Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 3.1 x 3.1 x 8.9 inches ; 1.2 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
- ASIN: B000RNB8OC
- Item model number: 53941
By : Spectracide
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Product Description
Spectracide Triazicide Once and Done. Insect Killer Granules, 1 lb. - 53941
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 3.1 x 3.1 x 8.9 inches ; 1.2 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
- ASIN: B000RNB8OC
- Item model number: 53941
Product Features
- Kills over 40 types of lawn invading insects on contact
- Kills insects above and below ground
- Won't harm plants or vegetables
- Season long control - up to 2-month
- 1-Pound granules
Customer Reviews
I got some of this to get rid of a nest of red fire ants that's going out in my yard. It says Once and Done, or something like that. Ayah, right. After I first sprinkled a bunch of it on the center of the nest the ants went berserk! They actually started swarming toward where I was standing! So I backed off and left them alone for awhile. Went back after a couple of hours and all the poison was gone and there was maybe a dozen dead ants and the others were hard at work, as usual. Sprinkled some more on them. Again they started swarming towards me. So I backed off and went around to the other side of the nest to watch them. Individual ants started picking up pieces of the poison and carrying it, not into the nest as expected but away from the nest! They would take the piece out 3 to 6 feet or so away and place it just so, usually under a stick or something, and then go back for another one. The ones carrying it away did die after a few trips but another was right there to takes its place. After a about an hour they had it all cleaned up and back to business as usual. I dusted them one more time yesterday then left them alone. This morning they had carried all the dead ones over to an area about a foot in diameter and 3 or 4 feet away from the nest. There's about 2 or 3 dozen or so dead ants in the small area. And it also looks like they have carried a lot of the poison over to the same area instead of just taking it away like they first started to do. It's just as if they knew it was poison and any of them that touched it would die. And they even took the ones away that had died from it instead of doing whatever they usually do with their dead. And the way they acted when I dusted them with it. I'm 6'4" and have a long reach and I didn't get any closer to the nest than I had to. But they seemed to know just where I was and that I was trying to harm the nest. They also seemed to ignore me until I started dusting the nest then almost all of them at once turned and started coming for me! That is the weirdest thing that I have ever seen ants do! Well, this whole thing is way weird behavior for ants! But at any rate, this poison didn't do a thing to drive out the nest. If I had a tripod for my video camera I'd record them doing this. Without a tripod I can't hold my camera still enough while zoomed in on them to get a good recording.
UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2011
I'm not sure but I think I finally killed the nest! But, it could be just because winter and cold weather has hit so they've gone down. What I think finally got them was I had a 24oz bottle of Mountain Dew that had gone flat so I sprinkled a bunch of this poison on them and then pored the Mountain Dew on it. They sure got excited about that! The next day there were several dead ants on the nest. I was hoping that the sugar from the Mountain Dew on the poison would get them to take it down into the nest. I had finally got tired of messing with these things so I wet down the nest, gave it a good dusting dose of the poison, and then got my shovel and started turning over the dirt a deep spade full at a time. I turned over the whole nest, a circle about 6 feet across, and dusted it with the poison and wet it down again. That was about 3 to 4 weeks ago and I haven't seen one of those red ants again. Maybe it finally killed them out. Or maybe by turning over the ground a spade deep I destroyed all the tunnels to the surface deep enough that they cant dig themselves up and out. Guess I'll find out for sure next spring.
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