[Uncle Meat]

Ortho makes some poison especially made for fire ants that work s good.It has to be some of the nastiest smelling stuff there is.It stinks so bad,it can gag a maggot.I battle them constantly in my yard ,speaking of building a tall mound,they built a nesy under the base of a lamp post I have in the middle of my patio.When I picked it up,there was sand that they dug up from the paving bricks all the way up the lamp post base.they then swarmed out all over the place.I used some of that Ortho and that did them in the next day.There was a thick ring of dead ants underneath.

[hawkk]

I know what you mean about the sand build up, it's not even dirt anymore. We have tired just about everthing there is, and to be honest with you, if you keep at them all day long, every day, going with the cheap stuff works as well as the more expensive stuff as Ortho. Right now I have a large can of some generic spray for ants/roahes, and I poke a stick in the mound to get them going, and just spray like crazy. They move within a few hrs, what's left of them, and I repeat. Right now they are under my son's portable basketball hoop..the mound has to be at least 6 inches high, all around the base. I haven't gotten to it yet this wknd, hoping they think I have forgotten! lol