How to destroy an anthill?
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Why try to burn something when you can have a constant deathmatch going on in your front yard? Go out and dig up a different ant colony and start adding the inhabitants to the one in your front yard and watch the show!
Ants are notorious show offs as well. They will decapitate their victims and parade around with the trophy....until they get blindsided and have their head cut off. Eventually you will either have 2 dead ant colonies or 1 colony reigning supreme(but severely weakened) and at that point you can burn the weakened colony and call it the wrath of god coming to punish the ants for their murderous rampage and sins.
what?? stop looking at me like that. I'm sure others have done the same.....right?
Ants are notorious show offs as well. They will decapitate their victims and parade around with the trophy....until they get blindsided and have their head cut off. Eventually you will either have 2 dead ant colonies or 1 colony reigning supreme(but severely weakened) and at that point you can burn the weakened colony and call it the wrath of god coming to punish the ants for their murderous rampage and sins.
what?? stop looking at me like that. I'm sure others have done the same.....right?
Kill it with fire!
You can mix equal parts petrol to orange juice to make napalm. Add sawdust to make nitro glycerine.
Recently read fight club, i think thats the recipe.
You can mix equal parts petrol to orange juice to make napalm. Add sawdust to make nitro glycerine.
Recently read fight club, i think thats the recipe.
Oddly enough, the icing sugar and cornmeal was the first thing my girlfriend suggested. We tried it, and it didn't do jackshit. They were back in full force two days later. Also, covering the top with cement isn't really an option--we want to keep the lawn more or less intact.mitchell271 said:
Also, I'd like to thank everyone for all of your suggestions. Right now we're considering fire, and if that doesn't work, we'll call Pest Control and fork over $2,000,000,000,000,000 to get it removed professionally.
A recommendation (unsure if it's been said already):
Lure them with a small plate of sugar cubes. Should be a pretty thick carpet of them in a short amount of time as they get reinforcements. Once the line/carpet of ants is to your satisfaction, pour some Terro or any Borax-based chem across them. The infected will be sure to carry it on themselves all the way back into the nest.
It's nasty, but effective, and delivery in this method should avoid exposing pets or other wildlife to too much of the stuff.
Lure them with a small plate of sugar cubes. Should be a pretty thick carpet of them in a short amount of time as they get reinforcements. Once the line/carpet of ants is to your satisfaction, pour some Terro or any Borax-based chem across them. The infected will be sure to carry it on themselves all the way back into the nest.
It's nasty, but effective, and delivery in this method should avoid exposing pets or other wildlife to too much of the stuff.
I actually thought it was voles at first. My housemate (who is the one that found this monster) told me it was ants, and sure enough, there are billions of ants on it. Also, our dog usually kills and eats the voles in our lawn.Quaidis said:
Trust me, if it was wasps, I would have nuked the lawn. I hate wasps.
Yes, I'm sure that it's an anthill. It isn't a line, it's just 3 feet across and about a foot wide. AN there are billions of ants swarming all over it. I'm not joking, when this thing dies, it will make headlines in the ant world. It will be like aliens coming down and obliterating New York, London, and Shanghai all at once.
[HEADING=3]I WILL BE THE NEW ANTI-CHRIST OF THE WORLDWIDE ANT RELIGION![/HEADING]
A 3 foot wide ant hill on your territory is aggressive expansion by these ants and should consider an act of war. I move for forming a close alliance with the other insects in your garden in order raise an army to repel the ant forces. I would suggest a combination of termites for infantry and wasps to provide air support. It will be long and tough campaign but the act menace will be purge.
Or more seriously;
I like the aardvark idea
Or being properly serious;
Find out what type of ants they are and buy poison known to be very effective against that species. Most importantly the queen and eggs must be destoryed the colony will just die out without them.
Or more seriously;
I like the aardvark idea
Or being properly serious;
Find out what type of ants they are and buy poison known to be very effective against that species. Most importantly the queen and eggs must be destoryed the colony will just die out without them.
What about a poison irrigation system? Get a pipe with holes poked in the side, stab it down the center axis of the anthill, and pump some poison through it.
Well, one way: Get several fireworks, like the air bomb and place a ring around the outside of the ant's nest, make sure they're dug pretty deep and then trail a single fuse, preferably behind somekind of makeshift barricade and light. After the defining racket, rush forwards and unleash the power of deodorant can + lighter.
Repeat this tactic until you hit the queens layer.
(Note, worried phone calls to the police by neighbors are not my responsibility)
Repeat this tactic until you hit the queens layer.
(Note, worried phone calls to the police by neighbors are not my responsibility)
If playing Mercenaries taught me anything, there is no problem that can not be solved with a nuclear bunker buster.
