BlkKnight

Over the last couple of weeks, I've developed an ant infestation in my back garden and it is beginning to get on my ****.

Whenever I see a mound of earth appearing I dig it up a little, put down the powder & spray the area.

This tends to slow them down for a couple of days but then another appears!

I've killed off several egg patches which were under rocks etc, but the little buggers keep coming back.

Short of digging up the lawn, I'm at a loss.

Suggestions?

SJ_Skyline

Got the same problem, on the path when sand appears nippon powder goes down and gets stamped in. When a mound appears in the lawn it gets opened up with a hand fork, nippon powder goes in and the whole thing gets stamped down.

Couple of weeks back I was in the garden reading and all the flying ants started hatching, clouds of the little sods. By the time I finished I had gone through more than 2 bottles of powder and the garden looked like a frosty Januray morning.

I think I got most of them as we've had very little activity since. It will be next summer before we get much activity again and then it's just a case of hitting them again.

I don't think there's a permanent solution short of tarmacing over, just a case of dealing with them as and when the little buggers appear.

davegtt

Last time I had ants around my back garden I used 2 bottles of bleach drowning the little sods

AndyC_772

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I have exactly the same, more than a dozen nests of the little buggers in my back lawn. I've tried the powder, tried a spray-on pesticide - next stop is unleaded plus a match.

ChefDude

there's nothing that can't be solved with judicious use of pyrotechnics

TonyBurns

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My mate did that in Rwanda, full jerry can of petrol down (a rather large) anthill, didnt have any problems after that, though he did singe his hair

Tony

Wish

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boiling water :rocks:

scoob_babe

Boling water is good for path and patio but not so good for a lawn. I'm already banned from doing anything to the lawn owing to being over-enthusiastic with the weed killer

DCI Gene Hunt

I bought some nippon 'gel'...... place a drop in the entrance and the little ******* take it back into their nest, then they eat it & feed it to the baby ants..... killing them all off!

Is that a crime against ant-manity?

WRX_Dazza

find the "mole" thread archive on here...

you'll be so busy laughing, you'll forget about the ants!!!!

lol

BlkKnight

LOL yes I remember that one

skoobidude

Call Tommy Saxondale.

Look for his van with "Simply The Pest" logo.

Nick

BlkKnight

jods

Agreed - I poured 15 litres of boiling water into a hole cut into lawn above nest. - Never had any further problem. Clearly killed all the ants AND the Queen so no more babies.

lozgti

Do ants benefit the garden in any way?

Just wondering before I follow the above napalming advice on our lot

AndyC_772

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Well, they destroy patches of grass, so I guess if you hate mowing the lawn that much then they could be considered a benefit...