What’s Happening To Our Anthills?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Image by macropoulos via Flickr

I thought I would update you on how our ant problem is going. If you missed our first post about getting rid of anthills by getting rid of the ants first you can just follow the link.

We tried using cornmeal for the first time and then it started to rain. It rained for days after we put the first cornmeal out for the ants. It didn’t rain for a few hours after the first application of cornmeal.

I was curious to see how the cornmeal worked, if at all, so I went out just a few minutes ago.

We have had a couple of nice days and things are starting to dry out.

When I checked the anthill before we applied cornmeal there were hundreds of the little critters marching around. This morning when I checked there were about 3 maybe 4 ants.

I don’t want to get too excited at the results as they may just be lazy ants and still in bed, so I will go out again after lunch and take another peek.

So, even though the rain most likely ruined the cornmeal it still devastated the anthill, so I think one more application of cornmeal should do the trick, especially if it doesn’t rain for a day.