From early childhood, we all heard stories about how highly intelligent ants are.
Together with our parents, we admired themworking capacity, "carrying capacity", an excellent ability to organize their colonies. Having matured and becoming owners of our own garden plot, we suddenly encountered completely unexpected information. Indeed, the ants are very numerous and perfectly organized. The colony, living in an anthill on the territory of a garden plot, can number up to 10 million individuals. And this means that these insects can be covered with the trunks of all trees and shrubs.
The colony needs to be fed, so the ants bred their own "domestic animals" - aphids. The tops of plants and young shoots usually serve as pastures for it.
Often aphids completely destroy plants. Indifferent to their deaths are only garden ants. Fighting them becomes a necessity and a matter of honor for every gardener.
How to lime the ants on your site?There are many ways, but they can all be divided into technical and chemical. Perhaps in the battle for the harvest you will win, and not the garden ants: fighting them requires skill, patience and systemativeness. So, let's get started!
The fight against garden ants without chemicals
Destroy an anthill can be tried without resorting to the help of industrial chemicals:
- Daily (or at least several times a week)pour it with boiling water. A purposeful and systematic struggle with garden ants with the help of boiling water can make surviving insects look for a new place of residence.
- Cover the anthill with hot ashes, bleach, cinnamon, salt, dust.
- The popular method recommends watering an anthill andhis moves are made up of a bucket of water, half a bottle of shampoo, two glasses of vegetable oil. This mixture must be poured into an anthill, having previously opened it.
- The terrain and the house itself, in which insects live, can be filled with carbide or watered with diesel fuel.
- Ants can not be allowed to the trees, because fromsuch contact plants may die. Therefore, in order to prevent these insects from colonizing tree trunks, a water barrier can be built near each of them. To do this, the old ramp from the car is cut along and surround the trunk with them, after sealing the joint. Pour water. Such a barrier will not let the pests to the bushes or trees.
- Fighting garden ants may requirestructures "skirts" for wood. Make it easy. Rigid foil wraps the bottom of the trunk from the bottom, leaving a sharp “skirt”. Ants do not differ flexibility, so the tree will not fall.
All these methods of extermination of insects actgradually. For faster (and more successful) disposal, experienced gardeners recommend the use of toxic agents sold in specialty stores.
Fight garden ants with chemicals
One of the most harmless products producedfor killing ants, is the Aeroxon sticky belt. It is impregnated with a special very sticky glue. This belt wrapped trunks and branches from the ground itself to a meter in height. Insects will not be able to overcome the barrier, but simply stick to it. You can use the following gels: "Clean House" (it helps in the garden), "Fufanon", "Absolute". Glues are also produced with the same names, but they are more suitable for processing an apartment. There are also preparations "Anteater", "Summer Resident" and "Muracid", which also effectively expels ant colonies.
