I just did the evening fire ant check. I am pleased. I appear to be winning this war more quickly than I anticipated!

The original monster colony has not a single ant moving anywhere near any of the mounds or tunnels. The second monster colony has a few workers wandering around somewhat aimlessly, but mostly there are just Ghost Ants hauling off the spoils of war –dead ants and dead ant eggs. That leaves the two mounds in the far back yard, which I guess I’ll get started on tomorrow.

This is working much better than I expected and a whole lot faster. I fully expected it to be “kill some here one day, they move there the next” kind of thing. But no, I seem to be getting rid of them pretty quickly. Faster than most of the standard poisons, actually.

I guess now I’ll have to add “walking the whole yard looking for fire ant mounds” to my weekly task list … right up there with “walking the yard and chopping down baby pear trees.” I will have a fire ant and pear tree free yard! Yippee!