Ants, although they are considered orderlies of the forest, they harm the garden. In addition, these insects can appear in an apartment or house. These ants are called garden ants.
To save their land ownership in the country, gardeners use all possible ways to eliminate this pest. In the forest, ants destroy harmful insects and carry seeds of trees and plants, facilitating their reproduction. But in the garden, although they eat aphids and worms, they still harm. Anthills with many underground passages and tunnels damage the ridges and roots of crops.
Effective ant control agents
Garden ants live in families and build large and long tunnels, damaging the root system of plants. When these pests appear, you need to immediately act and destroy them.
In order to remove them from the garden, it is not enough to dig up anthills or pour boiling water over them. It is necessary to use other variants of struggle.
Elimination of ants
To extract the ants, you can make baits to which they will react.
Insect baits:
- Honey. A dishwashing sponge is spread with honey and placed on the ant trekking trail. As soon as the insects have adhered to the sweet bait, it is taken up and dipped in boiling water. The more sponges on the trail, the greater the effect;
- Add honey and sugar to a half-liter jar of water or other container to make a sticky syrup. Place it not far from the anthill or on the path of the ants. Insects will climb in there and stick;
- Leave a few bones with remnants of raw meat or other meat products in place of insect activity. As soon as a large number of ants have crawled, remove and throw into hot water.
But such baits do not guarantee complete removal of insects, but only partial. Most of the pests will remain in the depths of the anthill and in underground passages, protecting the uterus.
Containers with vinegar or ammonia placed around the perimeter around the ant's nest will force harmful insects to leave their home.
Containers with ammonia will make harmful insects leave their home
In addition to baits, you can dig up anthills and fill them with garlic water, boiling water or warm bitumen, water with yeast or special purchased poisonous solutions. Boric acid is one such solution against ants.
Boric acid from ants
This product does not pose a danger to humans, and will only be harmful to insects. The acid has an enteric effect on insects, in particular on ants. You can use the tool, both in the garden and in the apartment. A solution or dry powder is added to meat products, such as minced meat, or to sweet syrups and placed on the anthill or in the place where insects are most common.
Boric acid added to egg yolks is a very good remedy. It is necessary to dilute half a teaspoon of acid and two yolks in a container. The resulting mass is rolled into balls and placed under the ants.
Boric bait is also made using glycerin (2 teaspoons), acid (one third of a teaspoon), a pinch of sugar and salt. From the resulting mixture, balls are rolled and placed in the abode of insects.
Boric acid balls
You can simply pour a teaspoon of the product into the minced meat and, after rolling the meat balls, place them on the path or ridge where these pests crawl.
In the case when it is not known where the anthill is, goose bumps can be fought with the help of sweet syrups made of honey and sugar, to which a boric agent is added. The resulting poison is poured into containers and placed on damaged ridges in order to lure goosebumps and get rid of at least those individuals that are walking along the surface nearby.
The biggest concern for gardeners is whether boric acid is safe? We can safely say that her presence in a garden plot or in a residential building will not be dangerous, since it does not evaporate any harmful substances into the air. The main thing is that the agent does not get into the human digestive system, as it can cause poisoning.
This product is also used in dry form. Dry boron powder mixed with powdered sugar is scattered along the ant path or near the entrance to the anthill. You can put it in a saucer and leave it near an area often visited by insects.
According to numerous reviews, it can be noted that this tool gives a good effect after several periodic applications. Complete destruction can be achieved only if the boric acid solution was poured deep into the anthill. A liquid product gives a better finish than a dry product.
Boric acid powder can also be used dry
Folk recipes for ants
In addition to boron, gardeners also use other means and methods to poison goose bumps.
The area with the ants is dug up, ash and ammonia are added to it. This mixture gives off a strong smell and burns the goose bumps, and they leave this place.
To protect tree trunks in the garden from these pests, they need to be wrapped with tomato tops and parsley. Interestingly, there are not many of these pests in greenhouses, because tomato greens give a smell that they do not like.
A solution of ammonia is highly praised among the people. Diluted in 10 liters of water, 1.5 tablespoons of ammonia are poured under the plants. Ants from the smell will leave this area, and for the culture it will be like fertilizer. The main thing is not to pour it under all plants.
Strong saline solution must be poured into ant underground passages
According to folk stories, goose bumps do not like strong saline solution poured into ant underground passages, and they also do not tolerate the smell of vinegar.
Another popular recipe is infused wormwood or garlic in water. The infusion is heated and poured into burrows or placed in open containers on the way closer to the anthill, and the insects leave their home.
You can hang or stick in the ground near the ant's house dried and collected in bouquets of parsley, garlic arrows, wormwood. Then the insects will leave this place.
Prevention of ants
To prevent the appearance of ant colonies in the garden or in a living room, you need:
- Observe order on the floor and tables in the living area. Because in housing, where crumbs and food debris are everywhere, ants will appear 100 percent;
- Treat the land with wood ash;
- Plant strong-smelling crops (garlic, parsley) on the site;
- Dig up the area periodically to attract birds that will destroy ant eggs;
- Timely remove compost and fallen leaves, remnants of crops and rhizomes from the site;
- Plant mint, calendula, which do not like goose bumps, over the area.
Observance of order, no matter whether it is an apartment or a plot of land, is the main preventive action against the appearance of ants.
