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Post by airraider on Sept 23, 2009 8:58:12 GMT -6
We have been getting loads of rain and the fire ant piles are everywhere.. the janitor told me today that if I take some Dawn dish washing liquid and mix it in with about a 5 gallon bucket of water and pour it on the mounds.. it will kill them..
I know if you use the regular old ant poison.. they will just move..
Anyone ever use the soap method?
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Post by touchdownmaker on Sept 23, 2009 9:01:33 GMT -6
no, but we have fire ants
I have switched to a 353 defense and was considering calling it "the fire ant defense" because my team is like a bunch of fire ants in the near future..not many big guys but lots of little scrappy buggers.
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Post by brophy on Sept 23, 2009 9:50:37 GMT -6
Is it acceptable for a player to want out of practice because a fire ant bit him? 3 players last week were crying about this.
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Post by blb on Sept 23, 2009 10:01:56 GMT -6
no, but we have fire ants I have switched to a 353 defense and was considering calling it "the fire ant defense" because my team is like a bunch of fire ants in the near future..not many big guys but lots of little scrappy buggers. When Joe Morrison was head coach at South Carolina in mid-eighties, they called their 4-3 the "Fire Ants Defense," trying to create an image or description. Apparently fire ants are quite common in SC. A Sign of the Apocalypse - touchdownmaker NOT running the Bear 46 defense?! |
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Post by brophy on Sept 23, 2009 10:58:06 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on Sept 23, 2009 11:05:43 GMT -6
putting anything on an ant hill is reactionary. You will kill the mound, but there are many more waiting to come up. Every time it rains and you see an ant mound pop up the next day, you have to realize that the queen has been in the ground anywhere from 12-18 months.
In order to successfully deal with them, you have to apply a sustainable bait type pesticide at least once every year. Usually it is put out in Feb/Mar here. Our district does it 2 times a year.
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Post by brophy on Sept 23, 2009 11:10:38 GMT -6
FYI - before the season started, we had 3 really bad mounds, so we dug them up (probably 2'x2') and doused the remaining sod with gasoline. We hadn't had any real issues with them up until last week. Consequently, they are all over the field now.....I just know digging up the mounds provided us a temporary solution.
The problem becomes;
1) when it rains, just like worms, these guys come OUT of the ground and are pissed
2) just getting anywhere near the ants pisses them off so they'll bite you. Once they bite, you will swat one, who will signal the rest of the mob to start biting your ass. Then you're up {censored} creek.
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Post by coachwoodall on Sept 23, 2009 11:16:23 GMT -6
FYI - before the season started, we had 3 really bad mounds, so we dug them up (probably 2'x2') and doused the remaining sod with gasoline. We hadn't had any real issues with them up until last week. Consequently, they are all over the field now.....I just know digging up the mounds provided us a temporary solution. The problem becomes; 1) when it rains, just like worms, these guys come OUT of the ground and are {censored}2) just getting anywhere near the ants pisses them off so they'll bite you. Once they bite, you will swat one, who will signal the rest of the mob to start biting your {censored}. Then you're up {censored} creek. one way to make sure your players don't stay on the ground long. |
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Post by touchdownmaker on Sept 23, 2009 12:19:24 GMT -6
no, but we have fire ants I have switched to a 353 defense and was considering calling it "the fire ant defense" because my team is like a bunch of fire ants in the near future..not many big guys but lots of little scrappy buggers. When Joe Morrison was head coach at South Carolina in mid-eighties, they called their 4-3 the "Fire Ants Defense," trying to create an image or description. Apparently fire ants are quite common in SC. A Sign of the Apocalypse - touchdownmaker NOT running the Bear 46 defense?! we still run it, but by the skin of our teeth. I am basically out of 46ish linebackers...but we run it. |
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Post by rip60zgo on Sept 23, 2009 12:45:27 GMT -6
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Post by davecisar on Sept 23, 2009 13:16:31 GMT -6
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Post by tiger46 on Sept 23, 2009 17:32:26 GMT -6
Airraider,
I've used the soapy water method in my backyard. But, I don't know if it will work for multiple ant beds and wide areas.
I turned my waterhose on very low. Inserted the hose down the fire ant bed until I met resistance. The ants will begin swarming out of the hole. More importantly, they will bring out their larvae with them. I then just drowned them with soapy water. Just to be sure, I dug up the bed and sprayed all that dirt with Raid before re-packing it in place. Worked just fine.
Keys: 1.) Watch your feet. 2.) Keep the water very low. You want the bed to flood slowly so that the ants have time to grab the larvae before abandoning the bed.
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Post by coachcathey on Sept 23, 2009 18:28:56 GMT -6
Can't get rid of the d@mn things in my yard, I got bit like 50 over the past two summers, my feet and legs looked like a dang watermelon...
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Post by dubber on Sept 23, 2009 18:57:26 GMT -6
I'll stop complaining about the sweat bees on our field
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Post by airraider on Sept 23, 2009 20:11:43 GMT -6
i have over 50 mounds on my game field..
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Post by los on Sept 23, 2009 22:11:15 GMT -6
I'm not sure anything will get rid of them permanently airraider, that won't kill all of us too......we never could get rid of them at the golf course, just tried to keep them off the tee's and greens......at the football field, we had a lot of grass area outside the track around the field and just tried to aggravate them into moving outside the track, by using assorted granular baits and chemicals, but we caught them early and only had a few mounds to deal with.....the lemon joy dishwashing soap will dang sure kill a mole cricket, and they're some pretty tough hombres, it may run the ants off to the outlying areas = who knows, try it.....thats a pretty serious infestation, if you have over 50 mounds on the field, not only the ants in and around the mounds, but you'll have millions of them foraging for food on the field....and like Brophy said = if there's no worms or insects for them to eat... guess whats gonna be the food ? = Human flesh!..  ..ask your county extension agent or some local golf course superintendents, they can tell you the best stuff for your area there....my wife swears she read somewhere, that you can shovel ants from one mound into another mound and they'll kill each other off in the insuing battle.....this theory has yet to be proven by me though, lol......  |
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Post by bigdog2003 on Sept 27, 2009 17:13:15 GMT -6
no, but we have fire ants I have switched to a 353 defense and was considering calling it "the fire ant defense" because my team is like a bunch of fire ants in the near future..not many big guys but lots of little scrappy buggers. When Joe Morrison was head coach at South Carolina in mid-eighties, they called their 4-3 the "Fire Ants Defense," trying to create an image or description. Apparently fire ants are quite common in SC.A Sign of the Apocalypse - touchdownmaker NOT running the Bear 46 defense?! They are more than common, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE! You can't go camping without them getting you. Our pracitice field has them really bad on one half. |
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Post by k on Sept 27, 2009 20:34:53 GMT -6
50 fire ant mounds? Time to start fund raising for a turf field.
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..ask your county extension agent or some local golf course superintendents, they can tell you the best stuff for your area there....my wife swears she read somewhere, that you can shovel ants from one mound into another mound and they'll kill each other off in the insuing battle.....this theory has yet to be proven by me though, lol...... 