How to Lure Fire Ants From Your Garden

Fire ants built their hill right in my sweet potatoes last year. I found out that ants are attracted to electricity. So I came up with a solution with some things just lying around the house.

Things You'll Need:

* One or more Solar powered lawn lamps.
* Thick Work Gloves (optional).

Step 1
First of all,you can get Solar lamps for your walkways just about anywhere like Wal-mart, Lowe's, K-mart, any hardware store. They come in packs. I use the plastic ones.

Step 2

Assemble one of the lamps (They are pretty strait forward) and stake it down outside of your garden area but as near as you can get it to the ant hill in your garden. The ants will be attracted to the lamp and in a week or so they will have their nest built around the lamp.

Step 3

Slowly repeat this process to get the fire ants out of the way so you can tend to your garden. You've got enough weeds to worry about without fooling with fire ants.

Tips & Warnings

• This worked for me so I suggest you give it a shot.
• You can use multiple lamps if there are multiple fire ant hills in your garden.
• The lamp will most likely be full of dirt and fire ants when you remove it from the fire ant hill.
• Be careful when removing the lamp from the fire ant hill once they build around it.
• Good Idea To Wear Thick Work Gloves.
• You have to grab onto the lamp,yank it up, and toss it away from the ant hill preferably onto some grass so not to damage the lamp. Let it sit for a moment and let some of the ants crawl off. Determine another spot a few feet further from the ant hill and further from your garden that is out of your way. Then quickly and lightly grab the lamp and stake it in the new location. A week or so later they will have moved and built a new hill around the new lamp location.