I have SOOOO many ANTS in my lawn on Long Island NY?

Question

Please help me figure out what tyes & treatments?

#1 are small blackish colored about 1/8 " and tons will swarm out of the ground and bite/attack if disturbed! They live in the grass & have small anthills. Look like the common ant.

#2 are large maybe 1/4" or more and black. I see them either on the ground coming from holes without hills or climbing the trees.

#3 are as large as #2 but with wings!! They will make a mass flying exodus from the ground which can last a couple days. THEY COME OUT OF THE SAME HOLES #1 ANTS DO!

#1 ants seem to be assisting in making the holes bigger for them to get out!

#4 teeny tiny 1/16-1/8" blackish living in wood arbor under grapevine and are all over it.

#5 Last!! Redish-orange also bite/attack & live mostly near rosebushes & in lawn also!

Im new to this house & I can't believe the amount of ants I have... They have decimated the grass at they're favorite locations having probably near 10 anthills per 10 ft!

HELP PLEEEASE!

Answer 1

sell a house and go to another house or you just buy something at walmart like to kill ants .

Answer 2

thats awsome a good idea what i did was drop an m80 fire work in thier hole and i guarentee all the ants will fly now

Answer 3

First of all, don't waste your time trying to kill the ants with cinnamon/sugar, grits or any other food. Ants don't eat solid food.

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It sounds like you need to quit being cheap and purchase a pest control service. I'll try to help identify the ants by description, but seriously, why put yourself through all of this?

I'll list them by ant type that is most likely for each number.

1. Odorous House Ant. Pavement Ant. Imported Fire Ant.

2. Cone Ant. Velvety Tree Ant.

3. They are just the alates (reproductive queens and kings) of the same species of ants. They're always bigger.

4. Acrobat Ants. Little Black Ants. Odorous House Ants.

5. Fire Ants. Harvester Ants. Red Imported Fire Ants.

A good pest control technician can wipe them out without harming you, your family or your property. However, it may take two treatments.

How I would do it:

1. Evaluate the size of the property and estimate how long it would take to do the treatment.

2. Estimate how much material it would take.

3. Price accordingly.

4. Do treatment.

5. Return in two weeks to make sure there aren't any more ant nests near the home, and if there are any, re-treat.

6. If I had to re-treat, come back in two more weeks just to be sure.

7. Rinse, repeat.

Find a company that will give you a retreat guarantee. That means that whether they'll guarantee it for one, two or three months, if you need them to come back, they will at no extra charge.

Give the very busy guys a break though - it may take them up to a week to get out there if they're busy.

Answer 4

Use a mix of cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle it here and there. The ants will come and pick up the sugar, along with the cinnamon, and take it back to their queen. Ants can’t digest cinnamon and once the queen dies from not being able to digest the cinnamon the colony will die without her.

Answer 5

#3 are the reproductive males and females of #1 swarming out to fly and mate and then the males die and the fertilized females try to find a new place to set up a nest.

#2 might be carpenter ants and are living in a chuck of wood underground. They won't bother you.

I wish I had red-orange ants. There used to be a place with a colony of black ants and a colony of red-orange ants living within three feet of one another in a ditch. They lived there for years, until I got curious and dug up the place where their colonies were. I found a piece of a tree trunk buried within a foot of the surface which had the queen black ant in it and a bunch of eggs and pupae and all that. I reburied the tree chunk but the red-orange ants disappeared immediately and the black ants kinda slowly died out.

So, just disturbing their nests by digging around might drive them away or kill them.

All those ants have to be eating something. If there is garbage around then *bingo* they are eating that.

10 hills per 10 feet sounds like fire ants but I don't thin they are in new york. Why don't you dig down and find out what is underground that they are soooo attracted to? Maybe you can get rid of that. I wouldn't poison my yard just to get rid of ants. Find what they like underground and change that. Otherwise you will just poison your yard for nothing and more ants will just keep moving in.

Answer 6

Those with wings may be termites, which along with carpenter (I believe) ants will destroy the wood in your house, deck, garage, etc. You can look up ant eradication on the Internet & try natural methods. So far I find those to be very temporary cures. I have an allergic reaction to the tiny ones & swell up where they bite me. As a kid the red ants were considered dangerous with their potent sting. I don't have as much variety as you but when it gets hot the ants invade. They destroy plants, food, pet's food & water. I have been told that if you keep your house cool & your yard well watered they are less of a problem. I currently don't have those options. It sounds like you need to contact some exterminators. Get a few quotes after you do some research & get references so you don't  get stung by them too.  Good luck.

Answer 7

I dig out the middle of th mound, fast.  Get to an egg chamber then spray them with an ant killer, and back off.  Once you get the eggs, they die off.  You may have to retreat after digging for a minute, and then try again when they settle down.  

At least they aren't s bad as fire ants in Georgia!