Order a free yard treatment kit

Registrations for kits have now closed, but you can register your interest for next year.

If you live in Ipswich, Logan, or selected Brisbane and Gold Coast suburbs, you're eligible for 2 free yard treatment kits each financial year.

Fire ants could be hidden underground or on a nearby property. Self-treating your yard helps to keep these pests from becoming a problem for you, your home or your community.

Register your interest

Who can get a free kit

Property owners and tenants in eligible suburbs of these 4 council areas:

  • Ipswich: all suburbs
  • Logan: all suburbs
  • Brisbane: all suburbs except those getting eradication treatment:
    • ­ Banks Creek
    • ­ England Creek
    • ­ Enoggera Reservoir
    • ­ Kholo
    • ­ Lake Manchester
    • ­ Upper Brookfield
  • Gold Coast: all suburbs except those getting eradication treatment:
    • ­ Advancetown
    • ­ Austinville
    • ­ Bilinga
    • ­ Bonogin
    • ­ Burleigh Heads and Burleigh Waters
    • ­ Coolangatta
    • ­ Currumbin, Currumbin Valley and Currumbin Waters
    • ­ Elanora
    • ­ Lower Beechmont
    • ­ Kirra
    • ­ Miami
    • ­ Mudgeeraba
    • ­ Neranwood
    • ­ Palm Beach
    • ­ Reedy Creek
    • ­ Robina
    • ­ Tallebudgera and Tallebudgera Valley
    • ­ Tugun
    • ­ Varsity Lakes

For apartments or units, check with your property manager before you place an order.

If you live outside these areas, register your interest to get a free kit when they are available in your area.

When you’ll get your kit

Fire ants are most active in the warmer months, so treatment kits will arrive in spring and summer each year.

If you've moved house, let us know:

If you no longer want to receive a yard treatment kit, you can opt out at any time.

Why you should order a kit

Fire ants can harm people, pets, livestock, and agriculture. They pose a severe threat to our health, environment, economy, and outdoor lifestyle.

Ordering your yard treatment kit is an easy way to protect your home from hidden fire ants and help eradicate fire ants from Australia by 2032.

Over 59,000 households are treating their yards for fire ants. The more property owners and tenants who use yard treatment kits, the less chance fire ants have to establish a foothold.

How and when to use the kit

Your yard treatment kit includes treatment products and clear instructions to help you protect your yard. The amount of product you'll get is based on the size of your property. Use the treatment as soon as possible for best results.

Be sure to follow the provided instructions, check the product label, and follow any restrictions relevant to your circumstances.

To apply the treatment:

  • Choose a day when it hasn’t rained for at least 48 hours, and no rain is forecast for the next 48 hours.
  • Avoid watering, mowing, or disturbing the treated area for 48 hours after application.

Learn how to apply the treatment effectively and protect your home from hidden fire ants.

Transcript

We see a nest of fire ants, and in front of them, the text: Treating fire ants on your property.

Then, a man takes a parcel out of his mailbox. A woman opens her parcel and pulls out a container of fire ant treatment, and a brochure.

Narrator: Once you receive your free fire and treatment kit, applying the product is easy.

The brochure is open on a table, showing instructions. The woman, wearing gloves, peels back the label on her treatment bottle.

Narrator: Before you start treating, make sure you read the “How to use your fire ant product” brochure and the label on the product bottle.

Now, we see an overhead view of a sunny, tree-lined suburban street. The woman checks the weather on her mobile phone. It shows fine conditions for the coming few days.

Narrator: Choose a clear day to apply your treatment where there's no rain expected and none forecast for the next two days.

Still wearing gloves, the woman peels back the protective film from her bottle.

Another man, wearing gloves, closed-toe shoes and long trousers, walks slowly through a garden. He is gently shaking a bottle of treatment. We then see the treatment granules falling into the grass.

Narrator: Remove the seal from your fire ant treatment product and shake a light sprinkle over the areas you are treating.

We see a close-up of vegetable seedlings in a garden bed. A woman walks along the edge of her garden, sprinkling the treatment.

Narrator: And if you're growing veggies, sprinkle the fire ant product between the rows or around the plants.

Two people are mowing and watering their garden, in a split-screen. Red crosses appear over each side of the screen.

Narrator:  Do not mow, water or disturb the treated area for 48 hours after treatment.

We see a close-up of several fire ants carrying treatment granules.

Narrator:  The product stops the queen from producing viable and reproductive offspring.

You should apply the product even if the fire ants aren't visible as they can be under the ground or on a nearby property.

The woman from the start of the video applies the treatment to the lawn outside her home.

We go back to the brochure and scan across the page. A QR code is visible.

Narrator:  And lastly, don't forget to record your treatment by scanning our QR code in the “How to use your fire ant product”  brochure.

The man from the beginning of the video is crouching down at the foot of a tree, taking a photo of a small pile of dirt. A girl and a dog are in the background, staying clear.

Narrator:  If you do find a fire ant nest, make sure you report it by calling us on 132 ANT or visit fireants.org.au.

A logo and text appears: National Fire Ant Eradication Program, fireants.org.au, 132 ANT (13 22 68).