Do you have ants in a garden or a greenhouse? Let's talk about how to get rid of red and black garden ants in the suburban area with industrial and folk remedies at home
Ants are hardworking - this is worthy of respect! It prevents them from quietly multiplying and living. An adult working ants to feed their relatives, you need to look for food in the daytime and at night. On this simple feature, the most insidious and effective model for the destruction of anthills is built.
Work on the destruction of ants is carried out in the complex from early spring to the first frosts, sometimes occupying the dark time of the day. The most common ways how to get rid of ants:
- agrotechnical measures,
- destruction using chemical insecticides,
- folk ways.
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Getting rid of ants: the agrotechnical methods of destroying anthills
Let this sounds a bit strange, butthe number of colonies of ants can be significantly reduced if you destroy the aphids parasitizing trees and shrubs. Completely get rid of the ants is not necessary. After all, in their place will come new garden pests. But the aphids - the main "herd", this "sweet milk" for gluttonous ant larvae.
The duration of ripening of a formic egg lasts 35 days, larvae - 7 days and pupae - 23 days. Life expectancy of larvae is 7 days, further - they pass to the stage of the pupa, which ceases to consume food. These seven days are the weak link of the colony of ants. They are intensively supplying food to the larvae, and if during this period to feed the larvae with poisoned food, the colony will not be reborn any more.
To successfully remove ants from a garden garden plot, perform the following procedures with large colonies:
- In late autumn and early spring, it is necessary to spruce stumps and skeletal branches of garden crops with a thick solution of freshly lime with the addition of any poison. With this technique you will destroy the ants, dragging their precious cargo from trees into the anthill to the winter.
- Around the shrubs, having departed from the base, with a ring densely to scatter ash, it is possible to mix with lime. Lime for ants is poisonous.
- Approximately in the middle of the stem( 40-80 cm) fasten the fishing belts, treating them with insecticides. To prevent the ants from crawling through the barrier, grease the stem around the perimeter with a special slowly drying glue( buy in the store).They can not overcome the adhesive barrier and will perish along with the road burden. Caging belts can be used in the spring-summer period( October and March), periodically replacing them with fresh ones.
- Simultaneously with the hunting belts for 8 days in a row, digging an ants colony to a depth of 3-8 cm, etching them in the evening( when the ants return home), pouring the razed anthills with hot boiling water, preferably with a hot decoction of tomato tops( literally boiling).
- Can be dug and filled with a mixture of ash and lime or ash and salt or treated with a mixture of ash and soda.
- A good result is obtained if you pour an anthill with a mixture of water and kerosene( 100-200 ml per 10 liters of water), digging it deeper.
Daily processing for 8 days will allow to destroy the larvae, a part of adult ants, possibly a "queen", eggs, pupae. Such treatment should be done systematically throughout the year, and the ants will leave the inhospitable dacha.
Ants love peace and settle in places where the soil is not subjected to frequent tumbling, that is not digging, stones and weeds are not being removed. If you run a farm without applying a digging, then surface treatment of the upper 10 cm of soil is mandatory. Look under a long laying stone or a cardboard, a board and you directly on the surface of the earth will see a bunch of ant eggs with nannies.
Preventive preventive measures against settling ants can be planted along the perimeter of the cottages, individual beds, under the crown of trees and, in particular, between berry bushes of tansy, parsley, mint, valerian, wormwood, lavender, garlic.
From personal experience: garlic in the rows of strawberries / strawberries and between berry bushes has saved berry land from ants and at the same time from some fungal diseases.
Ants in the garden, vegetable garden, greenhouse: chemical methods of struggle and disposal
Every owner of a private farmstead tries to get environmentally friendly products. Therefore, the use of chemicals in the country is undesirable. But in case of application, it is necessary to fulfill the recommendations on plant processing and waiting times, during which the preparation detoxifies and does not accumulate in the crop.
Of chemicals, the diazinon is highly effective. Systemic insecticide from the group of organophosphorus. It comes through roots and leaves along with nutrients to the plant for a certain period( at least 30 days) becomes poisonous to insects and humans. Bringing poisonous food, caring ants will independently eradicate not only gluttonous larvae, but also other groups of ants( soldiers, watchmen, nannies).
Chemists for households based on diazinon developed the preparations " Murder " and " Muratsid ", and a number of other preparations. They are available in the form of a solution and granules, and Muratsid together with food bait. These are poisons of a neuro-paralytic action.
Preparations treat the soil during seeding or transplanting. During the warm season, remove the top layer of the anthill and process aggregations of ant colonies. Preparations are very simple to use, do not accumulate in the form of toxic residues in the soil and do not circulate in the environment. Since the preparations are poisonous the processing of the garden and vegetable garden is carried out in protective clothing, observing all measures to preserve health and not allowing animals and birds to be treated. Work with pesticides necessarily strictly according to the recommendations.
Ants: disposing of folk remedies
Ants have two drawbacks:
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- can not overcome water obstacles,
- escapes from objects with sharp edges.
Consider how you can get rid of ants folk remedies in the home garden conditions in the suburban area.
Experienced gardeners around the tree trunks arrange the water barrier of the from the halves of the tires. Cut them into two halves along and in one place across. Prikapyvayut, leaving over the ground 3-5 cm tires. Seal a cross-section and pour water, you can with kerosene, with decoction of the leaves and other ingredients. Ants do not fall on a tree, which means they will lose their food and leave.
Around the tree bark at a height of 30-40 cm from the foil, make a skirt with protruding sharp edges of the .Ants are afraid of sharp objects. They crawl down to the sharp edge, and they do not fall to the colonies of aphids in garden crops. Of course, these methods are not a panacea, but to reduce the number of anthills in the garden will help. Simultaneously, they are fighting aphids( necessarily). The aphids will leave, the ants will also leave.
Ants love peace of mind, so they always leave places that violate their inner world. This is used by summer residents. Annual digging of the soil with the introduction of unpleasant substances into the anthill is expelled from the site.
Forest ants against garden - red and black!
Garden and household ants antagonists of forest brothers. In the forest, find an ant pile and put a top layer of earth in a dense bag with adult ants, and sprinkle them on a garden anthill at home. The garden ants will lose the war and leave the site, and the forest ants themselves will try to return to the forest in 1-2 weeks themselves( in any case, outside the dacha).
Herbal decoctions and formulations
Among other folk remedies, gardeners and truck farmers recommend various herbal decoctions and formulations.
An interesting device was offered by one of the gardeners.
- Add 1 liter of table vinegar and 2 glasses of shampoo and vegetable oil to a 10 liter bucket of water.
- In the center of the anthill, make a hole with a stalk deeper and mix the well-mixed compound through the sprayer into the hole.
- Cover entire anthill with black film or other opaque material.
- A couple of days, some of the ants will die, and the rest will leave the site.
- This technique works best if the anthill is not in the center of the plot, but at the edge.
- The surviving ants go beyond it, and not to another place in the garden.
The neighbors in the dacha gathered the ragged arrows from the garlic, rubbed them to enhance the smell and part insisted in the water. Then several razvoroshennyh anthills poured solution, and a few pelted with raster arrows. The ants are gone, but how far away is unknown. Maybe just a new place in the garden, or maybe left the site.
Having studied the habits of ants, the arrangement of their colonies, defeat the "enemy" and get rid of ants is not difficult. But that they do not return, preventive measures need to be taken constantly. They come from everywhere, and it is impossible to get rid of the ants permanently with disposable devices.
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Source: Editorial of the article by Valentina Maidurova from http: //www.botanichka.ru/blog/2016/06/30/ kak-izbavitsya-ot-muravev-na-uchastke /