• Introduction
• Management Options
• Organizing a Community-Wide Suppression Program
• Treatment Methods

• Natural and Biological Control
• Physical and Mechanical Methods
• Control Devices
• Home Remedies
• Organic Insecticides
• Chemical Control

• Baits
• Contact Insecticides for Individual Mounds
• Mound Drenches
• Granular Products
• Dusts
• Injectable Products
• Surface Applications

• Biology and Identification
• Medical Problems
• History of Control Efforts
• Fire Ant Insecticides
• Policy Statement
• Acknowledgments
• Print this Lesson

Products containing pyrethrins, resmethrin or tetramethrin are manufactured in special aerosol containers to which an injection rod is attached. The rod is inserted into the mound in a number of places, according to instructions on the product label, and the pesticide is injected for a specified time into each mound. Devices used to inject or “rod” insecticides into mounds are also sold as application equipment and are often used by commercial applicators.