How to deal with ants in the garden

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

Everything changed when we matured and began to keep our dachas, personal plots, and vegetable gardens. No, of course, the ants have not ceased to be useful. But the damage they can inflict is immeasurably greater 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 consist in two variants: scaring and eradication. But these items already have many variations.

Even if your garden has a great many anthills, we recommend not to destroy them completely. Otherwise, then you will torture yourself to poison the chemistry of other harmful insects that have multiplied. Better try to drive them out of your territory first.

Scare

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

Forest ants

Find a large anthill in the forest. Then spade the bag with the insects in a bag. Quickly go home and feel free to pour the contents of the bag directly into the razvoroshennye anthills on the site.

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

Fight for territory
There are recommendations to move two anthills, standing far from each other. And swap shovels a little bit of land with insects. According to reviews, ants leave from such sites.

Scaring strong substances can be described infinitely. This is a treatise.We list the most common and effective methods.

Tomatoes
A decoction of green leaves and stems is very unpleasant to ants. Even just the smell of fresh tomato tops very well scares the ants.

Breaking off the stepsons, do not throw them away. Put in a bowl, pour cold water in any proportion. Then put on the fire and boil for about 35 minutes. Strain after cooling and boldly spray all visible paths of ants, trees, bushes. Pour more decoction into a loose anthill and the ground around.

Council Do not throw away the leaflet after decoction. Spread it into ant heaps and nooks.

Wormwood, tansy, yarrow
Picked grass in large quantities laid out in the habitat of ants in the garden. It will need a lot. Because you have to often change to fresh. Otherwise the smell will erode, and the ants will remain.

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

Garlic, onion
Spread on the paths cut teeth and onions. Ants will leave the garden. The method does not work on some colonies; they build their nests very well among the plantings of these vegetables.

Council You can use the garlic arrows. Finely crumble them and scatter them in places of the greatest accumulation of insects. It is not necessary to tidy up later, everything is rotting naturally.

Digging
Doubtful way. It consists in repeated digging of an anthill and the soil around. Often, after such treatment, the ants in a day rebuild the home again, or simply transfer it to the side a meter or two.

Council Do not tear your back, daily kolupaya shovel numerous mounds. Use less labor intensive methods.

Ammonia
He will need only 2 tbsp. l 10 liters of clean water. Carefully mixed and carefully sprayed ant paths, trunks and crowns of trees, shrubs, poured into the nest. It does not harm plants at all, on the contrary, it only brings benefits. But insects do not like this smell.

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

Ash, soda, coal
All these tools in the form of finely powdered powder are scattered along the paths or near the anthill. You can mix, you can separately. Insects do not like to move on such a "pavement" and leave the usual habitat.

Council After each watering or rain, update the dressing, otherwise it will lose its effectiveness.

Urine
The top layer of the nest is opened and the contents of the night pot are watered from the heart. It is said that the method works very well.

Council Fluid need a lot. From one sending of the natural needs of the body will not be good.

Sunflower oil
It is recommended to use only unrefined. The method is expensive, the effect is doubtful. They suggest oiling tree trunks, branches of bushes, pouring it into a splayed nest. Well, if you have your own production. And so, tortured to buy oil liters.

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

Council It is better to cram fresh sunflower oil cake into the anthill.Cheap, angry and quite a stink of oil.

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

Extermination

Just do not have now about humanity! Let's see how you sing when you find your garden in the hills of anthills in the spring, and in the fall you will be left without a crop from the invasion of aphids. Then you will have to keep from testing the hydrogen bomb at the site.

And here aphid? Hello, come. These are pets for the ants. They plant them, in the winter they hide from frost, dredge from one plant to another - they look for pasture more tasty. And then milked. Not like a cow, of course, but you get your little drop of honey.

Therefore, these insects are interrelated. 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 extreme case. We will need ...

Semolina, millet, cornmeal
Yes, yes, do not be surprised. Ants gladly haul all these ingredients into their homes, they eat them from the belly and feed their queen.Groats swell in their tum, after which the insects die. You will have to scatter a few packs to fill the whole anthill. Still, the number of insects is estimated in many millions within the habitat of one nest.

The same effect has a raw yeast, mixed with sugar. The insect is nourished, and the yeast is boiling. As a result, the belly does not withstand the pressure of the gas and bursts.

Council So that the scattered cereals do not eat the birds before the ants find them, cover the dressing with leaf litter, slate, and grass.

Sweet
Dry sugar is mixed with boric acid crystals and poured into an anthill. Insects are greedy for sweets, so they will bring poison into the nest. Feed all and die.

Liquid sweet bait is prepared differently. Water is poured into the jar, sugar is dissolved in it. In this case, the tank must always be glass and high. You need very little syrup, about a third of the can. It is instilled near the anthill so that the neck is flush with the soil or 1 cm higher. The food miners will go to the appealing scent of herds. Naturally, they will climb into the jar and sink there.They will not be able to get out, because ants cannot walk on glass.

You will only need to periodically replace the bait with a new one, throwing out the cold corpses.

Council Instead of sugar, you can take any jam.

Chopped meat
Mixed with boric acid. By the way, she is the main participant in almost every recipe for poisonous bait for bothering insects. Then they roll small balls from the mixture obtained and lay them out in the ants' habitats.

The effect is always the same: they themselves have perished, the uterus has been fed, everyone has died.

Council Be careful when using this method if you or your neighbors have pets. They also do not mind eating raw minced meat. The animal does not know that he is poisoned. Bury the balls in an anthill at a depth of at least 40 cm. If it is taller, then do not be surprised that your dog is digging a pit straight in the nest.

Yolk
Chicken egg is boiled for 4 hours. Cool, take out the yolk. It is added to 1 tsp. dry boric acid and powdered sugar. Thoroughly knead, sculpt the balls. Then they are thrown to the anthill or shoved directly into it.All insects eat poison, and even set aside.

Council For a good result, use yolks from at least 5 eggs. It is on a medium-sized anthill. Accordingly, the dose increases supplements.

Chemistry
Now the industry produces all kinds of toxic substances for ants. These are sprays, gels, plastic traps, drops for solution preparation. Use your entire arsenal to make the struggle with ants as successful as possible:

1. Scratched a mound, sprayed with a special spray. Closed with a thick film, came in three days. They leveled the remnants of former greatness. If necessary, repeated several times.
2. Smeared pieces of plastic gel, put near the place of residence of ants or directly on their paths. Periodically wash off sticking insects, put a new portion of the gel. If the gel is a poisoned bait, then simply replenish it regularly. Insects drag "yummy" to themselves and soon die.
3. Plastic traps are smeared with sticky glue that does not dry out in the open air. They are conveniently wound on the trunks of trees, laid out on visible paths.
4. Drops are dissolved in the required amount of water (the information is on the package, for each agent its own dosage). Then it is better to work together. One shovel raises the top of the anthill, the second pours the right amount of the mixture, the first quickly puts the soil back. After some time, the entire colony will die out safely.

By the way, tree trunks can be tightly wrapped with the cheapest flypaper tape. Only fix it more accurately, otherwise in the heat it can come off. After sticking ants on paper, it is burned, then wound a new one. The method of such mechanical cleaning is well proven.

Council Wind up traps in the trees with a width of 25 cm or more. Insects will quickly stick to a narrow strip of glue, while others will quietly pass over the barrier on their backs.

Boiling water

CouncilBe careful, do not burn yourself! All the water may not fit into the anthill and flow out.

Can't cope on your own? Tired of fighting? Call specialized companies. Fortunately, they are now divorced more than ants. Pay the money and let it be their headache, not yours. Just be sure to ask for a certificate of quality, permission to work with toxic substances and a detailed contract with a list of services. Who knows what?

How to deal with ants in the garden? As you can see, a great many 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 glances of neighbors. And leave the outrageous antics with a domestic anteater to fans of Dali's creativity.

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