Guys...I have an ant problem.

[Dark Fact]

Well, by looking at the subject header, you guys can figure out that I've got a major problem dealing with those pesky ants.  However, it's not a household problem, it's the amount of colonies that are springing up in my yard every year.

My dad bought some powdered ant killer from a local hardware and gardening store but it failed to do the job.  I need to know what is a surefire way to get rid of black ant colonies to which they will never come back?

I want a good remedy or a good product.  No exterminators or toxic chemicals that can f*ck up my lawn.  I've checked over the web but answers seem to vary between the sugar and Borax recipe to pouring hot water over the ant hill with some people saying one thing works while the other doesn't.

Suggestions?

[Necromancer]

Sorry, but there is no magic wand that will forever rid your lawn of ants.  New colonies will keep moving in to replace any that are destroyed, but that doesn't mean that you have to like 'em.  Try boric acid or some more pesticides from your local hardware store, and remain vigilant.  Just think of the ants as another little yard project, like trimming the bushes (which can also be a good bedroom project).

[FM-77]

I always poured boiling water on the ant homes when I had the same problem some years ago (I don't live there anymore). It always killed them all, and they disappeared, but unfortunately they always came back somewhere else on the lawn a couple months later. It's a war that is impossible to win, I'm afraid.

[Kitsunexus]

Toro Ant Killer. The ants love it, and it kills them ALL within a couple of hours.




...it is sort of kinda highly toxic though...

[terrormask]

Grow more grass.

[TR0N]

Get a ant eater jk. Dunno most of what been mention all ready is some thing, toxic to get rid of them i'm afraid.

[Dark Fact]

Me and my dad have agreed on the Borax ant hotel solution.  We really need those pests reduced or flat out gone because there are already 8 or 9 of these f*cking colonies on my property and more can still arise.

We'll see if that helps.

[Kitsunexus]

Hey, Toro is highly toxic to ants, but it doesn't f*ck up the lawn.

[Turbo D]

I always just go and smash in their ant hill. Then I watch them squirm and try to rebuild it. I tried drowning them but those black ants can swim and evade the flood. Damn ants 

[Kitsunexus]

I always just go and smash in their ant hill. Then I watch them squirm and try to rebuild it. I tried drowning them but those black ants can swim and evade the flood. Damn ants 

One time when we were little, me and my siblings built what we called "Antzwisch", a glorified ant concentration camp. It had little traps for the ants, some of which was inspired by Viet-Cong stuff we read (like we made little holes, put toothpicks in them, and put grass over the holes), we had poison food, even the good ole' magnifying glass, but most importantly, we had the "SQUISHER".

I can't exactly remember how we built the squisher, but I remember that the buisness end was a flowerpot.

One particular Squisher death sticks out in my mind. It had rained prior to the Ant Holocaust so the area was a bit muddy. A lone black ant, for whatever reason, ran into the squisher range. The order was issued, and the flowerpot went down.

Ever see one of those cartoons where Wile E. Coyote gets embedded in the cliff and you see a hole that's exactly his shape? That's what happened here. He was wiggling around in a sort of death seizure, so we used our magnifying glass and finished him off.

At the end of the day, the deaths numbered in the hundreds. We were about to put the dead in the furnace (a re-christened EZ-Bake Oven) but our parents told us to quit torturing innocent creatures and to put our shit away. f*ckin' hippies.


And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the rise, heyday, and fall of the Fourth Reich.

[terrormask]

 ...............................................................lol

[FM-77]

Grow more grass.

Actually, mowing the lawn more often will ruin it for the ants.

[terrormask]

The reason I said grow more grass is because bare lawns usually get the worse ant infestations. And yes, mowing the grass also keeps the bug problem down.

[Dark Fact]

Mowing the lawn? Every time I mow over those little ant hills, it just causes the colony to swarm.  How's that get rid of them?

[WoodyXP]

Take a roto-tiller to the ant hill, completely destroy it.  And then follow that with a couple pots of boiling water.  That f*cks them up
good and they never come back(to that particular area at least).