How to deal with garden ants

To get rid of garden ants, you needfirst of all to find anthills. Do not feel sorry for insects and just take the anthill into the forest: the "heap" is only the visible part of the anthill, mostly it is underground, so that the ants will return to your garden. To combat garden ants was effective, you need to remove the top part in an anthill and fill it with a remedy for garden ants.

Well proven such specialized means as Muravin, Muratsid, Muravied, Fenaksin, Grom-2 and Aktara. Part of the drugs are available in liquid form,which must be diluted in water, part - in the form of granules. The liquid is more convenient to use on lawns and areas, where there are a lot of nests, granules - on separate anthills. You must apply funds strictly according to the instructions.

You can also fight with garden ants "improvised means." The anthills are poured with kerosene and boiling water, sprinkled with ashes and carbide, treated with improvised chemical preparations. So, you can water the anthill with an emulsion of 10% carbofos (3-4 tablespoons of the preparation per 10 liters of water) or pour a strip of borax or boric acid or burs 4-5 cm wide around it.

However, there is no guarantee that you will be able to find and destroy absolutely all the anthills, so that It is worth combining the destruction of nests with other methods of struggle. So, you can fight with garden ants with the help of special poisoned baits, which decompose under the plants. Ants eat the bait and, returning to the anthill, feed her larvae.

Trees can be protected from ants with a sticky piece of paper from flies, which should be wrapped around the trunk. Such a tape will protect the trees not only from black garden ants, but also from harmful caterpillars and beetles. Please note that the tape dries out over time, so you need to change it periodically.

Alternative tape - a special adhesive gel,applied around the trunk. The popular way is wool or wool soaked in carbolic solution, or a mixture of soot with linseed oil, which you need to coat the barrel with a ring width in the palm of your hand. You can also wrap the barrel with foil by placing foam under it. Ants will not be able to get over this "skirt".

Also ants do not like harsh odors, for example, the aromas of spices. So you can scare away the garden ants,sprinkling the places of their accumulation with the next mixture. Take an incomplete glass of flour, add 1 tbsp. l. ground black pepper and the same amount of ground cloves and (or) mustard powder. An even simpler recipe is to mix coffee grounds with crushed orange peels.

You can cook Fitorpolent, who will need to spray plants from ants. Grind a pod of hot red pepper,mix with 1 tbsp. l. cayenne pepper and pour two liters of water. Boil for 15-20 minutes, cool and strain. Add 1 tbsp. l. liquid soap or dish detergent, pour into a spray bottle and spray plants that have been chosen by ants.

You can also land next to the vegetables plants that scare the ants away. This, for example, tansy, sage, basil, marigold, thyme, mint, dill. All these plants are rich in aromatic essential oils, the smell of which the garden ants do not tolerate.

To successfully deal with garden ants, an integrated approach is needed. Only then you will be able to successfully drive out the invaders from your garden and throw all the forces into the struggle with aphids that will remain without their defenders.