this product or less, and that quickly eradicated the problem. I also used a small sprinkle of this product inside my fig tree containers.
The concern with this product isn't making food toxic to humans, but rather you could harm the beneficial insects in your soil. I would strongly discourage any kind of "broadcast spreading" of this product in your garden, for certain. If you needed to spot treat one location with a teaspoon as a one time thing, that is likely of very limited concern. If this is an ongoing problem and you need to do this with any kind of frequency, you should only use products that use natural pyrethrin/pyrethrum and spinosad.
@@matwick53 I tend to agree with this. If you need to spot treat one or two ant hills with a small sprinkle, I wouldn't be afraid of this product, but if your garden has an "ant problem" and hills are a frequent occurrence, this is not a product designed for direct use in the garden. I would use an organic solution for recurring problems, or problems that require more than a teaspoon or two's use.
I have used concentrated orange 🍊 oil to kill fire ants. But it also damaged carrot crop if i poured on.
It work very will
Have been using 4 years . Have not found anything that works better ?!!!!!!👍
I just found some ants in my garden and spot treated this afternoon. It's good stuff.
Oh do we have fireants! They are everywhere! Nothing like picking peas while you discover you are standing on an any hill! I use the Amdro bait and also Agrisupply carries a liquid called Bifenthrin that must be drenched or sprayed that kills them. The issue with ants, is that if you don't get the queen they will just move over twenty feet and start another hill.
When I moved onto my property, the ants were horrible. Terrible! But I learned two things:
1. They are attracted to sand. Initially, my lot was clear-cut and just had some sod on it, so the ground was in bad shape. Very sandy, little organic matter. Since I've cared for my lawn and I'm converting so much of my land into rich, loamy dirt thanks to trucking in so much organic matter, there isn't much sand left for the ants to occupy.
2. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Spread bifenthrin granules in February, May, and August for prevention. Spot-treat random ant hills with bait. Do a perimeter check once a week.
Doing this, while you'll never be ant-free, I think I have maybe 5% of the problem I had when I moved in.
@@2MinuteGardenTips It's a constant fight for sure. They also are fairly good at predicting a lot of rain. They seem to instinctively build their mounds a little higher when there is a lot of rain coming.
BTW, Could you ask Dale what he knows about getting rid of Fungus Gnats? I am trying the mosquito bit soaking thing but BT is supposed to be the active ingredient that does the work and that is available in many different products these days which is much easier to use than soaking mosquito bits. Maybe you could do a video on that someday? I am sure it would be a popular subject. Maybe you already have and I missed it.
its so good for "tunneling", they can't resist!@@2MinuteGardenTips
and 20 feet away there is another queen, and another and another here in NC Florida I just gave up. I am scarred from them crawling up my legs, they are all over the place. I have covered my garden paths with layers of cardboard to deter the tunneling they do in the sand and it helps a bit, but it's a nasty problem and really deters my enjoyment of gardening. I gave it up for years after working at an organic farm and saw the rampant pest problems of all kinds and got so discouraged. Now I just ignore them as best as possible, live and let live, and do the best I can, no chemicals for me.
How about carpenter ants? They eat meat because I saw them devour a mouse in a trap in the eves.
worldwide and i know this is good for the ecosystem but its not their fault that they are that invasive, its not their fault that fire ant queens transfered to a country to another by human activity. They are lives. Just like us so please the ones out there that hate ants atleast stop hating them but u dont have to keep them
i got an ant colony on my pets grave and i need to destroy it
This will do it in a few hours.
@@2MinuteGardenTips great
the black ants in my yard did not go for this bait at all ... ugh..
You'll want to target the ant hill. If the ants are walking around scouting, they probably won't stop what they're doing to pick up the granules. When you target the ant hill and place a small pile a couple inches away, they'll carry the granules in.
@@2MinuteGardenTips ok ill try that next time they are everywhere this summer ... will try to find nest and place around
Was this sponsored?
isn't it toxic to animals and humans, won't it get on animals feet? My cats always run around and step on ant hills stupidly, and I have a TON of colonies in North Central FL
You're putting a teaspoon right up against the ant hill, and then the ants pull it underground immediately. It'll be all gone in an hour.
Is it pet friendly
It shouldn't matter. You only will be placing half to 1 teaspoon at the very foot of the anthill, which should be taken immediately underground. It's a targeted approach. It will make anything that eats it sick, since it is designed to harm insects.
so my cats run all over my yard and will get it on their feet and then they lick their feet, so no, I won't be using it. I have even seen cats laying on actual ant hills!!! s@@2MinuteGardenTips
I use baking soda! Works like a charm.
Do you mean borax? Baking soda likely won't destroy a nest.
Don't kill any animal became karma 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Ahimsa ... kill nothing! This has been a conflict for me all my Life!!
According to Kaneda, the term Ahimsa is an important spiritual doctrine shared by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It means 'non-injury' and 'non-killing'. It implies the total avoidance of harming any living creature by deeds, words, and thoughts.
50/50 Sugar and Baking Soda
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Thanks for watching!
U kiddin? A commercial?
This is mean killing ants that did nothing wrong especially the native ants think of an ant as a human and you just ended their life an innocent insect that did nothing wrong and ppl who are mad at me for saying this clearly don’t have a conscience
THIS IS CRUEL TO OUR ANT KEEPERS PLEASE PEOPLE JUST LET THEM LIVE!!!!!
No.
You're taking it too far when you can't even kill a pest. Would you kill hornets? That could hurt your family.
if your self conscious about your arms then try working out more
What are you talking about? You've been drinking or something.
What is the name of that granulated poison, I can't find it anywhere, all I heard in the cmment's is how good of a product it is!