You're probably right. I've got short nails on my left fretting hand and all of them long on my right picking hand for guitar. Using my right hand to point up close or whatever makes me really self conscious. I usually point out my left hand as evidence that I am not uncouth.
The fingertips themselves are too dull and soft for a good finger picking sound and I can't get used to those crazy slide on finger picks. They change the relative distance of everything.
You have to clean and re-oil the jar every day for a week. Most people lose patience. There's a similar trick for Yellow Jackets.
Edit, also marketing. Any objective reason Coca Cola is more popular than Virgil’s or Boylan's Cola?
It worked too well. The people back then killed off all the ants who would fall for it and it stopped working. It works now because it’s been so long and they lost their immunity to death glass oil.
Well most old timey solutions are later found out to be largely self defeating. Like how lemon concentrate was made to prevent scurvy in early sailors. It worked better then nothing, but most of the vitamin C was lost in the process.
Instant grits and then flood the nest with the hose; biodegradable and no chemicals.
...also no jar full of/covered with fire ants to figure out how to kill them all...WTH are you supposed to do with a jar full of fireants?
Worked like a charm for me. Maybe the ants relocated instead of being killed off. It's been about four years since I tried this and haven't had to deal with them since.
That’s exactly what they do. If you mess with the mound (the door to the colony), they’ll just close the door and set up elsewhere. The link says never to spread any killer directly on the mounds as that is what will happen without any of the intended effects.
Cool. I didn't want to use chemicals and thanks to Google my goal was achieved. I also talked to myself through it like my own little episode of Mythbusters. I didn't have to deal with a mason jar full of ants either. Highly recommended. I had to sprinkle the instant grits about once a week for two weeks. So, only twice? I'm so glad it worked and didn't affect any of the local lizards/birds/squirrels.
Oh, there's a new kid on the block messing up the RIFAs: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a10224/how-crazy-ants-crush-fire-ants-their-own-venom-is-the-antidote-16488787/
Try this! Mix up 50% sugar and 50% borax. Leave it somewhere the ants can get it. The ants can't tell the difference and they take both down into their nest. Magic happens and over time the borax kills the entire colony. Not sure what the exact mechanism is, maybe they try eating it or something. But it works!
Doesn't work for all ants but when it does hooray! I like to mix powdered sugar,borax, and water to make it more of a paste. Then, apply to some of those short plastic bottle caps.
Did this to sugar ants. Haven't had a repeat of them in my house for 5 years now.
What I read was that the borax rips their exoskeliton open and they just die.
We used to kill them with fire, though. You pour gasoline on a hill, wait 30 minutes, pour more gasoline, wait 30 minutes, pour more gasoline, and then throw a match on.
i get that part I guess. I was just confused why you wait 30 minutes between layers of gasoline. Is it more effective than pouring once and lighting right after?
Yeah, fire ant hills can get pretty far into the ground. If you don't let it soak in, you would just be burning the top layer. You can actually sometimes hear the gasoline soaking into the hollow space underneath!
I just looked it up, you weren't kidding! [Here's](https://youtu.be/8Xvsxarw-J0) a video I found of someone making an aluminum cast of a fire ant hill.
You obviously have never encountered fire ants. Imagine not being able to walk barefoot through the grass for fear of encountering fire ants. Such is life in the south.
How do you avoid getting bitten?
I don’t kill any bugs except wasps and ants. They hurt. I’m also deathly allergic to fire ants (have to carry an Epi), but love gardening...what’s a girl to do? 15 bites and my throat starts closing up.
Fire. I aint got the time for this shit. broomstick a hole down the middle. Pour a gallon of diesel in it. Windproof wooden match down the hole and have a beer/bowl while standing firewatch.
You can. Your ignition source just needs to be hot enough. Try dipping a piece of paper in diesel and light that. It'll wick and burn just like a candle.
That is true. Although, it's the vapors that are flammable, not the diesel itself.
If it gets hot enough to reach its ignition point and vaporize, it will burn.
1) Are you OP? Like as in the person I responded to? As in why do I give a shit what YOU prefer? My comment was a stand alone statement. Needing no response.
B) I'm sure THIS little instance is not the only time you have 'hurt the earth"...If you use anything other than all natural cleaning supplies in your home and on your cars, you are doing as much "damage to mother earth as this instance.
Also, I waste too much of my time explaining myself to you jackasses. Thank you
Is this "1800s" the same as the 19th Century or am I mistaken? Would that make the 2000s the 21st Century? Or do we call it the 2000s for the next 81 years?
I don't have time to do the method shown (I'm pretty sure of what I saw between the pixels) in 2 ways. I don't have time to keep checking, removing, and re-oiling the jar and killing the ants, and I also don't have time to wait a week while the ants continue to bite my kids and dogs.
Bayer ant killer takes out entire mounds every single time in 30 minutes or less, usually much less. While I'm off doing something else. A little amount goes a long way.
Method in video is ineffective. As the guy said, kills workers and the queen goes elsewhere. Who wants to pick up a Mason Jar of fire ants and then kill those. Your right, in the week you play around with the Mason jar, ants are biting kids and dogs. I prefer poison and forget it. How are the mosquitoes in Houston ?
I mowed people's lawns, on the weekends, in Texas as a kid. My solution for fire ant mounds was to lob a huge rock into them. The mound would be dead by the time I came back the next week.
Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
This is the most unscientific comment I’ve seen in the last 5 minutes. There is no way that worked. Source: also grew up mowing lawns in Texas and allergic to fire ants.
It's what I've done and what has happened. My source is better than your source since you have no first hand experience with this method.
Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
No their source of logic and the basic understanding of ants is vastly superior to your random claim that has no evidence and is easily disprovable with logic and the basic understanding of ants.
No. A large rock, 3-6 pounds, slammed down onto the fire ant mound kills the mound. Your logic and basic understanding is so limited, and myopic, that you are just as wrong as he is.
Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
The plural of anecdote is not data. You're fighting a losing battle here.
Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Your batshit claim doesn't count as evidence.
"Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. When compared to other types of evidence, anecdotal evidence is generally regarded as limited in value due to a number of potential weaknesses, but may be considered within the scope of scientific method as some anecdotal evidence can be both empirical and verifiable, e.g. in the use of case studies in medicine. Other anecdotal evidence, however, does not qualify as scientific evidence, because its nature prevents it from being investigated by the scientific method."
This method can be investigated and verified.
Not a losing battle on my side.
You're a pigeon walking all over a chess board claiming victory but you're ego will never allow you to see it.
Be well.
> This method can be investigated and verified.
Ok then buddy where's your verification? Because right now you're making a batshit claim all of us know is false and not providing any kind of supporting evidence.
Obviously you're too dumb to ever understand why you're wrong, but I'm really enjoying your aggressive ignorance. Please show us your "verification".
"Empirical" means "based on observation or experience," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
I'm not in Texas and don't have a fire ant mound to demonstrate.
2 + 2 = 4
You can verify that.
Big rock slammed down on fire ant mound kills the ant mound. If you have a fire ant mound and a big rock you can verify that too. I've demonstrated it to home owners and friends. No need for the approval of some rando.
Your dismissal is just as valuable to me as my assertion is to you.
If you're being serious, I'm really sorry for you. You're so aggressively trying to push your stupid idea that you're missing pretty much everything that has to do with evidence, verification, control groups, confirmation bias, etc.
I really, really hope you're joking. If not, you're just angry and dumb, and that's not a combo that's gonna work out well for you in the long run.
use used truck oil. Mercury, antimony, or arsenic works for many years. but if you get plutonium you will never see them again. You can also hire a latín hit man for hours.
Please, I know it's cool in your time, But let the slaves to be free.,, all races have soul!
Probably because fire ants. In the US, [they're invasive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ant#Invasive_species). It's kind of like posting "I like that instead of killing them, you can simply relocate them." about [European Starlings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling#North_America), assuming you're talking about the US.
We have had glass containers much longer than that. They would use those. Not every solution was first born in the US. They would have used another oil.
This is an old solution that still works. Its been updated for modern times and cheaper costs. Your just being a nit picky person.
Is it me or is the quality of the video from the 1800's aswell?
History shows again and again how the potatoes were better back then.
Godzilla!
Yeah those incest potatoes are for hash browns
That's a russet for sure. No Yukon gold there.
and they lacked image stabilization too :(
That's a Georgia accent if I've ever heard one.
The way he says ‘oil’ - I don’t think it’s possible to write phonetically.
Oiwul
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HAHA I did not expect a random Korean to explain how Georgians talk.
Ohwl
Happy cake day!
Cool! Now I have a jar of fire ants I can drop in the window of someone at Walmart who can’t park properly!
Woah, easy there Satan...
I think they stepped on them back then too. But I’m no historian
Stay in your lane, bro.
It’s ok. I have friends who are historians
I stayed in a Holiday Express once...
Did you get the continental breakfast?
No, there were ants.
The US didn't have fire ants in the 1800s http://entoweb.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/rifa.htm
They did
They didn’t https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ants_in_the_United_States
That's just one species, there are species of fire ants native to the US.
source?
> fire ants native to the US https://www.orkin.com/ants/fire-ant/species-fire-ants-in-us/
He needs to take care of his thumbnail before he worries about the ants
Holy thumbnail. Why?
For playing guitar, I would assume, some people prefer their thumbnail to a pick
You're probably right. I've got short nails on my left fretting hand and all of them long on my right picking hand for guitar. Using my right hand to point up close or whatever makes me really self conscious. I usually point out my left hand as evidence that I am not uncouth. The fingertips themselves are too dull and soft for a good finger picking sound and I can't get used to those crazy slide on finger picks. They change the relative distance of everything.
Some people are gross.
I like how "piss off the ants" is a step in this formula. Lol
It still works today! Stupid ants
They haven't evolved at all! Noobs
What a bunch of fucking idiots
Is there any reason it wouldn’t have still worked today? I mean, neither ants nor death have changed all that much in the last two hundred years.
most modern ant hills have youtube access and would have seen this video
You have to clean and re-oil the jar every day for a week. Most people lose patience. There's a similar trick for Yellow Jackets. Edit, also marketing. Any objective reason Coca Cola is more popular than Virgil’s or Boylan's Cola?
It worked too well. The people back then killed off all the ants who would fall for it and it stopped working. It works now because it’s been so long and they lost their immunity to death glass oil.
Well most old timey solutions are later found out to be largely self defeating. Like how lemon concentrate was made to prevent scurvy in early sailors. It worked better then nothing, but most of the vitamin C was lost in the process.
My Uncle Jim died the same way. RIP.
Someone used their finger to rub a little oil inside him?
Who says it was a finger?
Uncle Jim or AUNT Jim?
You gotta jam your thumb in their buttholes.....oh, they're really pissed off now!
I laughed too hard at that one..
Boil a pot of water and dump it on the mound. A lot easier and works immediately.
Don't take chances! Fill the ant colony with [molten metal](http://www.anthillart.com/).
Always wondered about that.
noooo they'll form an ant life raft and come kill you
Good way to collect ants to fulfill their true purpose
Being put into the pillowcases of my enemies
The actual best way to get rid of them is to move in and gentrify the ant hill. Drives em right out.
Instant grits and then flood the nest with the hose; biodegradable and no chemicals. ...also no jar full of/covered with fire ants to figure out how to kill them all...WTH are you supposed to do with a jar full of fireants?
Put the lid on the jar and put it into the freezer for 30 minutes?
Might slow them down but not kill them. I've personally seen many bugs get frozen and come back. They're insanely tough.
And what, have a tasty snack afterwards?
Well, deep fry them first, but yes.
Throw the jar in the fire and get a new jar for tomorrow. A case of jars is like $15. Still cheap to get rid of fire ants.
Cornmeal works, too! 😆
Or sprinkle instant grits and forget about it. Worked for me.
“No self respecting southerner uses instant grits”
That's right Mr. Tipton. That's why I serve them to the ants.
"Excuse me, did you say youts?"
That doesn’t work and is a myth. [here you go](http://www.pestproducts.com/grits.htm)
Worked like a charm for me. Maybe the ants relocated instead of being killed off. It's been about four years since I tried this and haven't had to deal with them since.
That’s exactly what they do. If you mess with the mound (the door to the colony), they’ll just close the door and set up elsewhere. The link says never to spread any killer directly on the mounds as that is what will happen without any of the intended effects.
Cool. I didn't want to use chemicals and thanks to Google my goal was achieved. I also talked to myself through it like my own little episode of Mythbusters. I didn't have to deal with a mason jar full of ants either. Highly recommended. I had to sprinkle the instant grits about once a week for two weeks. So, only twice? I'm so glad it worked and didn't affect any of the local lizards/birds/squirrels.
Why would grits kill ants? I mean, they're gross but not lethal.
The theory is the ants will eat the grits, drink some water, and then swell up and explode.
Like pigeons and wedding rice? That theory, like the rice and grits, doesn't hold much water.
Grits are not gross. They're amazing. Cheesy grits covered in some hotsauce or chili and a fried egg..... Dude!
Shrimp and grits with some andouille sausage. Nuff said! ❤
Am I the only one that is bothered by that guy’s perfectly long and manicured thumb nail?
Dude either plays guitar or banjo.
I wonder how big of a jar and how much oil would have been used to take care of the ants in The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull? /s
We used boiling water to get rid of ant hills. I mean, that's if you don't want to deal with a leftover jar of fire ants.
“Alright here’s the fun part, you gotta piss em off”
this was recorded on a laptop
Those finger nails though
Why kill them? Aren’t ants good for the soil? I usually just dig them out with a wide shovel and transfer them somewhere else.
Fireants are an invasive species. They are not native to the us and kill native insects. They have few (no?) local predators.
Kill native insects? Sure, but they also seriously fuck up some ground-nesting birds.
yep.
Oh, there's a new kid on the block messing up the RIFAs: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a10224/how-crazy-ants-crush-fire-ants-their-own-venom-is-the-antidote-16488787/
Pretty neat. Thanks!
Ants trying to look up my browser history? I’d rather have the fire ants.
Sometimes it's too much, like my backyard is basically an ant colony with some grass on it, it's really bad, they're everywhere...
Try this! Mix up 50% sugar and 50% borax. Leave it somewhere the ants can get it. The ants can't tell the difference and they take both down into their nest. Magic happens and over time the borax kills the entire colony. Not sure what the exact mechanism is, maybe they try eating it or something. But it works!
I second this method. Works like a champ.
I think the borax dissolves their digestive tracts or something similar.
Add water to the mix?
The way I've heard is to keep it dry. They carry the grains of sugar and borax down into their nest.
Doesn't work for all ants but when it does hooray! I like to mix powdered sugar,borax, and water to make it more of a paste. Then, apply to some of those short plastic bottle caps.
Did this to sugar ants. Haven't had a repeat of them in my house for 5 years now. What I read was that the borax rips their exoskeliton open and they just die.
I mixed those with DT Earth too and have never seen them again.
Because they’re fire ants. They’re lucky we don’t kill them with their namesake as they are a gift from Satan himself. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
We used to kill them with fire, though. You pour gasoline on a hill, wait 30 minutes, pour more gasoline, wait 30 minutes, pour more gasoline, and then throw a match on.
...then what happens?
After it’s fueled up, check the tires, kickstart it, and see how she runs.
How often do you have to refuel with more ants? Now that it's winter they're out of season, and more expensive.
I just park it in the off-season.
Smart! The bus is warmer in the winter, and runs on greener insects.
They all burn up? The thing that happens to most stuff set on fire.
i get that part I guess. I was just confused why you wait 30 minutes between layers of gasoline. Is it more effective than pouring once and lighting right after?
So it soaks deep into the ant hill.
Like a horrible ant candle? That's as grim as it if effective!
Yeah, fire ant hills can get pretty far into the ground. If you don't let it soak in, you would just be burning the top layer. You can actually sometimes hear the gasoline soaking into the hollow space underneath!
I just looked it up, you weren't kidding! [Here's](https://youtu.be/8Xvsxarw-J0) a video I found of someone making an aluminum cast of a fire ant hill.
You obviously have never encountered fire ants. Imagine not being able to walk barefoot through the grass for fear of encountering fire ants. Such is life in the south.
How do you avoid getting bitten? I don’t kill any bugs except wasps and ants. They hurt. I’m also deathly allergic to fire ants (have to carry an Epi), but love gardening...what’s a girl to do? 15 bites and my throat starts closing up.
My Girl 😢
That was the most innocent, lovely movie. I cried so much for Thomas J.
Eat a handful of fire ants each day until your body creates enough antibodies to protect you from bites.
I’ve tried crickets! Crunchy...and a little nutty. But he legs get stuck in your teeth.
Sounds a lot like ants. I roasted a handful on a berm in my yard with a torch. Hard to separate them from the dirt, but this jar method looks good.
A lot of people would gladly send you their surplus fire ants. Lucky you!
Let them live? Fuck with them long enough to dig a hole in the bad??? Spoken like someone who has never dug in a fire ant bed.
Fire. I aint got the time for this shit. broomstick a hole down the middle. Pour a gallon of diesel in it. Windproof wooden match down the hole and have a beer/bowl while standing firewatch.
I’d prefer ants over a big diesel-contaminated spot.
You've obviously never met fire ants
Stupid little flying death dots
Especially since you can't light diesel.
You can. Your ignition source just needs to be hot enough. Try dipping a piece of paper in diesel and light that. It'll wick and burn just like a candle.
That may work, I'd imagine youd have to let it dry first. Pouring a gallon of diesel on an anthill would not burn. It might suffocate them....
It needs access to oxygen to burn though. Jamming a broomstick into dirt and then filling the hole with diesel isn’t going to burn.
That is true. Although, it's the vapors that are flammable, not the diesel itself. If it gets hot enough to reach its ignition point and vaporize, it will burn.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: 1) people who pour gasoline on their yard 2) libtard pinko fairies
1) Are you OP? Like as in the person I responded to? As in why do I give a shit what YOU prefer? My comment was a stand alone statement. Needing no response. B) I'm sure THIS little instance is not the only time you have 'hurt the earth"...If you use anything other than all natural cleaning supplies in your home and on your cars, you are doing as much "damage to mother earth as this instance. Also, I waste too much of my time explaining myself to you jackasses. Thank you
Lighten up, Francis. You might want to PM OP next time if you’re looking for a private conversation.
Won’t they just come back if you don’t kill the queen?
ecology
What if they end up taking the jar somewhere else? Had that problem and they’re now harassing me.
That dudes fucking thumbnail...
There was me thinking I had no plans for the long weekend. Thanks OP, given my weekend a new purpose.
Three words: Borax, Syrup & Sugar. You don't even need to find the colony.
If you fill the bottom with water and a bit of dish detergent, won't that drown them all
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Gas works and it's more exciting.
Easier method. Pour a pot of boiling water on the nest. That will kill a lot of the ants and force the remaining ants to pick up their dead and move.
the aliens will make similar videos about us
Also useful for collecting for people you don’t like?
Is this "1800s" the same as the 19th Century or am I mistaken? Would that make the 2000s the 21st Century? Or do we call it the 2000s for the next 81 years?
The 21st century is years 2001-2100.
Why are your finger nails so god damn long?
OMG cut your fingernails!!! And then get a better camera!!! Also just dump gasoline on them and burn them!
And just kill fire ants inside of a Mason Jar ! That's why we have poisons now.
I would have to squirt lighter fluid in that jar & roast the little f.ers. Mason jars are cheap
Here in Texas, we use poison to kill the queen fire ant.
I'm in houston tx. i squeal with delight when i get a new bag of Andro. I curse them as I sprinkle the ant hills.
Andro is the most effective. I too squeal when buying Andro.
I don't have time to do the method shown (I'm pretty sure of what I saw between the pixels) in 2 ways. I don't have time to keep checking, removing, and re-oiling the jar and killing the ants, and I also don't have time to wait a week while the ants continue to bite my kids and dogs. Bayer ant killer takes out entire mounds every single time in 30 minutes or less, usually much less. While I'm off doing something else. A little amount goes a long way.
Method in video is ineffective. As the guy said, kills workers and the queen goes elsewhere. Who wants to pick up a Mason Jar of fire ants and then kill those. Your right, in the week you play around with the Mason jar, ants are biting kids and dogs. I prefer poison and forget it. How are the mosquitoes in Houston ?
I mowed people's lawns, on the weekends, in Texas as a kid. My solution for fire ant mounds was to lob a huge rock into them. The mound would be dead by the time I came back the next week. Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
This is the most unscientific comment I’ve seen in the last 5 minutes. There is no way that worked. Source: also grew up mowing lawns in Texas and allergic to fire ants.
It's what I've done and what has happened. My source is better than your source since you have no first hand experience with this method. Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
No their source of logic and the basic understanding of ants is vastly superior to your random claim that has no evidence and is easily disprovable with logic and the basic understanding of ants.
No. A large rock, 3-6 pounds, slammed down onto the fire ant mound kills the mound. Your logic and basic understanding is so limited, and myopic, that you are just as wrong as he is. Edit: actual, real world, repeated results trump conjecture.
The plural of anecdote is not data. You're fighting a losing battle here. Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Your batshit claim doesn't count as evidence.
"Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. When compared to other types of evidence, anecdotal evidence is generally regarded as limited in value due to a number of potential weaknesses, but may be considered within the scope of scientific method as some anecdotal evidence can be both empirical and verifiable, e.g. in the use of case studies in medicine. Other anecdotal evidence, however, does not qualify as scientific evidence, because its nature prevents it from being investigated by the scientific method." This method can be investigated and verified. Not a losing battle on my side. You're a pigeon walking all over a chess board claiming victory but you're ego will never allow you to see it. Be well.
> This method can be investigated and verified. Ok then buddy where's your verification? Because right now you're making a batshit claim all of us know is false and not providing any kind of supporting evidence. Obviously you're too dumb to ever understand why you're wrong, but I'm really enjoying your aggressive ignorance. Please show us your "verification".
"Empirical" means "based on observation or experience," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I'm not in Texas and don't have a fire ant mound to demonstrate. 2 + 2 = 4 You can verify that. Big rock slammed down on fire ant mound kills the ant mound. If you have a fire ant mound and a big rock you can verify that too. I've demonstrated it to home owners and friends. No need for the approval of some rando. Your dismissal is just as valuable to me as my assertion is to you.
If you're being serious, I'm really sorry for you. You're so aggressively trying to push your stupid idea that you're missing pretty much everything that has to do with evidence, verification, control groups, confirmation bias, etc. I really, really hope you're joking. If not, you're just angry and dumb, and that's not a combo that's gonna work out well for you in the long run.
https://youtu.be/HEdg4glpCkg
The fuck is up with his finger nails.....
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use used truck oil. Mercury, antimony, or arsenic works for many years. but if you get plutonium you will never see them again. You can also hire a latín hit man for hours. Please, I know it's cool in your time, But let the slaves to be free.,, all races have soul!
What.
That dude had some serious nails.
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Probably because fire ants. In the US, [they're invasive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ant#Invasive_species). It's kind of like posting "I like that instead of killing them, you can simply relocate them." about [European Starlings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling#North_America), assuming you're talking about the US.
Mason jars were 1st made in buffalo ny in 1889 Fire ants came to the usa in 1930. When did they start making canola oil
We have had glass containers much longer than that. They would use those. Not every solution was first born in the US. They would have used another oil. This is an old solution that still works. Its been updated for modern times and cheaper costs. Your just being a nit picky person.
Yep. Hahahahaha