"Betsy" wrote in message
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| yep - I had luck with boiling water by first taking a long iron pole
(or
| whatever kind of pole you have) and plunging it into the center of
the mound
| as far as it will go. You can feel how there's less resistance as
deep as
| the ants have dug, and then you hit harder soil. It's important to
do this
| because the ants carry the queen as deep as they can as soon as the
nest is
| under attack, and this can be several feet down. Rotate the pole to
open up
| the hole. Immediately (and I mean IMMEDIATELY) after quickly poking
a very
| deep hole in the nest, dump as much boiling water as you can into
it. If you
| fail to get the queen you'll still kill a ton of ants, but there's
an
| excellent chance you'll get her. Studies have found that some nests
of fire
| ants actually "learn" to avoid Amdro. Can you tell I hate fire ants?
:-)
|
| Betsy
|

this technique with boiling water has always worked for us--sometimes
it takes two rounds, but it always takes care of things for the
season|