Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?

Give them all pink slips and tell them they've all been laid off and will
need to go somewhere else to find work!!! (Be sure to blame it all on the
slow economy and raising gas prices!!!!)


Hound wrote in message
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How can I get fire ants out of my compost pile?

Give them all pink slips and tell them they've all been laid off and will
need to go somewhere else to find work!!! (Be sure to blame it all on the
slow economy and raising gas prices!!!!)


Hound wrote in message
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Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?

I think I would try some Amdro bait.

Hound wrote in message
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Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:36:36 GMT, Hound wrote:

Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?


Yes, learn how to compost and you'll have temperatures to high for
their survival!

On Sun, 23 May 2004 13:36:58 -0700, Tom Jasz
wrote:

Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?


Yes, learn how to compost and you'll have temperatures to high for
their survival!

The heat may keep them from nesting in the main part of the heap, but
many times they are actually nesting next to the pile and using the
heat for their incubation, transporting their eggs/larvae through the
top levels of the pile.


Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!


It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.



Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!


It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.

If you don't know the answer, which apparently you don't, then feel free to
keep your two cents out of the mix.

On Sun, 23 May 2004 13:36:58 -0700, Tom Jasz opined:

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:36:36 GMT, Hound wrote:

Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?


Yes, learn how to compost and you'll have temperatures to high for
their survival!

That's fine when your compost is hot. My compost is not hot because I dump it
there and come back a year later. I don't constantly turn it and mess with it.
I don't have fire ants in it, either. But, that's probably because I use
beneficial nematodes.


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On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:36:36 GMT, Hound wrote:

Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?

No easy way. Look he

http://www.netpamj.com/fireants.htm

Best of luck.

Very helpful web site.

Thanks,

Hound Dog

On Sun, 23 May 2004 23:44:19 -0400, "eclectic"
opined:

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:36:36 GMT, Hound wrote:

Is there any safe way of getting fire ants out of compost piles?

No easy way. Look he

http://www.netpamj.com/fireants.htm

Best of luck.



Amdro, which is a bait cost about 9 dollars per acre to treat. Logic, an even
less invasive product cost about 15 dollars per acre to treat. The treatment
lasts about 2-3 months. Beneficial nematodes cost about 20 dollars and they
take care of my half acre all season, with the occasional mound showing up here
and there, which I knock down using dry molasses. Apparently, fire ants do not
like molasses.

Victoria


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