How to destroy an anthill?

[imnot]

Grenade, Canadians carry greandes with them right, just stick that down there and run like hell.

 

[RandV80]

Hah, all these fun ideas has me wondering what it would be like to simply blow the shit out of an anthill. A pure fantasy scenario for most kids, but as a teen my dad had worked in the forestry industry with a small drilling and blasting company. I had knowledge, experience, and if I was stupid and determined access to, high grade industrial explosives. This stuff is made for shattering solid rock so in fresh dirt the shockwave alone from a single stick should kill everything the ground for a good 5-10 foot radius at least, and the ants would be flying everywhere! The tricky part would be how to insert it, because you can't exactly drill a hole into dirt like you do solid rock and you'd want it as far down and as compact as possible for best effect.

 

[Kroxile]

take a shovel to it and then put some form of insecticide into the hole. worked for me when my wife and I had a fire ant invasion a couple years ago.

 

[Thundero13]

BURN THEM, BURN THEM ALL!
Or I dunno some sort of bug-killer it'd be better to ask a professional rather than an idiot like me

 

[Whateveralot]

This must be the funniest thread I've seen today. I am totally addicited to this community and it's flawless ability to make me laugh all the time.

For the subject matter, I'll seriously advice you to try fire out first. If it fails, there are other options. Don't forget to set up a camera for the final step (setting fire). Enjoy!

 

[Kaltazraza]

Punch it

If one isn't enough, just punch it some more, unless it's fire ants of course.

 

[teebeeohh]

nuke it from orbit, the only way to be sure.

 

[Cheesezorz]

Orbital bombardment.

Solves most of my problems.

 

[alandavidson]

Diesel fuel and matches.

 

[Crazycat690]

Fire, and lots of it, or... If you have the patience, wait for winter, then stick a metal pipe deep down, it'll lead the cold down there and kill all the buggers in their sleep, good choice if you don't want them to suffer, however if you do want them to suffer, fire and poison. But whatever you do, don't smash their home, them they will go to war against you and you don't want that, kill em all at the same time!

 

[B33J33]

Spoiler

Try and snipe their antenna so that they will frenzy and attack each other.

 

[Brandon237]

If you cannot solve a problem with fire or love, why the hell would you want to solve it at all?!

Hmmm new plan:
1. Infiltrate Hive
2. Seduce ant queen
3. ???
4. Profit!

For a more serious answer though I too would like to promote the use of fire to solve all your problems.
ALL OF THEM!

Hmm... if plan fails, you get ant-bites on your wang. If plan succeeds, you get ant-bites on your wang forever! I'm not so sure about this one I like the profit though XD

Hmm, all my violent or non-personal problems anyway Voices in my head don't like being burnt.

All problems... PYROS: Problems Yearly Razed Over Super-incinerators. I think we should found it...

 

[Whateveralot]

Equal parts confectioners sugar and baking soda, put it in a plate near the hill they will find it. It works because ants have no means to pass gas, instead they pop. Worked for me had a problem with carpenter ants once.

Even though it sounds really strange, you say it like it's legitemate. Are you serious? :S

 

[aashell13]

Get a pesticide that's meant to kill ants in the yard. If they're fire ants then amdro and patience should do the trick. usually takes a few days to a week, depending on the size of the mound.

A liberal application of fireworks will be more entertaining, at a possible cost of effectiveness.

 

[mad825]

Boil the kettle or boil water in a sauce pan then pour to one's taste

 

[JochemDude]

Boiling water and poison combined, get a bucket fill it with water then throw a big dosis of poison in it and boil it. Then pour it in and your problems are gone.

 

[Jedoro]

Fire

Pour gasoline/kerosene/lighter fluid/napalm down the hole, then light it. Keep some water handy, in case it spreads too far, but it should get the job done AND be entertaining.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Have you tried convincing them to leave? All this violence gets nobody amywhere; open negotiations with the ants, and try to understand the issue from their point of view. Dressing up as an ant may help as well.

During the great war of my room with the Ants during 2009, I attempted such negotiations. I would tolerate their presence if the ants respected my computer desk a no-invasion zone. They affronted me on this, and I set about buying traps and glue, capturing prisoners under empty glasses until they starved and left the bodies there as warnings to the others.

Eventually I found their homebase, beteewn the towels under the sink in the master bedroom. Sprayed a can of raid on those fuckers.

Point of the story? Ants are imperialist pinko commie bastards and need to be eliminated.

OT: after trying all that, why not try fire for shits and giggles?

 

[Treaos Serrare]

gasoline and fire, soak the mound in gas then get away from it and chuck some burning old socks at it to catch fire fro ma safe distance, or alternatively make a gas "fuse" line a safe distance fro mthe mound then light it that way( its really fun but be like 10 feet away when you do it)

 

[Saippua]

Kill it with fire. Or dig it up. Then kill it with fire.