Extinguish Plus Fire Ant Bait is made so that is highly attractive to imported and native fire ants and other ants.
How Extinquish Plus Fire Ant Bait Works
Ants are social insects and have colonies with workers and queens.The Queen sends out worker ants (foraging ants ) to carry the bait into the mound as food for the colony. The ants will then begin feeding the bait to the rest of the colony. They eat it and feed it to the queen.
Extinguish works by stopping the queen's ability to reproduce. It won't work as quick as some other baits but in the long run it will eliminate them.
Product Information
Extinguish Plus Fire Ant Bait is made so that is alluring and tempting to imported and native fire ants and other ants. If you use Extinguish Plus while fire ant are foraging (seeking food) they readily take this ant bait.
How Extinquish Plus Fire Ant Bait Works
Ants are social insects and have colonies with workers and queens.The Queen sends out worker ants (foraging ants ) to carry the bait into the mound as food for the colony. The ants will then begin feeding the bait to the rest of the colony. They eat it and feed it to the queen.
Extinquish Plus Fire Ant Bait is a unique product containing a slow acting insecticide(hydramethylnon) and an Insect Growth Regulator (IGR-Methoprene).
This dual mode of action ensures complete control of the fire ant colony. The IGR prevents rebirth of a new generation in the colony, while the insecticide kills the foraging workers.
Extinquish Plus Fire Ant Bait will start to kill ants after they feed on the bait. The colony will begin to decline in about a week, after the bait has been brought back to the mound. The mound is destroyed when the queen dies.
Baiting Tips
Baiting in the spring or fall is best, however you can bait whenever the ants are foraging. Fire ants like to search for food in the early mornings or late afternoons.
Inspection is important when baiting for fire ants, look for activity. Placing some pet food or a potatoe chip around mound will indicate that they are actively foraging at that moment.
When baiting, think in terms or "picnic weather". Soil temperature needs to be greater than 60° F. Sunny and dry weather is best. Do not place bait on moist ground.
Apply when dry , and rain not expected for six hours.
Individual Mounds: Imported and native fire ants Harvester ants Big-headed ants Argentine ants
2 to 5 level tablespoons
Distribute bait uniformly around the mound. Do not disturb the mound. Do not apply more than 2 lb/acre. Do not contaminate kitchen utensils by use or storage.
Broadcast Treatment: Imported & native fire ants Harvester ants
1.5 lb/acre
(3 oz/5,000 sq ft)
Broadcast bait uniformly with ground (granular spreaders) or aerial equipment Set the spreader at the lowest setting, treating the outer perimeter first. Then apply in a strip pattern within that area.
Broadcast Treatment: Big-headed ants Argentine ants
1-2 lb /acre (2-4 oz/5,000 sq ft)
Broadcast bait uniformly with ground (granular spreaders) or aerial equipment
Residential and Commercial Property, Container, or Nursery Stock, SOD, Farms, Commercial Turf, Pasture and Rangeland.
Approved for indoor and outdoor use
Extinquish Plus is for use on lawns, landscaped areas, golf courses, and other non-cropland areas such as airports, roadsides, cemeteries, commercial grounds, parks, kennels, school grounds, picnic grounds, athletic fields, campgrounds, and other recreational areas, as well as on grounds surrounding poultry houses (excluding runs and ranges), or corrals and other animal holding areas.
Avoid direct exposure of animals to Extinquish Plus.
Do not graze or feed treated lawn or sod clippings to livestock.
Yield
4.5 lbs treats up to 3 acres
Mixture|Application
Broadcast or mound treatments
Application
Outdoor Use
Broadcast application: 1.5-2 lbs. per acre
Individual mounds: 2-5 tablespoons
Ants must be foraging for food in order to pick up the bait
Indoor Use
Apply bait ONLY into crack and crevices. Apply 2 teaspoons - 1 tablespoon per crack, crevice or other in accessible areas where ants are entering the structure or where ants are nesting.