Apachewoman Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Ants are progressively colonizing my yard space. Identified activity area denoted by deposits of soil on top of gravel covered yard. Need an exterminator who can use an effective poison and inject into soil. All powders and other surface treatments have failed. And please recommend an effective treatment application you have successfully used. THANKS very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mujerdemex Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 FuMiGa Fumigaciones Ing. René Miranda, 376-766-2286 / 331-464-6705 Libertad #240, San Antonio Tlayacapan www.fumigaservice.com The soil injection treatment will take a month or two to fully destroy the colony, but it will work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorwheeljg@gmail.com Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 These are leaf cutter ants. Hormigas. Go to the garden supply store in riberas for the white powder for plants and brown pellets around those Hilly nests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxMan Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 Talk with Manny. He got rid of our ant problem (traced their nest to the neighbor's yard and got rid of them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedros Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 Good luck with the ants. They will win in the end as I think you live adjacent to empty land. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 yes Cedro you are right.. I pour insecticide in their nest at night but then I found some that came from over the wall from my next door neighbor so I called her to see if I could come over to stop those tunnels, she told me know because she had the yard fumigated.. adn I can vouvh it dit nothing. They still are coming over, unless you check the yard every night and pour insecticide down the holes they will continue coming.. they also make new tunnels and repop in ther places.. hopefully on the street or in the neighnor s yard.. Ye you can win battles but the war will be lost in the long run. THey are particularly bad right now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timjwilson Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 For ants that eat sugar, I mix boric acid with sugar and water, pour into various shallow lids with small pieces of tissue. They take it back to the nest and all the ants die. 2 tablesoons boric acid; half cup sugar; 2 cups warm water [better for mixing] It works. Place out of reach of pets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 ManxMan , they will be back , they are jut gone for a while.. and thencome back and eat half of your plant before you even know it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cartero Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 Ortho Fire Ant Killer handles leaf cutters. Going thru the same problem. Wiped out most of the mounds but still some refusing to die. Actually these are granules you apply then drench with water which soaks in and, hopefully, eradicates the Queen. Mercadolibre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 The first couple of times the cutter ants stripped my beautiful big jasmine plant down to bare stems overnight I was devastated. Then I noticed that within a few days, it was all leafing out again with fresh, shiny green leaves and within 2 weeks, it looked gorgeous again. So I just started considering the leaf cutters to be nature's pruners and don't bother trying to fight them anymore. And that jasmine is now 2 stories high and they don't seem to be that interested in it anymore. There is some 2 sided sticky tape you can buy to put around the main stem of larger plants which insects can't crawl over without getting stuck. I moved into the ants' territory, rather than the other way round. And I don't spread toxic chemicals around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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