Hi all! Today I want to touch on a sentimental topic for summer residents, gardeners and gardeners - ants. Anyone who has experienced them will understand. If you notice these individuals on your plantations, you need to help them pack their bags and send them home from your territory as soon as possible. But before you deport, take a closer look at them. They are divided into two types - forest and garden.

Forest ones are beneficial, so if a red goosebump has climbed up to you, you should not worry. It feeds on insects and will not harm. If black or yellow walk around the site, it is worth sounding the alarm, these are garden ones and they bring significant damage. Is not in the best way affects the quality of the crop, as well as its quantity.

Therefore, such insects must be disposed of when they first appear on the site. Which method to choose? Everyone decides individually. We have only collected the most effective of them and we hope that they will help you get rid of these insects. Or maybe you have your own, proven method of struggle, please share it with us below in the comments.

Ants on the site - the benefits and harms

Scientists and gardeners have long discussed what harm and benefit ants bring. Of course, most of them believe that these insects are pests.

But from the minuses you can make a whole list:

• Most often, ants place their dwelling in the roots of plants. This disrupts nutrition, especially young and still fragile seedlings. pests can also gnaw on the roots of shoots, which will lead to the death of even established plants.
• Due to the fact that these pests dig many branched tunnels in the ground, its thermoregulation is disturbed. And the process of assimilation of fertilizers is wrong.
• Ant nests damage the integrity of insulated ridges and flower beds. they can destroy wooden structures.
• In some cases, these pests spoil unopened flower buds by partially eating them. This leads to slow flowering and reduced decorative effect.
• Thanks to these individuals, aphids can spread. And we all know how dangerous it is for the foliage of almost any garden or garden culture. The aphid is a distributor of fungal and viral diseases, it feeds on the juices and greens of crops.
• Insects like to eat sweet fruits (berries, fruits), this reduces the yield and its quality.
• They are excellent weed carriers. Due to the fact that they arrange stocks of seeds in their anthills.

As you can see, they do more harm than good. Therefore, we offer the most best practices control of these pests. Do not give up if one of them does not fit, try another. After all universal remedy from these pests have not yet been found. It is better, of course, to carry out an integrated approach in the fight against the invaders.

Effective insect control in the garden and garden with folk remedies

You can get rid of ants. But the best way will drive them to another place than to destroy the countless number of these small insects.

Boric acid

It helps to solve the problem instantly. In addition, the composition includes other ingredients.

We will need:

• 30 g powder boric acid;
• 5 tbsp Sahara;
• 1 liter of boiling water;
• 100 g rast. oils.

Mix the powder with sugar. We dissolve them in boiling water. We add oil. We mix. The mixture is ready.

To enhance the effect of the composition, you can add a glass table vinegar or a few drops of essential oil.

We make a hole in the anthill, as deep as possible. Pour the mixture into it and cover with a piece of polyethylene. We fix the edges. We repeat the procedure in a couple of days.

Digging up an ant's nest

Quite a radical method of dealing with insects. It is carried out by digging up the entire anthill and moving it outside the boundaries of your garden or garden. To do this, you will need to wear a special suit.

Digging is carried out as deep as possible. After that, the nest is immersed in a bucket or wheelbarrow and moved as far as possible from its site.

They come to this method only in cases where other methods do not help in the fight against ants.

So that residents do not build a new place of residence in the same place, the hole from the dug out anthill must be sprinkled with salt or ash from the furnace.

Kerosene

Its pungent odor is an irritant to ants. It is enough to pour over their nest and the place around it so that the pests start looking for new housing.

You can’t use this method in the garden, otherwise all the bushes will die. Therefore, gardeners have found a way out: they lay small pieces of cloth soaked in kerosene around the bushes. In this case, they will run away, and the trees and shrubs will not suffer.

Sunflower oil and boiling water

A good way to get rid of pests once and for all. Dilute the oil in boiling water and fill all the entrances to the anthill. To enhance the effect with a strong scent, use: black ground pepper, camphor, fennel or bay leaf.

Of course, it is unpleasant to see how these pests ruin the crop, because so much labor and time are put into it, so as soon as you see a cluster of garden ants, feel free to declare war on them.

How to permanently get rid of ants in the garden at home?

There are many ways to deal with ground ants that spread and protect aphids, thereby causing a lot of trouble. The most effective and popular are presented below to destroy these pests forever:

1. Soap solution

The safest and easiest way. Due to the soap foam that gets on the insect, oxygen will stop flowing through the skin and the insect dies.

We will need:

• 10 liters of water;
• 0.1 l of liquid soap.

Mix the ingredients and spray the affected plants in the evening. The liquid will dry and leave an impenetrable film.

2. Borax solution

A rather toxic mixture, but in best case you can destroy the whole ant family.

We will need:

• 1 glass of water;
• sweetener (sugar, honey or jam);
• 1 tsp borax solution 20%.

We dissolve borax in water, add a little sugar and outline the anthill with a thick layer. Also, the solution can be distributed over the lids of jars and placed near the entrances to the nest.

If individuals die without leaving the feeder, the solution is too concentrated.

The best result is if the insect dies in its home. Thus, it will become food for its relatives. And this will lead to the destruction of the entire anthill.

3. Yeast

They can be used both in the form of granules and fresh.

An anthill is sprinkled with dry. They poison the food supply of insects. Thus, the workers and the queen are destroyed.

From fresh yeast prepare a mixture in the form of balls. Sweets are also added to it: sugar, jam or honey. After that, it is laid out around the nest and in places where they accumulate.

At first, it may seem that the number of insects has increased. But this is due to the fact that ants love sweets. After a while, the tool will have its effect and the pests will disappear.

4. Not in all cases, you can successfully deal with ants. But if you want to get rid of them permanently, it is better to use chemicals. For example, Ant-eater. He is very praised in the gardening forums.

He copes not only with ants, but also with bugs, aphids and other insect pests. Causes paralysis of insects within 2 days after treatment.

Other drugs are also popular: Fitoverm, Aktara, Kombat, Intavir. Do not forget to carefully read the instructions and use the product in the recommended dosages.

They need to process not only the affected cultures, but also neighboring ones. Even if there are no significant signs of insects on them.

If you are against the use of chemicals in suburban area, read on the article, there are still reliable ways to help destroy insects.

What to do if ants are wound up in a greenhouse, how to get them out?

Black ants are most often planted in greenhouses. They cause damage to seedlings and seeds of plants. If you do not pay attention to pests in time, you can lose more than half of the crop.

Why are small insects dangerous in a greenhouse?

• Ants are carriers of various plant diseases.
• When arranging an ant nest suffers root system cultures.
• Insects are aphids.

Therefore, it is worth starting the processing of the greenhouse from ants in time to save the crop:

1. Ammonia

The first thing to remember is that ammonia in the greenhouse is only used in diluted form. And before starting treatment, you should wear goggles, a mask and gloves. The doors to the greenhouse must be open.

There are several ways to use ammonia:

1. We breed 2 tbsp. ammonia in 5 liters of water. Pour the mixture over anthills and places where insects accumulate.
2. The same solution can be moistened with a fabric that absorbs moisture well. Cover an ant's nest with it.
3. Spraying the foliage of crops will also help to cope with ants. The solution is prepared from 10 liters of water and 10 ml of ammonia. The mixture is watered under the root of the seedlings. To carry out spraying, it is necessary to add 3-4 tbsp. Sahara. Stir until dissolved and process greens.

2. Millet and semolina

One of the long-known ways to deal with small pests.

It is safe, economical and does not harm plants. You just need to shower the ant nest with grits. The stomach of insects is designed in such a way that it is not able to digest grains. Therefore, eating millet, the ants will die. We do the same with mango.

3. Vinegar

Undiluted, it is dangerous to absolutely everyone. Therefore, you can use it to destroy intruders.

The solution will need vegetable oil and 9% vinegar (1 to 1). Mix thoroughly and pour into the anthill. This method helps to cope with insects in 2-3 days.

4. Soda

A tool, like soda, is universal. It not only fights well with dirt in the kitchen, but also with ants in the greenhouse. It will not harm the soil if used in small amounts.

There are several ways to fight:

1. Mix soda with powdered sugar and sprinkle it on the ant's nest. Powder lures pests, and soda kills them.
2. It is necessary to pour 2 tbsp. boiling soda. Mix thoroughly and pour over the anthill. Cover it with a tarpaulin or just bury it. Then the access of oxygen will be cut off and the ants will die.

5. Vinegar and soda

Enough explosive mixture to kill ants. We make a small hole in the nest. Pour soda inside. Fill with vinegar. When the process of boiling the mixture has passed, cover the anthill with earth.

The above methods should definitely work in your favor. Use them in a complex way to surely quickly and effectively overcome the ants.

How to get rid of goosebumps in the apiary and in the hives?

What is the invasion of ants, experienced beekeepers know firsthand. This ordeal can take a long time. Because it is impossible to deal with them quickly. The main thing to consider specific case, and only then select a specific method.

1. Pungent odors

Grinding onion and spread throughout the apiary. The vegetable has a pungent odor and quickly repels insects.

You can also use: chopped garlic, smoked herring, parsley or tomato sprigs, cinnamon.

And yet, I read on the forum that they are afraid of the smell of rotten fish, supposedly they are running away from this unbearable stench with the whole family. No wonder, I would have run away too ...

2. Salt

It can be done in two ways:

• Spray saline around the hives.
• Sprinkle salt along the paths of ants and places where they accumulate. In the same way, you can use ash, dry mustard or soda.

3. Processing the legs of the hive

So that the ants do not have the opportunity to climb into the houses of the striped workers, it is necessary to carry out preventive actions even before the appearance of pests:

• wrapping with double-sided tape;
• solid oil treatment;
• attaching medical cotton;
• winding with animal fur, except sheep.

When removing ants from the hives, do not forget about the bees. Otherwise, overdoing it - you will bring out the bees. Approach this matter with caution.

We fight insects on fruit trees

For trees, ants are dangerous because they can be carriers of aphids. Then you have to deal with two types of insect pests. In isolated cases, uninvited guests win this fight and the tree has to be cut down.

Carbolic acid

Its 20% solution is poured into the anthill. Then it remains for the small insects to flee, since they are afraid of this acid like fire.

Lime

A tree trunk is coated with a thick solution of water and lime. This will become an obstacle for climbing ants on trees.

Garlic

They can rub tree trunks. This will serve as a prevention of the appearance and an excellent way to expel already established individuals.

You can also tie the stem with garlic feathers. This should be done at a height of 20-30 cm from the soil surface. Ants will not be able to overcome such an obstacle.

How to process peonies to bring out ants. Folk method of destruction on flowers

Many people wonder, why fight these pests in flower beds? After all, they do not cause any harm to flowers. They especially love peonies, and many consider it their duty to exterminate this offspring of insects. And I'll tell you - you're doing the right thing. They really do not cause harm and the flowers bloom beautifully, but only they will continue to spoil the fruits and multiply the aphids. Therefore, it is still worthwhile to show them who is the owner of the site.

We fight with the above methods that will not harm the plant, and I also suggest watching a short video in which the author shares folk way how to expel uninvited guests with rhubarb.

As you understand, there are many ways to get rid of these pests. The main thing is to find the right one and not give up, victory will be yours. But it's best to do preventive measures insect control in advance. So that they do not have the desire to settle in your area and enjoy the harvest.

I really hope that our presented methods will help you defend your territory without special work. Be sure to share which method proved to be the most effective.

That's all for me! See you soon!

When the first spring days come and the work is in full swing, every summer resident will have a hard fight against ants in their summer cottage. To overcome such difficulties, you can use useful folk remedies.

Let's figure out - ants are harmful or useful

Before exterminating the ant, let's get to know him better, so to speak, find out who we are dealing with, and what if he turns out to be not such a pest as many used to say.

Ants are insects that are found in every country in the world, very adapted to any climatic conditions and there are many species, about 9 thousand. These highly intelligent creatures are grouped into colonies, which can number up to ten million individuals. They are very organized, hardworking and can live both on the ground and in trees.

Most often, we meet with ants in the country, of two types: a black garden ant and a red one. Red ants have wings, so they are called flying. black garden views, do not build anthills, but prefer to settle in minks dug in the ground or on trees, which is why they are dangerous for country plantations. With flying ants, there can be problems in the house. In addition, both black and winged ants, are carriers of aphids.

What are the benefits of an ant

Ants are a link in the chain of natural circulation. Eating others harmful insects they protect plants. When tunnels are dug in the ground, the soil is saturated with oxygen, the soil becomes rich in nitrogen, potassium, and humus.

Insect damage

From such small pests, there can be very big troubles at their summer cottage. Reproducing exponentially, black ants seek food for their offspring by eating a lot of plants. Most of all, ants like to feast on strawberries, currants, potatoes, carrots and other cultivated plants. Settling in your personal plot, ants will cause great harm:

• eating juice cultivated plants and trees garden ants they gnaw on the protective cover, from which fungal bacteria can infect the plant and it begins to hurt;
• gnawing the roots of a tree, they like to make their colonies there;
• in the garden, seeds and plants are often eaten;
• a great love for sweets leads to the eating of red berries and fruits;
• digging their new nests on the ground, they cover the sprouts with earth;
• at the place of their stay, the acidity of the soil changes, which harms the growth of plantings;
• garden ants, specially bred and feed on aphids, without aphids, ants are doomed to starvation;
• breaking through tunnels, spoil the flower bed, lawn and garden beds.

Ant Control Chemicals

Fighting ants on garden plot exhausting and labor intensive. Most effective remedy fight against ants, fight them with chemical means. With the help of insecticides, you can destroy all the pests in the garden in a short period of time. The drugs are detrimental to nervous system ants and pests die.

Use of chemicals

It is not always possible to completely defeat the entire anthill using contact preparations. The heart of the colony, the queen and larvae, are hidden under a deep ball of earth and are under reliable protection. The only way to get rid of ants in the garden is to use poisonous baits and gel against them. When the worker ant feeds the poisoned bait to the larvae and queen, the pests will stop breeding and disappear.

Chemical control agents are produced in granules, tablets, powders or liquids. Some drugs:

• "Phenaksin";
• "Ant";
• "Aktara";
• "Muracid";
• "Ant-eater";
• "Thunder-2";
• "Summer resident";
• "Muratoks";
• "Bros";
• "Fitar";
• "Death to pests."

All chemical preparations, according to their action, are complex and highly specialized. It is more effective to apply contact insecticides and poisonous baits that ants eat.

The instruction, for all drugs is the same, the composition includes a substance that causes paralysis. Anteater and Anteater, a very effective remedy, is distinguished by the ability to exterminate not only ants, but also their larvae. At the same time, Muravyin protects the site for about a month.

If pests are wound up in the house, you can poison them with Dichlorvos. Well helps to exterminate yellow pests - Raptor, proven and very affordable way fight them. And Ant falls asleep in the ant holes under the house.

Harm of chemicals

Since chemicals are poisonous and dangerous, they should not be allowed to enter the body of humans and pets.

When working with insecticides, it is important to protect the pond from chemicals.

It should be remembered that the fight against ants in the garden with the help of pesticides harms environment. Applying chemical methods, it is important to observe safety measures, protect your hands with rubber gloves and wear a respirator.

Folk ways of fighting

But how to get rid of ants in your garden if you care about the ecology of your garden and the crop grown on it. Then, it is better to use folk remedies and not to use chemicals. The number and variety of such methods is impressive. Summer residents use to fight spicy plants, yeast, dust, sprinkle with vinegar, and many other methods that have very effective results.

Getting rid of ants in the area

To comprehensively get rid of garden ants, you need to lime the anthill itself. To do this, you can sprinkle the dwelling of insects with lime, ash, ashes or small sawdust. Consider others, helpful ways how to exterminate and scare away ants in the country:

1. Black ants can't stand odors herbs. You can sow parsley, laurel, anise, valerian, rhubarb and mint in the garden. Folk remedies, garlic or a sprig of wormwood is considered to be cut into pieces.
2. Pour coniferous concentrate diluted with water into the anthill to destroy the colony.
3. Get rid of ants in the area quickly, ground cinnamon will help.
4. Helps well baking soda mixed with lime. Such a powder should be sprinkled on the path and mound.
5. Boric acid is poured into the houses with the addition of 5 tablespoons of sugar for a glass of solution. If you pour such a mixture into a container, then the ants, trying to drink syrup, will drown in it.
6. You can mix dry oregano with sulfur and mix the powder with the ground, such folk remedies are sprinkled with dwellings where ants live.
7. It is of great benefit to fight them if you pour ant paths with kerosene or sunflower oil.
8. Treatment of invasion sites with ammonia helps against the accumulation of insects, as well as in the fight against aphids.
9. Having previously dug out the nest, pour boiling water over it or cover it with hot ash.
10. To get rid of the anthill, a poisonous mixture is poured there, add a glass to 5 liters of water sunflower oil, a glass of liquid soap and a glass of vinegar. Seal the house with foil and leave for two days.
11. Ants are also burned. Make a moat around the hill to fill with sulfuric carbon and set it on fire. So, we get rid of the whole colony by simple means.

Useful methods - herbal tinctures:

• infusion of wormwood;
• black elderberry;
• on tobacco leaves;
• roots and stems of celandine;
• tansy;
• mustard.

Despite the fact that garden ants themselves can produce acid, they are very afraid of the appearance of other acids in their territory. Daily acid treatment will forever help get rid of an unpleasant neighborhood. For these procedures, you can apply:

• citric acid;
• grape;
• salt;
• sulfuric;
• vinegar.

Human urine also contains acid and ammonia. If you don’t bother at all, the summer resident can use such methods.

Practical ways are sweet baits and traps. Insects run to spilled sweetness, where we can pour boiling water over them, kill, poison or drown them.

Use of baits and traps:

1. We get rid of with the help of a sweet bait, which can be prepared with honey or sugar. Pour water into the container, add syrup and wait until the pests come to get drunk and drown.
2. Another type of bait is a meat trap. For cooking, you need borax and minced meat. All this is stirred and put to the ants for eating.
3. It will also help, yeast bait. Yeast is poison for the ant. To prepare, you need to take the yeast, dilute it with water to a creamy consistency, add jam here. Apply bait to hard surfaces. They put new baits once a week.
4. The most effective means of struggle is a trap with a sponge for dishes. If you saturate it with honey and put it on an ant path, then you can daily dip a whole flock of ants stuck around a sponge in boiling water.

To prepare poisonous baits, you need:

• stir a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of borax and a teaspoon of honey into two tablespoons of boiling water;
• stir a raw egg with flour, add red pepper, and borax is suitable as a poison.

If you make such baits, you can protect fruit tree, shrubs and garden beds on which ants are wound up, and at the same time, deal with aphids.

Removing pests from trees

What to do if garden ants harm plantings in a summer cottage, how to protect your plants? When the main goal is not to eliminate insects, but to protect your garden from pest invasion, the following methods are needed:

1. You can block the path to a tree or bush with a water moat. To build such a barrier, you need car tires. Having cut it in half, we put it on a bush or a small tree and fill it with water. For a large tree, cut the tire vertically and then pour sealant into the cut. Now you can't get close to your tree.
2. Decorate the tree trunk with foil. It needs to be fixed so that you get a skirt with sharp edges. Oddly enough, but ants cannot overcome such an obstacle.
3. By using plastic bottle, you can make a similar skirt with your own hands.
4. It is recommended to wrap the tree trunk with adhesive tape, securing it with a rope. Practical to use at home Double-sided tape. The use of tape will make it impossible to move further along the tree.
5. Roofing material wrapping, similar methods with adhesive tape. We smear the winding with glue. In conditions of a viscous consistency of glue, ants will not be able to climb a tree.
6. They practice making sheepskin windings. It is necessary to tie tree trunks with wool on the outside, coat the inside with carbolic acid. This method will help remove insects from raspberries and other shrubs.
7. Birch tar is applied to a fruiting tree. Having a specific smell, he will be able to drive away the ants.
8. The trunk of the tree is tied with tops of tomatoes and the tops are laid out on the paths. From bad smell, insects leave their nests. For destruction, a decoction is boiled from the tops and ant concentrations are watered.
9. Sprinkle boric acid powder mixed with sugar around the tree. And if this does not help, then you can use Ant.

We remove ants from the garden and greenhouse

To permanently get rid of ants in the garden, you need special tricks. Chemistry in this case will not work, it is better to remove the ants from the garden with folk remedies. If the soil is not cultivated correctly, this can lead to its pollution, and pests will restore their numbers in the garden with renewed vigor. In addition, where garden ants appeared, aphids also start up. The destruction of aphids is necessary, otherwise you cannot save the cucumber bed. If these insects have already arrived in your garden, it is important to deal with ants and aphids at the same time.

A garden and a greenhouse is an ideal habitat, it is warm and there are constant supplies to feed the colony. But how to get ants out of the garden without damaging plants that may have aphid larvae?

Having settled in the greenhouse and in the garden, garden ants make nests on the planted seedlings, eat seeds in the garden. The summer resident must take action in time. The best folk remedy for annoying ants in the garden is treatment with a solution of soda and linseed oil land, per liter of water 8 grams of soda and 25 grams of linseed oil.

Watering the greenhouse is not bad, infused mustard. For the solution, you need dry mustard 50 grams per liter of water. The solution needs to be infused for two days. Stir the infused solution with two liters of water and spray the plants.

The easiest way to get rid of harmful tenants in the garden is sweet bait. It is enough to pour water into an unnecessary container with the addition of honey, jam or sugar, so the ants will run to the dessert and drown in the water.

To protect against ants in the garden, try to fill the burrows with millet, semolina is also suitable. Sprinkle with earth on top so that birds do not peck it.

If you notice ant mounds in a cucumber garden, in a simple way cope with them, he will dig a nest with his own hands and drive out insects. Fill the remaining hole with ash, ashes or pour boiling water. And in the soil, before planting, pour salt dissolved in water.

In a strawberry clearing, you can also scatter ashes and ashes. If the berries are already large and red, then apply ammonia, 7 liters of water per tablespoon of alcohol. You can also sprinkle with small sawdust.

Biological agent and prevention

Big red ants know how to get rid of ants in the garden and garden. If you settle these forest dwellers in a summer cottage, they will plot and evict the gardeners. To the question of how to get rid of ants in the garden and summer cottage, the answer will be - timely protection and prevention. So it will be easier for you to deal with pests.

So that no one disturbs them, garden ants settle on poorly cultivated soil. If you often dig up the ground in the garden, around trees, in flower beds and a vegetable garden, you can prevent the appearance of such uninvited guests. In early spring, you can treat each tree trunk with hard-diluted lime and the ground around the tree. Such prevention and useful folk remedies will greatly increase the yield in your garden and allow you to admire a flowering and fertile garden.

How to deal with ants in a summer cottage to get rid of them forever? By answering this question, you can be calm for your beds. Ants happen different types. Unlike red forests, which are specially bred to help fight pests, their garden relatives are undesirable in the country or in the garden.

Ants bring irreparable damage to the garden, as they breed aphids on the tops of shrubs and fruit and berry trees. Aphids produce a nutritious syrup that ants love to feast on. Therefore, the garden ant guards these insects so carefully and cares for them, creating sheltered places for them.

Aphids and eat dangerous pest for flowers, shrubs and fruit trees, which are rich in cottages. It sucks the juice from plants that stop growing, wither and dry. Because of this misfortune, you can be left without a crop of vegetables and fruits. The pest reproduces due to the actions of ants. Ants transfer aphids to young shoots of trees as high as possible so that various predatory beetles, lacewings, and flies do not get it. Sometimes aphids can settle in the roots of trees, and ants help them reproduce by creating for them ideal conditions. In autumn, smart ants hide aphids in their nests until the next warming in next year. And then again they are bred on the mountain to gardeners.

When we fight aphids using various means, there will be no result. Ants will interfere, which also harm the fact that they oversaturate the soil with acidity. This is bad for the growth and development of crops. Anthills scattered around the garden interfere with plants.

Ants should not be in the garden, because they themselves destroy berries, vegetables, root crops, especially those containing sugar. Feeding on nectar from the peony bud, they bite into the flowers to get more juice. As a result, the flowers dry out, taking on ugly shapes. Not a trace remains of the former beauty of the garden. Therefore, it is impossible to live with ants in the garden.

Ant habits

To know how to get rid of ants, you need to study their habits. Destroying garden ants is not easy, because there can be a lot of them. The passages of these insects under the ground reach several kilometers. Reproducing rapidly, they are able to form new nests weekly.

Fight garden ants with pesticides and homemade poisons useless. The destruction of anthills will not help, their insects instantly restore. To clear the garden of ants, it is necessary to destroy their queen - the uterus. Between ants there is a strict distribution of responsibilities. The uterus is the main one in the anthill. Her task is to lay many eggs, from which new ants grow, including queens. Having matured, young queens leave their home to form new anthills. Working ants are engaged in breeding aphids, they make up the majority of the inhabitants of the anthill. If hard workers die, then this is not scary for the family, because more and more workers are produced by the uterus. Even destroying the anthill, you can not reach the queen, as she is in the bowels of the nest. At the first danger, the egg-laying female runs away to create a new nest and new offspring. Therefore, it is difficult to say how to deal with ants in the garden.

How to deal with ants

Fighting ants in a summer cottage will require:

• protect trees from insects;
• use chemicals.

To prevent insects from reaching the tree, you need to create a barrier for them. There are several ways to protect green spaces from pests:

1. Ornamental and berry crops are protected with a water barrier. Need to cut car tire into 2 parts along the tread. Then the rubber is threaded through the bush and it needs to be dug in with soil. The edges should protrude above the ground. The joint between the parts of the tire is sealed. Water is poured into such an artificial moat. Ants will not be able to get to the bush.
2. How to get rid of ants with a tinfoil skirt? The tree trunk should be wrapped with foil to make a skirt with sharp edges. These edges will not allow ants to get to the top of the tree.
3. Using an adhesive belt, you can protect the plant from ants and other pests. The belt should be wrapped around the trunk at a level of about 70 cm from the ground and secured with a rope. The glue won't harm the plant, but it will keep the ants from climbing the tree. In the spring, you need to remove the old adhesive belt, replacing it with a new one - awakened bugs and caterpillars should not harm the tree.

Effective means of dealing with ants

The anthill consists of complex branches, passages and exits that go deep underground.

Hordes of insects are subject to a strict hierarchy. Therefore, using insecticides, it is impossible to effectively deal with ants in the country. The chemicals will just kill the hard workers. Getting to the queen and her larvae in this way is unrealistic. Here you can not do without food poisoned baits and gels.

The secret of the baits is that they act through the worker ants on the larvae and the uterus not immediately, but gradually. In dry and calm weather, poisoned baits should be laid out near the anthill. Worker insects will bring food with poison to the larvae and the uterus. The anthill is over if the main female and larvae can be eliminated.

Highly effective drugs include:

• Diazinon;
• liquid poisonous substances for ants.

Diazinon (a colorless liquid with a faint odor) attacks the nervous system of ants and causes them to become paralyzed. If the site is treated with this organophosphorus compound, then after 2 days there will be no more ants here. All larvae and adults will be destroyed. New anthills will not appear.

The poisonous liquid is applied as follows: a recess is made in the anthill and the solution is poured into it. This place should be closed plastic wrap by pressing it to the ground with stones or boards. Under the influence of a chemical solution, the entire ant family dies. The liquid must be prepared before use.

Folk remedies in the fight against ants

How to get rid of garden ants folk remedies? You can turn to them if there are not so many insects in the garden.

The following remedy is effective for fighting ants in the garden. For its preparation you will need:

• 10 liters of water;
• 2 cups of shampoo;
• 2 glasses of vegetable oil;
• 1 liter of vinegar.

The mixture must be sprayed with a sprayer into the hole that is made in the anthill. The recess is covered. After 3 days, garden ants will die.

One more way. To do this, take:

• laundry soap (400 g);
• carbolic acid (2 tablespoons);
• kerosene (10 tablespoons).

Soap should be softened to warm water. Mix everything well and pour into the anthill. It is enough to carry out 3 such procedures.

Folk remedies will help if there is not a large invasion of insects. But they do not guarantee 100% results. The fight against garden ants will be effective if chemical agents are used. Ants appear and disappear.

Often, ants that have settled in a garden or vegetable garden cause a noticeable decrease in yield. fruit crops. Some types of ants spoil the roots of plants, others gnaw on ripening fruits and vegetables. In addition, ants contribute to the appearance on the garden plot a large number aphids (they colonize aphids, feed on their honeydew), and aphids damage the ground parts of plants and their roots. Folk remedies for ants in the garden allow you to get rid of pests with minimal cost financial resources and physical strength.

Site protection

To protect gardens and vegetable gardens from ants, you can:

• Drive them away from the site or cottage. Ants settle more often where there is enough food and a calm environment. In the case of ants that have settled in the beds, you need to dig several times upper layer soil in the place of their settlement and destroy the aphids, which they diligently breed. This reduces the number of ants in the garden and forces them to leave in search of a more suitable place.
• Relocate. If there is an above-ground anthill on the site, instead of destroying it, it is better to move it outside your garden or vegetable garden. To do this, the upper part of the anthill and the soil are removed by 2 bayonets of a shovel under it, and transferred somewhere outside the site, preferably for some natural reservoir. Ants will quickly get used to the new place, and those working individuals that remain on the site will die in a few days.
• Repel strong odors. Ants do not like the smell of wormwood, lavender, garlic, tansy, mint, marigold, and various spices. Where their fragrance is felt, insects prefer not to settle, so such herbs become an excellent prevention against ants and can be used in the spring and summer, when ants are actively looking for places to settle. But leaving these plants next to an active anthill is useless - working individuals will take them away from their home.

The ant brain consists of 250,000 cells, so the ant is considered one of the most intelligent insects.

Methods of destruction on the site

You can remove ants on the site with the help of improvised means and substances that are probably in the kitchen or in the medicine cabinet in every home.

Can be used:

• Baking soda and boiling water. Two tablespoons of soda are diluted in 1.5 liters of water and poured into the anthill (the upper part of the anthill must be removed or slightly opened). This mixture will not kill all insects, but will give them a lot of discomfort. After several such procedures, they will begin to look for another place to build their home. Ordinary boiling water can be watered with beds in which ants are wound up, only if plants are not planted there.

• Borax or boric acid and sugar. A third of a teaspoon is mixed with a tablespoon of sugar (or honey, jam) and dissolved in a few tablespoons of water. Ready liquid poured into small plates and placed in places of accumulation of ants. The dosage should be strictly observed, since the bait is designed not only for working individuals, but also for the larvae that are inside the anthill. If the dosage of the poisonous substance is increased, the worker ants will die before they have time to bring pieces of food to the anthill. Caution: This bait can be dangerous to all pollinating insects.

• Meat bait with boric acid (borax). Two tablespoons minced meat mix with a teaspoon of borax, roll into small balls and place in places of accumulation of ants. This bait works similarly to the previous one.
• Yeast. Unlike boric acid, yeast is absolutely non-toxic and safe for humans and pets, but for ants it is fatal. Yeast is mixed with water to a paste-like consistency, honey, sugar or jam are added. The mixture is laid out near the anthill, for some time it will poison all adults and larvae.

• Using wood ants to fight garden ants. It's unusual and not quite humane way. An anthill of forest ants is found in the forest and part of its upper layer is removed along with insects, placed in a tight bag. They bring garden ants to their site and pour garden ants onto the anthill. Ants begin to fight among themselves, as a result of which all garden ants die (they are weaker). But this method also leads to the death of many forest ants, and they play an important role in the forest ecosystem.

Folk remedies do not allow immediately, sometimes the whole process stretches for 2-3 weeks, or even more. But most of them are safe for humans and have a gentle effect on the soil, since they do not require the use of potent toxic agents.