SPINOSAD
It's scary!
Once upon a time there was a product on the market called GreenLight Fire Ant Killer with Conserve. It was a bait and it really worked until the government made them stop making it. There are other baits out there, one of them is Come and Get It. All of them have spinosad as their active ingredient but they just don't work very well because of the miniscule amout of spinosad in them. Liquid spinosad is a different story. Use it as a soil drench. 2 oz spinosad 1 oz molasses per gallon of water. Usually a quart of the mixture is plenty for a big mound and the mound is usually dead in 3 days.I didn't know that! I love cinnamon. I'll use spinosad from now on, but maybe I'll sprinkle a little cinnamon for the smell
They are really bad. A few years ago I heard on the news that a woman in Florida died from their bites because she was gardening and inadvertently stepped on a fire ants mound.
I knew that it's better to stay away from fire ants, but I had no idea that they can be that dangerous Now, I feel very fortunate that I've never met them. In Poland, we have tiny, red ants. They sometimes bite, but it's nothing serious, I haven't heard of anyone who would get injured by them.
Fire ants aren't all bad, just 99% bad. They also attack fleas and ticks. And you pets too.This is horrible
It's good that they attack ticks, but I wouldn't want them to attack my dog. He's a tiny Yorkie. If we had fire ants here, I wouldn't let him spend time in our garden, it would be too risky