How Do You Kill Fire Ants Around Kids?
There are several ways to kill fire ants, but not all of them are non-toxic and kid-friendly. When you have kids running around your lawn, you don’t want them getting badly burned by a chemical solution. Here are three chemical-free solutions to exterminating fire ants on your property. Bring 3 gallons of water to a rolling boil. Let it boil for a couple of minutes. Go out on a nice, sunny day, when the ants are most active, and pour the boiling water slowly onto the ant mound. Collapse as much of the mound as possible while pouring the water. This will kill the ants, their larvae and their stored food instantly, but if the queen isn’t killed, the colony won’t be destroyed. Get a 3-foot reinforcement bar and use it to make a hole to the bottom of the ant mound. Drop a piece of dry ice into the mound. Push the dry ice to the bottom of the mound by using the rebar. The cold temperature of dry ice will kill the queen and most of the other ants. The key to destroying any colony is killing
