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You don't have to use much Amdro (or Spectricide's equivalent) to kill the mound. I take a stick and simply (and quickly) disturb the mound. When the ant guards show up, I sprinkle about a teaspoon of the granules among the scurrying little biters. That's all you need to do. They feed the queen and the job is done.

In San Antonio, I leased a house on the west side. I counted 31 active mounds and "new" mounds in the yard. The neighbors had a bunch as well. Three days later, I had 22. Three days after that, the count was down to 16. Then 11, 7, 4, and none in roughly three day intervals. The smart thing I did was to get permission to treat some of my neighbor's yards (the ones that bordered me). For about a buck's worth of granules, I moved the ant colonies back another 50 feet or so. Once my yard was clear, I treated the whole yard every now and then with a hand full thrown out thinly. I did this to prevent a colony that a neighbor had "run off" from setting up in my space.