Fire Ant Shield Yard Protection Granules kills fire ant mounds and prevents new mound formation. Use outdoors on lawns and as a band treatment around your house foundation. This formula starts to kill in minutes and provides season-long control (up to 3 months) against red imported fire ants. It kills the queen and colony fast and also helps protect your home from invading ants (except carpenter and pharaoh), crickets, chinch bugs, billbugs, fleas, roaches, ticks (German and American), and other listed insects. Covers up to 5000 square feet of lawn.