Comments on: Fire Ant Control Test on My Small Suburban Home Lawn http://blog.fbmg.com/2009/12/22/fire-ant-control-test-on-my-small-suburban-home-lawn/ One method of sharing horticultural information Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:33:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Robert http://blog.fbmg.com/2009/12/22/fire-ant-control-test-on-my-small-suburban-home-lawn/#comment-522 Robert Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:23:59 +0000 http://blog.fbmg.com/2009/12/22/fire-ant-control-test-on-my-small-suburban-home-lawn/#comment-522 I will have to give that a try. I am always interested in eliminating these critters. Next on my list: mosquitoes. I am tired of being being bitten by females. :) I will have to give that a try. I am always interested in eliminating these critters.

Next on my list: mosquitoes. I am tired of being being bitten by females. :)

]]> By: txmg http://blog.fbmg.com/2009/12/22/fire-ant-control-test-on-my-small-suburban-home-lawn/#comment-509 txmg Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:06:45 +0000 http://blog.fbmg.com/2009/12/22/fire-ant-control-test-on-my-small-suburban-home-lawn/#comment-509 We've had pretty good success with a product containing fipronil and it has kept the ants away up to a year when broadcast over the entire property. It isn't watered in. Whether the ants are being killed, or just relocating, I don't know. Trying to be more organic, we've used Spinosad to treat mounds that popped up when we went more than a year between broadcasts of fipronil. But I think the spot treatment was just chasing them elsewhere. Timing of the broadcast is very important - the ants should be foraging for it to be effective - spring and fall. Like you, I don't like to harm any of the beneficials. Supposedly, the ants carry the bait to the mounds and it doesn't harm beneficials. We’ve had pretty good success with a product containing fipronil and it has kept the ants away up to a year when broadcast over the entire property. It isn’t watered in. Whether the ants are being killed, or just relocating, I don’t know.

Trying to be more organic, we’ve used Spinosad to treat mounds that popped up when we went more than a year between broadcasts of fipronil. But I think the spot treatment was just chasing them elsewhere. Timing of the broadcast is very important - the ants should be foraging for it to be effective - spring and fall.

Like you, I don’t like to harm any of the beneficials. Supposedly, the ants carry the bait to the mounds and it doesn’t harm beneficials.

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