Top Choice Fire Ant Control

Fire ants are active most of the year in areas where they are a pest.  During cooler seasons these pests are more active and are more likely to respond to your pest management operations.  Top Choice can be applied at any time of year but for best results, apply the granules in Spring of the year of Autumn.  Spring time is the best for optimal control.  As with any long-term ant control product, your best results will be seen by applying the product just prior to the ants most active period or at first sign of infestation.  During hot summer months fire ants are visible and are indeed active.

Fipronil, the active ingredient in TopChoice granules, is a slow-acting insecticide.  This means that you will not usually see immediate results after application.  This slow action is an advantage when getting rid of ants and fire ants.  The social life of an ant colony is an important to remember when controlling the pests.  Ants do indeed "socialize" in their daily routines, constantly touching each other.  This constant and repetitive contact will rapidly spread the insecticide throughout the colony of ants.  Once an ant has contaminated itself by foraging through areas treated with Fipronil or has fed on objects in the treated area, the ant will spread Fipronil to each ant it comes into contact with and these ants will spread to insecticide to other ants.  If the insecticide were to work too fast, far fewer ants would be affected, lessening the effect of the product.  Slow acting Fipronil will give you a more thorough kill of the fire ant colony.  With Fipronil, slower is better; slower is more effective.
Apply the granules evenly, at the proper time and be patient!