Bittersweet Gardens
Fire Ant Cures and Fallacies


 

  • Grated orange and grapefruit peelings on the mound.

  • Sprinkle grits on the mound.  Ants are supposed to swell up and die after eating them.

  • Drench the mound with boiling water.

  • Carry a shovelful of ants from one mound to another and they will go to war and kill each other.

  • Sprinkle Copenhagen tobacco on top of the mound and worker ants will carry it below - then when the Queen comes up to spit, you stomp her to death!

  • Feed them beans, cover the mound with plastic and they will asphyxiate themselves!