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So uh… I hinted at this yesterday, but I deployed fine powdered Acephate right against my house, right where the ants were entering. A monumentally stupid decision which I won’t try to justify (I had reasons but they were dumb). After doing this, I double checked my risk-analysis of Acephate and realized it was a significantly bigger deal than I originally thought.

So I am wondering what I can do to break it down, to prevent it from blowing around and coating everything in a fine layer of neurotoxin around my baby girl’s house…

I never took organic chemistry coursework but “throw ammonia at it” seems like a decent bet? One of the resources I looked at said that hydrolysis occurred faster at higher ph, so does that suggest anything?

This suggests I could hit it with hydrides and create phosphine gas, which tbh sounds worse, but maybe it could dissipate more readily?

The half life of Acephate is supposedly only 3 days in soil, the problem being a significant portion is on my concrete patio… Made worse by being partially sheltered from wind.