Sinful business thought to get an anteater, but the neighbor helped get rid of the ant invasion

Ants in the garden - an eternal problem. But dealing with these insects is not really that difficult. It is enough to use a couple of folk tricks. And this time we will do without boiling water! How to quickly and easily get rid of hated ants on the beds, I will tell you in today’s article.



If there are ants in the garden, do not expect anything good from them. First, these insects like to chew on sweet berries and various root vegetables. Secondly, they simply spoil the beds, undermine the roots of plants. In addition, ants can eat flower buds with nectar and damage the bulbs and roots of flowers.



However, all this is not the biggest trouble. Ants spread aphids throughout the garden, affecting both vegetable and berry beds. Aphids are the main ally of insects, as they feed on bear falls, which aphids secrete.

Interestingly, despite all the disadvantages, ants can also be beneficial. For example, in areas of insect accumulation increases the content of phosphorus and potassium in the soil. Also, thanks to ants, you can get rid of various pests in the garden. But this is no reason to leave ants the right to own beds.



Peels can remove insects both by chemical means and by folk methods. The first option we do not favor, so made a selection of safe for the garden methods. Worst of all, ants react to sharp scents. So you can try using this trick.

How to get rid of ants
  1. Mix wood sawdust with garlic squeezes, also add crushed anise leaves. The resulting mixture should be poured near all the entrances to the anthills.
  2. Ants do not like the sharp aroma of kerosene. Therefore, anthills can be poured with this substance. There is no need to set fire to anything.
  3. Insects will not live where such fragrant plants as anise, parsley, wormwood grow.



  4. The ashes from the cigarettes will also do a great job. It must be scattered near the entrances to the anthills and on the paths on which the ants move.
  5. Get rid of hated insects will help ground cinnamon. It needs to sprinkle all the places where ants live.
  6. The beds that ants strike the most, I advise to lay garlic. Insects will not like this neighborhood.


Part of the barbaric way is to trap ants. To do this, use baits in the form of sweet syrup poured into low containers. The dishes are placed in different places throughout the site. When there are enough insects in the bowls, they are poured with steep boiling water.



In addition, ants often infect fruit trees. Therefore, gardeners make special fishing belts on the trunks. How to build such a belt, told my colleague Nikolai Laduba. And the lower part of the trees can be treated with odorous hemp oil.

If there are a lot of ants and you need to get rid of them quickly, you will have to use chemical agents. There are at least 7 drugs that can be used in this situation. For example, ants It will help to remove insects in 3-5 days. Only 20 g of granules is enough to process up to 10 square meters of the plot.

Faster than ever before. water emulsion Muracid. To do this, you need to dilute 1 g of the drug in 10 liters of water and treat with a solution of 5 square meters of land. Also summer residents use substances "Phenaxin", "Anteater", "Thunder-2", "Muratox", "Great Warrior". About the use of each of them you can learn in any specialized store or on the Internet.



There is also the most humane way to get rid of ants. They just need to be evicted. To do this, wait until dark, when all the insects return to the anthill after a hard day. Take a shovel and dig an anthill, moving the land with its inhabitants into a bucket. And then just take the ants out of the garden. It is best to move insects into the forest. The hole in which the anthill was located should be filled with boiling water.

That's all the wisdom for today. I hope you need this article. It would be great if you shared it with your friends.

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