How to deal with ants in the garden

From childhood we were taught in biology that it is impossible to destroy anthills. That the ants themselves are extremely beneficial insects. It happened that when they saw a peer picking a characteristic mound with a stick, they even beat him.

Everything changed when we grew up and began to keep our cottages, personal plots, vegetable gardens. No, of course, the ants have not ceased to be useful. But the harm they can do is disproportionately more than any good.

How to deal with ants in the garden? It all depends on what goal you want to achieve. All methods of struggle are in two versions: scare and eradication. But these items already have many of their variations.

Even if your garden has a great many anthills, we recommend that you do not completely exterminate them. Otherwise, then you are tormented by the chemistry of other proliferated harmful insects. Better try to expel them from your territory first.

Scare

All intimidating methods are divided into two options. This is the use of smelling substances and the use of natural opponents.

Forest ants

Find a large anthill in the forest. Then, with a shovel, pour ground directly into the bag with insects. Quickly return home and boldly pour the contents of the bag directly into the hyped anthills on the site.

The fight will last about 3 days. During this time, forest orderlies will evict garden. After the expulsion, large ants will come across in your garden for about a week. But they will soon go back to the forest. Your land is not to their liking.

Fight for territory
There are recommendations to breed two anthills that are far from each other. And swap places with a shovel for a little land with insects. According to reviews, ants leave such sites.

Frightening off smelling substances can be described endlessly. This is a whole treatise. We list the most common and effective methods.

Tomato Tops
A decoction of green leaves and stems is very unpleasant for ants. Even just the smell of fresh tomato tops repels ants very well.

When cutting off stepsons, do not throw them away. Fold in dishes, fill with cold water in any proportion. Then put on fire and boil for about 35 minutes. Filter after cooling and boldly spray all visible paths of ants, trees, bushes. Pour more broth into the scattered anthill and the ground around.

Tip. Do not discard the tops after the broth. Lay it out in ant heaps and nooks.

Wormwood, tansy, yarrow
Torn grass is laid out in large numbers in the habitats of ants in the garden. She will need a lot. Because you often have to change to fresh. Otherwise, the smell will disappear, and the ants will remain.

Tip. To get the greatest effect, it is better to insist these herbs in boiling water for a day. Then spray the mixture of insects with the resulting mixture. Pour the remains of slurry with stems into anthills.

Garlic, onion
Arrange on the paths cut teeth and bulbs. Ants will leave the garden. The method does not work for some colonies; they perfectly build their nests among plantings of these vegetables.

Tip. You can use garlic arrows. Finely crush them and scatter them in the places of the greatest concentration of insects. Then it’s not necessary to clean, everything will decay naturally.

Digging
Doubtful way. It consists in repeatedly digging an ant hill and the soil around.Often, after such treatment, goose bumps rebuild the dwelling for a day or simply transfer it to the side for a meter or two.

Tip. Do not tear your back by daily shoveling numerous mounds. Use less labor intensive methods.

Ammonia
It will need only 2 tbsp. l on 10 l of pure water. Ant paths, trunks and crowns of trees, bushes are thoroughly mixed and thoroughly sprayed, poured into the nest. This does not harm plants at all, on the contrary, it only benefits. But insects really do not like this smell.

Tip. Observe safety measures, use a gauze bandage or a respirator. Otherwise, you sniff yourself.

Ash, soda, coal
All these products in the form of finely ground powder are scattered along the paths or near the anthill. You can mix, you can individually. Insects really do not like to move around such a "road surface" and leave their usual habitat.

Tip. After each watering or rain, renew the sprinkling, otherwise it will lose its effectiveness.

Urine
They open up the top layer of the nest and water it from the heart with the contents of the night pot. They say that the method works very well.

Tip. Fluids need a lot. From one set of the body's natural needs, there will be no use.

Sunflower oil
Only unrefined is recommended. The method is costly, the effect is doubtful. They suggest oiling tree trunks, branches of bushes, pouring it into a rafted nest. It’s good if you have your own production. And so, you are tormented by buying oil in liters.

Instead of oil, kerosene is also recommended. That's just where to get it in such quantities, advisers do not indicate. And they don’t tell you how not to die yourself, watering and greasing the whole garden with kerosene.

Tip. Better cram a fresh sunflower meal into the anthill. Cheap, angry and completely stinks of oil.

All of the above methods are suitable when you are annoyed by three heaps in the garden. If the scale of the invasion of ants is threatening, extreme measures will have to be taken.

Extermination

Just do not right now about humanity! Let’s see how you will sing when you find your garden in the hillocks of anthills in the spring, and in the fall you will be left without a crop from the aphid invasion. Then you will have to restrain from testing the hydrogen bomb on the site.

And here is the aphid? Hello, come. These are pets for goosebumps. They breed them, hide them in the winter from frost, drag from one plant to another - they look for tasty pasture. And then they milk it. Not like a cow, of course, but they get their own drop of bear pad.

Therefore, these insects are interconnected. Destroy one - the other lives tight. Well, let's not talk about the natural balance, let's deal with the bloodthirsty. No, burn with napalm - this is an emergency. We will need ...

Semolina, millet, cornmeal
Yes, don’t be surprised. Ants with pleasure drag all these ingredients to their home, there they eat them from the belly and feed their queen. The cereals swell in their belly, after which the insects die. You will have to scatter several packs so that the entire anthill is saturated. Still, the number of insects is estimated at many millions within the habitat of one nest.

Raw yeast mixed with sugar has the same effect. The insect bites, and the yeast boils. As a result, the abdomen does not withstand gas pressure and bursts.

Tip. So that the scattered grains do not eat the birds before the goosebumps find them, cover top dressing with leaf litter, slate, grass.

Sweet
Dry sugar is mixed with boric acid crystals and poured into an anthill. Insects are sweet, so they drag poison into the nest. They will feed everyone and die.

Liquid sweet bait is prepared differently. Water is poured into the jar, sugar is dissolved in it. At the same time, the container must be glass and high. Syrup is needed quite a bit, about a third of the can.It is dug up not far from the anthill so that the neck is flush with the soil or 1 cm higher. Food providers will go to the alluring aroma of herds. Naturally, they will climb into the bank and drown there. They will not be able to get out, because ants cannot walk on glass.

You just have to periodically replace the bait with a new one, throwing out the cold corpses.

Tip. Instead of sugar, you can take any jam.

Chopped meat
Mix with boric acid. By the way, she is the main participant in almost every recipe for poisonous bait for annoying insects. Then they roll small balls from the resulting mixture and lay them out in the habitats of goosebumps.

The effect is always the same: they themselves naluponyutsya, fed the uterus, all died.

Tip. Use caution when using this method if you or your pets have pets. They also do not mind eating raw minced meat. The animal is not aware that he is poisoned. Bury the balls in the anthill to a depth of at least 40 cm. If higher, do not be surprised that your dog is diligently digging a foundation pit right in the nest.

Yolk
Chicken egg is boiled for 4 hours. Cool, take out the yolk. To it add 1 tsp. dry boric acid and powdered sugar. Thoroughly knead, sculpt the balls. Then they are thrown to the anthill or crammed directly into it. All insects eat poison, and even put it off in reserve.

Tip. For good results, use yolks from at least 5 eggs. This is a medium sized anthill. Accordingly, the dose of additives increases.

Chemistry
Now industry produces all kinds of poisonous substances for ants. These are sprays, gels, plastic traps, drops for the preparation of a solution. Use the entire arsenal so that the fight against ants is as successful as possible:

1. They opened a mound, filled it with a special spray. They closed it with a thick film, they came in three days. The remains of former greatness were leveled. If necessary, repeated several times.
2. They smeared pieces of plastic with gel, put them near the place of residence of ants or directly on their paths. Periodically wash off the adhering insects, apply a new portion of the gel. If the gel is a poisoned bait, then we simply replenish it regularly. Insects drag the "yummy" to themselves and soon die.
3. Plastic traps are smeared with sticky glue that does not dry out in the open. They are conveniently wound on tree trunks, laid out on visible paths.
4. Drops are dissolved in the required amount of water (information is on the package, each dosage has its own dosage). Then it’s better to work together. One shovel lifts the top of the anthill, the second pours the right amount of mixture, the first quickly puts the soil back. After a while, the entire colony will die out safely.

By the way, tree trunks can be tightly wrapped with the cheapest adhesive tape from flies. They only fix it stronger, otherwise in the heat it may come off. After sticking goosebumps on paper, it is burned, then a new one is wound. The method of such mechanical cleaning has proven itself perfectly.

Tip. On trees, wrap traps with a width of 25 cm or more. Insects quickly stick to the narrow glue strip, while others calmly cross the barrier on their backs.

Boiling water

Tip. Be careful not to burn yourself! All water may not fit in the anthill and will flow out.

Can't cope on your own? Tired of fighting? Call specialized firms. Fortunately, there are now more of them divorced than ants. Pay money and let it become their headache, not yours.Just be sure to ask for a quality certificate, permission to work with toxic substances and a detailed contract with a list of services. You never know what.

How to deal with ants in the garden? As you can see, there are a lot of ways. Use any suitable for you at will and means. After all, you can get rid of these insects quickly, cheaply and without the slanting eyes of your neighbors. And shocking tricks with a home anteater leave to fans of Dali's creativity.

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