Fire Ant – Control Organically
Fighting fire ants is tough enough…but doing it organically is even tougher.
Dr Bart Drees, at the Texas Imported Fire Ant Research center, says there is a way!
He suggests modifying the “Texas Two-Step” method to use organic insecticides:
Spread a product containing the bacterial insecticide spinosad bait (click for sources).
Then drench the mound with a product containing orange oil (click for sources) or spinosad (click for sources).