I had a couple huge ant hills in my hard.
Like two-foot-diameter patches of raised dirt, above the grass ... some grass poking through, but mostly not.
I dumped a bunch of ant insecticide on them a week ago.
When you kill an ant mound you just make an opening for yellow jackets to use for their ground nest.
Having ants in the lawn has its pros and cons. The benefits of ants are that they control other pests, help to aerate the soil, provide free fertilizer, and seed the lawn. The downside of ants in the lawn is they can suffocate your grass, weaken your lawn’s root system, disturb the uniform appearance of the yard, damage the grass, and spread weeds.
Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. So, while ants do help to aerate the soil, there is the chance that they could aerate it too much. If you have a large colony of ants in your lawn, the tunnels can dry out the soil and kill your lawn. I once had a colony of ants in my lawn that I didn’t really mind at first until I started noticing my lawn turning yellow.
Ants Weaken Grass Roots
Ants live underground, and so does your lawn’s root system. If you have a big ant colony on your hands, the tunnels can become a problem for the lawn’s roots. When the tunnels become too extensive, they can harm and weaken your lawn’s root system.
Ants Make Holes in Your Yard
While ants are hard at work growing and feeding their colony, their home is getting bigger and bigger. One big problem I have noticed with this is that they actually start to make a hole in the lawn. As they are aerating the lawn, they are actually making voids or pockets in the lawn’s soil.
Ants Plant Weeds in Your Lawn
Ants taking grass seeds down into the soil sounds like a pretty good idea. But whether your lawn actually ever goes to seed is another question. I know that I cut my lawn regularly, so I never get seed heads on my lawn.
So, the only seeds that might really be available for ants are seeds from any weeds that have managed to skip my attention. The idea that ants are seeding your lawn may really be a case that they are planting weeds.
>Girlfriend's grandma asks if I can trim some trees for her on the side of the property nobody goes to anymore >Tree is in a flower bed kinda thing >Hop over some plants >Sink multiple inches upon landing >Suddenly pain, assume ants, really really fast ants >Bolt, pain growing >Throw off my shoes and pants >Yellow jackets got in my shoes and pants legs and were stinging me over and over
Fricking hate wasps. Little buttholes.
Stepping in one while mowing. Even in a full sprint a half dozen got into the house either on me stinging or in chase and the rest swarmed the mower for hours. The next day I took two full cans and John Woo'd the nest.
Based ants are aerating and fertilizing my lawn, and they do it for free
I had a couple huge ant hills in my hard.
Like two-foot-diameter patches of raised dirt, above the grass ... some grass poking through, but mostly not.
I dumped a bunch of ant insecticide on them a week ago.
is this true?
crap.
Yellow jackets don’t dig out dirt. There has to be a cavity there for them to make a nest. Old ant mounds are perfect for them.
Based AF. Had yellowjackets make THREE nests on my tiny yard from where rabbits were digging in.
Having ants in the lawn has its pros and cons. The benefits of ants are that they control other pests, help to aerate the soil, provide free fertilizer, and seed the lawn. The downside of ants in the lawn is they can suffocate your grass, weaken your lawn’s root system, disturb the uniform appearance of the yard, damage the grass, and spread weeds.
Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. So, while ants do help to aerate the soil, there is the chance that they could aerate it too much. If you have a large colony of ants in your lawn, the tunnels can dry out the soil and kill your lawn. I once had a colony of ants in my lawn that I didn’t really mind at first until I started noticing my lawn turning yellow.
Ants Weaken Grass Roots
Ants live underground, and so does your lawn’s root system. If you have a big ant colony on your hands, the tunnels can become a problem for the lawn’s roots. When the tunnels become too extensive, they can harm and weaken your lawn’s root system.
Ants Make Holes in Your Yard
While ants are hard at work growing and feeding their colony, their home is getting bigger and bigger. One big problem I have noticed with this is that they actually start to make a hole in the lawn. As they are aerating the lawn, they are actually making voids or pockets in the lawn’s soil.
Ants Plant Weeds in Your Lawn
Ants taking grass seeds down into the soil sounds like a pretty good idea. But whether your lawn actually ever goes to seed is another question. I know that I cut my lawn regularly, so I never get seed heads on my lawn.
So, the only seeds that might really be available for ants are seeds from any weeds that have managed to skip my attention. The idea that ants are seeding your lawn may really be a case that they are planting weeds.
The ants in my yard are defective, they just keep carrying aphids into my potted plants. Shit gets annoying.
When you kill an ant mound you just make an opening for yellow jackets to use for their ground nest.
>Girlfriend's grandma asks if I can trim some trees for her on the side of the property nobody goes to anymore
>Tree is in a flower bed kinda thing
>Hop over some plants
>Sink multiple inches upon landing
>Suddenly pain, assume ants, really really fast ants
>Bolt, pain growing
>Throw off my shoes and pants
>Yellow jackets got in my shoes and pants legs and were stinging me over and over
Fricking hate wasps. Little buttholes.
Stepping in one while mowing. Even in a full sprint a half dozen got into the house either on me stinging or in chase and the rest swarmed the mower for hours. The next day I took two full cans and John Woo'd the nest.
That's why i use plastic explosive
Borax bait, perimeter anywhere you don't want them to go with Sevin or bifenthrin. If you garden, dust around plants with Sevin
Find the nest. Find where they are getting water.
Y'all talking about yards, in talking about concrete.
Give them a dose of Terro
diesel and a match then more diesel
Behead Ants, Fry Ants in a wok, Crush Ant larva with steel-toed boots, Karate chop an Ant Queen into a wood-chipping machine.
give some teenagers propane torches and let them kill them all day for free.
Unironically pic related
Apply product with fipronil at .4 oz to the gallon around home and cracks and crevices in pavement
Gas and a match on their nest.
How about boiler water?