Ammonia from ants

Ants, or formicitides, and aphids are an invariable harmful union that can be found not only in the garden, but also at home. The first participant in the symbiosis is a carrier of diseases and microbes, and the second eats green plants, such neighbors are undesirable in apartments and residential buildings, as they like to be in places where food is stored.

How to get rid of ants using ammonia and how to prevent their appearance in a house or apartment will be discussed later in the text.

Reasons for the appearance of ants at home

Among the options for settling insects, it is worth noting:

• accidental falling into things during transportation;
• moving from neighboring apartments or from the street;
• the presence of dirt in the house in the form of garbage, uncleaned food or its remains.

The action of ammonia on furmicitides

In the process of fighting ants, ammonia is often used, as it has a deadly effect on them. On collision with ammonia, insects receive:

• fright - ammonia vapors scare away insects, despite the fact that the drug evaporates quickly, insects feel it for a long period of time;
• swelling and paralysis of the digestive tract;
• severe burns;
• severe paralysis of the whole body.

Ammonia from ants

Instructions for the use of ammonia

In the case of using alcohol against aphids or ants, the following steps should be taken:

• examine the bushes and cut off diseased leaves and shoots, burning them later;
• prepare a solution: dissolve 1 laundry soap and 100 ml of ammonia per 10 liters of water; it is necessary to get a homogeneous mass;
• spray each bush with a mixture;
• repeat the procedure once a month;
• exclude watering of treated plants for several days.

Ammonia recipes

To show how to use ammonia from ants, here are some recipes.

Death from ammonia fumes

To eliminate the anthill from the site you need:

• wet the fabric with pharmacy alcohol;
• put the flap on the anthill and cover with a bag on top;
• wait a few days until the complete disappearance of ammonia from the airspace.

Death by sugar

To understand how to get rid of ants with ammonia, you should get acquainted with the following recipe:

• take 10 liters of warmed, but not hot water;
• dissolve a spoonful of ammonia and sugar in a liquid in a ratio of 3 to 5;
• irrigate all infected bushes.

Death by ash

Wood ash

To prepare the mixture you need:

• in 10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of wood ash should be diluted;
• leave for a day for infusion;
• add a spoonful of soap and 2 - ammonia to the resulting solution;
• Stir the mixture thoroughly and water well the beds where aphids live.

Water death

To prepare the mixture you need:

• dilute 50 ml of alcohol into 4 liters of water;
• add shabby baby soap to the solution;
• pour the mixture over flowers and flowering plants.

Water and ammonia

Application in the garden

In addition to the fact that ammonia or ammonia is useful for plants when the dosage is observed, it is quite popular in the fight against insects.

In order to use ammonia from ants, you must:

• take a gauze bandage to protect the respiratory tract from the mixture, since ammonia vapors not only have an unpleasant odor, but are also harmful to humans;
• wear gloves to protect your hands;
• prepare a solution by mixing ammonia and tar soap, dissolving the mixture in water in a 1: 1: 1 ratio; the proposed mixture will be sticky and will increase the chances in the fight against the "six-legged" neighbors;
• spray the mixture onto the trunk of tall (for example, viburnum tree) and medium-sized plants;
• watering the beds in the open air and in the greenhouse - the mixture will be useful for the plants, but will cause ants and aphids to leave or die on the spot if drops of the drug fall on their bodies.

With the above solution, you can fight not only single individuals, but also the anthill. To do this, just dig out the anthill and pour the mixture inside. Since ammonia has a deadly effect on ants, the garden will soon be cleared of this pest.

In order to destroy the anthill with a high probability, it is necessary to pour the solution using a hose into a hole 1 meter deep for 30 minutes.

If there is a desire to simply eliminate the anthill without killing the inhabitants, it is enough to do the following steps:

• sprinkle it with millet groats and leave it in direct sunlight so that the "hard workers" take the groats to their home;
• after the house of ants, close from the sun and wait for several days;
• after the expiration of time, water the anthill, giving the opportunity to appear on the croup of a fungus that insects do not like.

Home Application

To use ammonia against aphids and ants, you should follow the specified algorithm:

• dissolve 1 tablespoon of ammonia in 8 liters of boiled water;
• leave the solution to infuse for half an hour;
• pour into a spray bottle and spray on infected houseplants.

It is also worth wiping all surfaces with the resulting mixture and waiting about half an hour for the ants to leave.

Insect prevention

In order not to use ammonia from ants and reduce the risk of them getting into the house, it is advisable:

• good packaging and storing food;
• keep the house clean;
• store sweets in sealed containers, such as sugar, sweets;
• close the trash can or take out food leftovers from the house in a timely manner.

To reduce the risk of ants appearing in the garden, it is advisable to spray the plants once a week with a mixture of ammonia and water, where there are 15 ml of alcohol per 10 liters of liquid.

Summing up, it is worth noting that not only the reasons for the appearance of ants at home and in the garden were considered, but also recipes where ammonia from ants and aphids is used, which adversely affect the favorable living conditions of any dacha and apartment.