[Dailydrool] Ant Hills

[Marie28443 at aol.com]

After fighting ants, mostly fire ants, for  years, an old timer told me that 
the only real way to get rid of them was to buy  a bag of grits at the grocery 
store and liberally sprinkle grits on the ground  from the mound to about a 
foot out from the mound in a circle.   You  have to keep replenishing the grits 
on the ground and after a heavy rain as the  ants will carry them off within 
a day.  The man's theory was that the  worker ants carry food back into the 
underground nest and eventually to the  queen.   When the ants eat the grits, 
they supposedly get clogged  systems and die off.  

One thing I did learn from an Ace Hardware  salesman who knew a lot about 
ants was that where you see the hills is not where  the queen is living and you 
have to get to the queen.  She can be safely  residing up to a half a mile from 
the hills in your yard.

We did the  grits treatment for several years when we were living in Florida 
and it worked  just as well as anything you could buy and there were no 
harmful chemicals on  the lawn for our Bassets to walk on.

Marie
Rhett, Scarlet and Megan  Mariah  




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