FireAntz

02/12/2025

For all my old Mozzie/ Midge customers. You’ve probably worked out I’m no longer doing that business anymore, however the two competitors who I have no affiliation with re probably your best bet. If you Google either of these two, you might find the treatments you are chasing.

1. Green Frog Misting
2. No Mosquitoes

Just tell them what you paid and the areas I covered, and possibly they can help you out.

Just because it didn’t work for me, doesn’t mean I can’t promote those still trying.

Merry Christmas

12/10/2025

This is a steam injection attachment I designed and got made by an engineering business. It works very similar to the smaller VOH head that Weedtechnics provide. However there’s a on/off valve (the yellow valve at top). Below that is a solid piece of steel bored out with a straight tunnel down, with 6 internal 40 degree angle tunnels that have drilled out grub screws that work as the shower. The straight tunnel at the end of the solid piece has been bored as a screw in for different length spears that can be screwed in. The square shaped cone turns the 40 degree angle points into a shower, while also preventing loss of heat from each injection.

10/10/2025

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09/10/2025

So I was thinking about this. There’s nothing stopping anyone from purchasing a hot water petrol powered gurnsey like the below? You’d certainly have to ensure safe use and parts, and getting the correct attachments for use on fire ant nests. But it gives you also the ability to turn the pressure up high or down lower as well as setting the temperature gauge to over 100 or under 100 degrees Celsius. Just the expense is the issue.

The SW15-200SDE delivers 200 Bar pressure and 15 LPM flow, providing instant hot water for transport fleets and mining cleaning tasks.

25/09/2025

Is the term Graveyard the best description for this?

You’ll know if you’re doing a good job if the day after your steam/ hot water inject that there will be signs of these kind of “graveyards of fire ants” which seem to be made by the workers that were outside of the initial treatment area and then come back home to their nest and probably think “WTF” (that’s what I think may run through their heads) and start moving the dead. If the treatment was truly successful, the nest should become unviable and those workers will eventually die and disappear as they have no purpose any longer. Native small black ants will be invading the treated nest (probably for a free feed).

25/09/2025

Safety first 👍 If you do try these things, ensure you are protected as it’s literally boiling water. A burns kit is a must, welding gloves incase the hose breaks off at the point of attachment of the gun (or some other malfunction), a face shield for the spitting mud from the injection site, a leather apron for spitting mud or attachment failure and obviously long pants, long sleeve shirt, leather boots and a good hat.

25/09/2025

The Sumo trailer would be what I’d look at if I were on a farm, this is one of many designs as well as custom trailers or perhaps setups for an ATV? I have no affiliation with Weedtechnics, but they’re now the key player in this Fire Ant steam/ hot water apparatus since QuikCorp stopped their own Steam w**d control systems. This for me is to encourage others who want to have “a crack” and maybe be a leader in the future of a new type of method readily available for everyone to buy straight off the shelf for their own purposes and trials. The sumo for me offers capacity without the need or worry to fill the tank back up with water, as each nest will take 20-30 litres (medium sized - anything ranging from 20-40cm in height).

https://www.w**dtechnics.com/trailers-and-skids/

25/09/2025

Though the idea of hot water/ steam injection for fire ant nests is a good one. It’s certainly a longer process to kill off one nest than with traditional granules and the go to Fipronal. Typically each nest can take 15 minutes to completely destroy (one initially and then another in 7 days again - total around 30minutes for a medium sized nest).

However in a lot of cases when injecting into hard ground (not cultivated farm land), the main nest will have very small interconnecting satellite hubs coming off them, it really then is a cross you fingers and hope there were no alates in those little hubs. If you do a good job, and the one nest was it, you will find worker ants gathering their dead.. and then just wander aimlessly while native ants start invading their unviable nests.

The hot water/ steam is a very niche piece of equipment (dont get me wrong, it’s very effective) for use in environmentally sensitive areas, parks and sports fields.

For farmers though, it might not be the go to until the technology catches up. Look at it this way, farm land that have serious infestations of 50 nests an acre will potentially have up to 12.5hrs in just treating labour time (this does not include moving and refilling tanks). If a farm has multiple acres, and have to reinspect and retreat 7 days later, this in my opinion becomes “the farmers new job” as it will take some time to cover over 20 acre farm scenarios, especially when the farm next door has the same problem and is doing nothing about it.

It’s a rock and a hard place for it being a viable piece of equipment for farming.

24/09/2025

This Weedtechnics VOH Open head with spear was one of my favourite for smaller nests. Great at low or high pressure hot water/ steam. The spear though after prolonged use becomes weakened at the point of screw in the VOH head. I had it tigged welded and eventually made my own design at 5 times the size for larger nests. These spears from Weedtechnics can be found here - https://www.w**dtechnics.com/applicator-heads-and-accessories-2/

24/09/2025

These spears work ok. Great idea for harder ground, but requires small side exit holes about an inch above the main point. At low pressure you can try 2mm hole, no more than three, and at high pressure a 1mm hole (four).

This can be purchased at Austates.

https://austates.com.au/product-category/pumps-pump-parts/termite-treatment-equipment/

But after getting that, Hydraulink is the place I use to get my connections (I used quick release hydraulic female and male parts) to make it fit to my spray gun. Further I added a turn valve to stop the flow if required.

22/09/2025

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22/09/2025

Over the next few weeks I’m going to share information from all the tests and trials I completed getting science sites from the National Fire Ant EradicationProgram. Part of this will include information like where you can get the equipment and what worked and what didn’t.

I figure I’m not replacing my boiler as Quikcorp cannot provide a replacement and it subsequently got decommissioned, as no one was interested in this being a thing where they contributed to the cost of replacing it.

But it’s literally something anyone can do if you’ve got the disposable income, patience and no fear to bubbling mud mixed with fire ants (dead mostly). See below for a past story of the Weedtechnics system as a reference point to begin your journey.