Top 4 Best Pet Safe Killer For Fire Ants (2022 Review)

These are pre-filled ant bait stations that use Borax as the active ingredient to kill an entire ant colony of fire ants or any other ants in the area.

Open each clear plastic bait station with the twist-off end then place it where the ants have been coming in.

Worker ants will smell the attractant on the bait, eat it, and take it back to their colony. It is an effective and easy method controlling fire ants without endangering your pets, as long as you put the bait stations where your pets can’t reach them and play with them.

This fire ant bait can be used outside as long as it’s not exposed to direct sunlight which will dry it up or placed in a low area where rainwater might collect and dilute it.

Advion Fire Ant Bait from Syngenta uses Indoxacarb as the active ingredient, so it has very low toxicity. It’s an effective method of fire ant control and can be used against many other species of ants as well. Baiting with it will kill an entire ant colony in days.

Some customers have complained about the high price per pound but a single pound will cover an entire acre, so it’s worth it. Pets don’t appear to be interested in the granules so you can use it without endangering them.

Baiting is simple, just use a hand spreader on a low setting and you’ll start getting your ant problem under control. Don’t use it just before or after it rains.

This 5-pound bag of fire ant bait from Amdro uses Hydramethylnon 0.0360%, Methoprene 0.0172% as the active ingredients. These are the same active ingredients as our first pick but at much weaker concentrations.

Amdro says the bag will cover 10,000 square feet, a little less than a quarter of an acre. It kills fire ants but it will take time for them to build up a lethal dose. The flip side of the equation is that it is almost entirely harmless to pets because it’s so weak.

Like most granular ant baits, it doesn’t fair well in inclement weather. You’ll need a hand spreader to use it.

The active ingredient in this 10-pound bag of granules is Lambda-cyhalothrin 0.01%. The bag will cover about 5,000 square feet, about the size of an average yard, so this makes it well suited for most homeowners.

Since Lambda-cyhalothrin is a broad-spectrum insecticide, it’s not only a fire ant killer, it’s also effective against a wide range of other insects too. The product label mentions army worms, billbugs, chinch bugs, crickets, cutworms, earwigs, fleas, and many more.

As with all granules, it’s safe for your pets but doesn’t fare well in wet weather. Finally, it doesn’t last as long as the other fire ant killers on our list.