A garden ant can ruin the mood of the owner of a garden plot
Fighting ants with folk remedies
There are many methods to combat garden ants. Which one to choose depends on what materials are at hand. If one of the methods did not work in your case, do not despair. Try a different method, and you will certainly succeed.
Tar
If ants are located near a fruiting tree, this may indicate the presence of aphids. The latter supplies the ants with sweet syrup own production. To get rid of insects, smear the tree trunk with tar - ants do not like its smell and avoid contact with the sticky surface. After some time they will leave the chosen place. Just remember: to preserve the leaves and fruits, it is also important to get rid of aphids.
Ants feast on syrup, which aphids produce drop by drop every minute.
Lime
Treat tree trunks and surrounding soil with a strong lime solution. Ants don't like this procedure and most often move from the site.
Hot ash
To combat ants, you can use the following recipe. Burn weeds, leaves, tree branches and pour hot ash into ant holes. It will fall into the insect passages, destroy their eggs and force the group to leave. But if ants live in this place for a long time, there is a high probability that the product simply will not penetrate into the deep passages.
Boiling water
Gardeners often pour boiling water over ant holes. This advice helps in case of recent insect infestation (in deep holes hot water It might just not hit). To improve the effect, you can infuse boiling water on the peels of citrus fruits (grapefruit, orange). 10 minutes is enough for the product to prepare.
Garlic
Ants do not like strong odors. Tree trunks can be rubbed with arrows winter garlic(it is also advisable to arrange them along ant “paths”). Place regular garlic, ground into a pulp, near the main places where insects accumulate. Instead of this vegetable, you can use fragrant herbs (elderberry, wormwood, wild mint).
Sunflower oil
Ants really don’t like fragrant, fragrant sunflower oil. This inexpensive but very effective remedy should be used to water ant “paths”. You can also pour it directly into the holes.
Pine concentrate
Purchase pine concentrate at a pharmacy or specialty store. Dilute 75 ml of the product with water (10 liters will be enough). Pour the mixture into the holes. You can make the solution more concentrated, so you can even kill ant nests. A pungent odor will prevent insects from encroaching on your area for a long time.
Tobacco
Fill the anthill with shag (tobacco dust). You can also brew tobacco leaves in boiling water and pour the infusion into the minks. An alternative is fragrant cinnamon: the ground spice should be scattered around the anthill.
Cinnamon is great at repelling ants
Sweet syrup
Prepare sweet water (mix it with sugar or jam) and pour it into the holes. This product activates the growth of yeast in the soil. They deplete carbohydrate reserves in the soil and leave insects without food. The ants soon leave the treated areas.
You can also use molasses: lubricate the broom twigs with it and place it in the area of the burrows. Or dilute it with water and pour it into the passages.
Poison from minced meat
Combine the ground meat with a spoonful of ground borax. Place this bait near the anthill. This remedy can kill insects, and the miraculously saved individuals prefer to leave.
Natural waste
Another excellent way to combat ants is human urine. It is enough to “mark” the area several times in the right places so that the ants leave the area.
Multi-component control of ants in the garden
There are also products that are more difficult to prepare. According to reviews, they give excellent results in the fight against ants.
- Combine 10 liters of water, unrefined vegetable oil, inexpensive shampoo, vinegar (2 glasses of each, you can even take the entire bottle of the last component). Mix thoroughly. Make a hole in the middle of the anthill and pour the resulting product into it using a spray bottle. Then it is advisable to cover the anthill with film.
- Degtyarnoe black soap(4 pieces of 100 g) dilute with water. Add carbolic acid (2 tbsp), kerosene (10 tbsp). Mix well and pour over the ant holes. It may take several sessions to defeat insects.
Ants can damage plant roots
- Remember, failure to comply with the proportions during the preparation of the product can lead to the fact that insects will get used to the poison and will not react to it at all.
- Ants don't like to be disturbed. Therefore, most often they build an anthill on the ground, which is rarely dug up. How to fix the situation? Till the land more often. When digging up an ant nest, try to dig the ground as deep as possible. In this case, you can add lime, ash, ash (separately or all together) to the soil.
- The main goal of the gardener is to destroy the ant “queen” and her “heirs”. Fighting only worker ants is not effective. Therefore, it is important for an “ordinary” ant to bring poison (either on legs or eaten) into the nest and infect the flying individuals.
If an ant brings poison inside the hole, it will infect its relatives
Remember, if in the fight against garden ants you use chemicals, they may remain in the soil. Therefore, it is better to first try folk remedies, which also help well, but do not harm the plants.
With the arrival of the spring-summer season on personal plots owners are fighting for future harvest. And often their opponents are insects, which in the wild are tireless workers and bring a lot of benefits. Ants are the orderlies of the forest. At the dacha they also bring some benefit, but the harm from their activities turns out to be much greater. In this article we will tell you how to fight ants in your country house and by chemical means, as well as methods for protecting trees from insects.
Ants in the country, on the one hand, are beneficial because they control the population of others harmful insects. The goosebumps eat themselves, larvae and eggs, but along the way they cause more damage to the crops planted on the site.
Problems that arise as a result of their activities include eating sweet fruits and berries. But at the same time, insects spoil a small amount of the crop. Pests also carry plant seeds, including weeds, into their burrows. Therefore, goosebumps contribute to their spread in the garden. At the same time, a large number of weeds are spread by both wind and humans.
The most significant harm, as a result of which the fight against ants should be carried out on summer cottage, is the distribution and protection of aphids, whose milk they feed on. Insects are able to carry aphids from plant to plant, which helps them reproduce. Aphids, in turn, suck out the juice of young shoots, weakening them and reducing yield. It also spreads diseases of garden crops. In autumn, ants hide aphids in their shelters. So that with the arrival of spring it can be transferred to the plants again. There are known varieties of aphids that settle on the roots of vegetable crops.
Pests also dig underground complex systems communications, which harms lawns and beds. When asked how to get rid of ants in a summer cottage correctly, experts answer unequivocally. It is necessary to protect trees from their penetration, destroy anthills using folk remedies and carry out a merciless fight with radical chemicals.
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Methods for controlling ants in the country
Ants were found in home gardens long before chemicals were invented. Therefore, people are accustomed to fighting them with folk remedies. There are many methods in the arsenal of gardeners, some of which we will consider below.
Pouring boiling water over a discovered anthill can be considered inhumane. This is best done after sunset, when the entire ant family is assembled, or at dawn. Celandine, garlic or tobacco can serve as an addition to boiling water. Such infusions will allow you to destroy the queen with larvae and working individuals. Instead of boiling water they often use hydrochloric acid. After filling the insects' home with it, you should pour slaked lime on top. 
Sometimes the ground around the anthill is sprinkled with ground pepper, which is available in any kitchen. The fact is that goosebumps are intolerant of pungent odors, so they tend to leave the old place. Along with black pepper, red pepper is also used, which is sprinkled on ant paths and the anthill itself. It is also good to plant garlic in their habitat.
A remedy for ants in the countryside, such as vegetable oil, works great. If you treat pest locations with it, then after 2–3 procedures they will be defeated. Vegetable oil It is permissible to mix with 2 glasses of inexpensive shampoo and dissolve in 10 liters of water. Instead of shampoo, use dishwashing detergent. Ready mixture They spill the anthill, where they stick a stick for greater effect.
Some people prefer to pour a mixture of 10 tablespoons of kerosene and 10 liters of water into the insects’ home. It is recommended to cover the top with polyethylene. 
Plain table salt also performed well. To destroy a colony, you need to scatter a couple of kilograms along the paths and burrows.
Can be used wood ash. Used in the same way as salt. At the same time, it is also an excellent fertilizer for the soil. Other repellents include lime, ash, tobacco dust, bone meal, and soot. 
Gardeners often sprinkle minks and paths with ground cinnamon. Or they make a decoction of tomato tops, the smell of which is also unpleasant to ants. Practice shows that the greater its concentration, the more effective it is.
An acceptable method for everyone is the use of grain. They fill holes and numerous paths. It causes inconvenience to pests who want to move to a new place.
Popular among gardeners and poisonous baits. They are made on the basis of boric acid (aka borax). You should take 1 teaspoon and add minced meat, egg yolk, honey or sugar for sweetness. Be sure to wear gloves when working with such a mixture for your own safety. Make sure that poisonous baits do not attract your pets brought to the dacha.
Folk remedies such as scents have become widespread. Garlic, onion, anise, valerian, marigold, laurel, and cloves will help remove ants from the area. Pieces of onion, garlic, anise, and ground cloves are usually placed in places where the pest moves and near the anthill. You can soak orange or lemon peels in a bucket of water overnight.
Interesting breeding method garden ants by delivering their relatives from the forest to the site. To do this, they bring an anthill with red goosebumps to the site, which drive away the gardeners and after a couple of weeks return to the forest.
In order for insect control to be effective, you need to clear the area of rotten stumps, half-rotten boards, and weeds. Fallen fruits and berries should be removed promptly. All this attracts insects, don't give them a chance!
The modern market of pesticides offers gardeners large selection funds. They are available in the form of powders, pastes, gels, and granules. Each has its own application features, advantages and disadvantages. Chemicals should be applied along ant trails or directly to the nest. Popular products include “Aardvark”, “Absolut-gel”, “Muracid”, “Great Warrior”. For example, Anteater contains diazonin. This is an insecticide that has a contact-intestinal effect on insects. 
There are two ways of poisoning - the first occurs upon contact with a substance or an infected individual. In the second option, the poison is eaten, it enters the blood, and as a result, cholinesterase is inhibited and destroyed. The latter is responsible for transmitting nerve impulses from the brain to the muscles. The ant experiences paralysis and subsequent asphyxia. The drug is effective for 3 hours. According to the instructions, you need to dissolve 1 ml in 10 liters of water. But it is better to first pour this volume into one liter, mix and gradually introduce another 9 liters.
How to prevent ants from getting into trees?
In order not to wonder how to deal with ants, it is enough to simply protect the trees from their possible invasion. They were invented for this long ago mechanical methods. Water barriers, catching belts, and barrier skirts will allow you to create a reliable barrier against ants for the crowns of trees and the roots of seedlings. 
Water barriers are created using old car tires. They are cut into two parts and placed in the shape of a trench in tree trunk circle. Water is poured there. And then the trees will be protected not only from ants, but also from caterpillars, aphids, and spiders. Sometimes insecticides are added to the water. But remember that even beneficial insects– for example, bees pollinating plants. For large bushes, gutters are used, laying them in a square. The barrier can be created from polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride film.
Old and in an efficient way protection are belt-skirts. They are made from hard materials - thin tin, plastic or PET bottles, foil, thick film. A section of the trunk at a height of 20–40 cm from the ground is cleared of bark and smeared with plasticine or clay in combination with mullein. Next, a cone-shaped collar is wound onto the leveled area with the socket down. For fixation you will need twine or wire. A strip of rubber will help seal the structure. The insects will not be able to get over the edge of the skirt and will fall to the ground. It is best to install the belts before the first buds open. During this period, many overwintered pests rise to the crown from the ground and damage the buds. The result is a decrease in yield.
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Today we are talking about ants - how to fight them on the site, whether it is necessary to do this and what to use to get rid of too many large quantity insects?
One of the eternal questions of a summer resident: “Are ants on the property a benefit or a harm”? Each gardener decides this question for himself, based on his ideas about the role of these insects in the garden ecosystem.
K, definitely useful functions refers to the collection of insects by ants on the site. Over the summer, one ant family brings into its bins huge amount various beetles and caterpillars.
But even such garden guards have their weaknesses. They are big sweet lovers. The easiest way to get sweets is from the sweet secretions of aphids. Spreading aphids throughout plants and protecting them from natural enemies, ants contribute to the spread of the pest throughout the garden.
These sweet tooths do not shy away from ripe fruits or strawberries. At every opportunity, they will gladly destroy a ripe berry or ripe fruit, which clearly does not add popularity to the ants.
In the spring, ants happily attack planted seedlings or strawberry bushes, gnawing the stem and eating the roots.
The attitude towards the minks dug on the site is ambiguous. Some consider them useful because they loosen the soil. Brought to the storerooms organic matter(prey, plant seeds) fertilize the soil. Others consider this to be damage to the soil - the ants gnaw at the roots of plants and spread throughout the area weeds, spoil appearance lawns.
Weighing the pros and cons, each gardener decides: does he need to destroy ants in his summer cottage forever or not?
Having decided for yourself the question of fighting ants positively, other questions arise -
How to fight ants in the garden, how to get rid of ants?
To answer this question, we need to understand who we have to fight with and what types of ants live in our areas?
Types of garden ants
Ants are found everywhere, there are a huge number of species and varieties. In Russia, in garden plots more often There are only two types of ants. These are the red myrmica and the black garden ant.
Red myrmica, a big fan of aphids, grows to 4-6 mm in size, colored from yellow to red-brown. Their main food is small arthropods, both living and dead. 
Another common garden inhabitant is black garden ant. Their main food is dead insects, but they can also attack living ones; they spread and protect aphids. 
Knowing the enemy by sight, you can think about how to drive the ants out of the area. However, when fighting ants, you need to remember that it will not be possible to completely expel them from the site and this is not necessary. It is necessary that they live in the garden, but their numbers are controlled. First, about
How to kill ants using folk remedies
The following mixtures help in the fight against ants:
Chemicals for getting rid of ants on the site
The industry also does not stand still and produces drugs to combat ants.
"Thunder-2". Available in granule form. They are scattered on places where ants gather and they leave.
Another, tested repeatedly on own experience, drug "Phenaxin". On a warm spring day, the entire wall of our house from the ground to the window was black from ants crawling out into the sun. I didn’t want to have so many neighbors in the house. In the evening I sprinkled the entrances to the burrows with Phenaxin. In the morning, not a single ant appeared either on the wall or in the burrows nearby. They don’t live in these holes even now, two years later. 
The packaging of Phenaxin is convenient for sprinkling with powder right place. Through several holes punctured in the package, the powder pours out very sparingly. They can be used to sprinkle aphid accumulations anywhere. After this, both aphids and ants disappear.
Another remedy tested by my friends - gel "Great Warrior". They have country house there are ants. They dug a hole on the veranda, under the floor. It was difficult to get them there, at great depths. We tried many remedies. Some of the ants died, but new ones appeared. Gel was applied to the floor around the mink. The ants liked it and the insects gladly dragged the bait into the storerooms. 
Significant inconvenience and harm are caused by colonies of ants that have settled on a summer cottage. They can be everywhere: in the beds, in the greenhouse, flower garden, under stones. It is difficult to get rid of them, but there are proven methods and effective methods.
Why you need to fight ants
Gardeners and gardeners who have had a problem with ants know that once they have taken a fancy to your land, they will not leave, but will only come, so their populations need to be reduced. Huge colonies of these insects cause damage to flowers, trees, crops and reduce productivity. They create many troubles:They cause the spread of aphids and scale insects;
damage basal rosettes and roots;
destroy young shoots and flower stalks;
make the soil more acidic;
spread seeds weeds;
damage wooden buildings, sometimes leading to premature destruction;
cause problems for people with bites that lead to allergies, rashes, and irritations.
Folk remedies for garden ants
When a crowd of ants is discovered, any action begins with eliminating the reasons that attract their settlements. All species of these insects prefer carbohydrates, which are provided to them in full by scale insects and aphids. If you clear the garden of aphids, the main source of food, then the ants will move to more profitable places. Treat affected areas soap solution, collect in the field ladybugs and bring it to the site. Attract birds, they actively eat aphids (hang up feeders), plant herbs.Destruction of anthills
If it is possible to dig up/collect the anthill in a bucket, then do it and take it away from the site. More often, the passages are located deep in the ground and there is no way to get to the center of the cluster. In this case, apply baking soda– sprinkle the powder on ant mounds and paths.
Soda does not harm the soil; on the contrary, it reduces acidity. You can also use ash quicklime. The treatment is repeated regularly.
Mechanical destruction, digging, followed by pouring boiling water helps. If in the strawberry beds you found settlements directly in the rosette near the roots, then here mechanical methods cannot be used: pour the solution in the proportion of 30 g of linseed oil per liter, 5 g of soda.
Traps and bait
Traps with bait help to significantly reduce the number of ants. Based on the love of these insects for sweets, use honey, jam, sugar. Make several “sweet” paths to the equipped trap and then regularly collect and destroy ants by dipping them in a steep salt solution.
More effective way- use of poison laid out near the anthill. We are not talking about pesticides. Have a harmful effect on ants medicines: boric acid and borax. The concentrate should not be saturated and is prepared in two ways.
1) Half a tsp. acids are dissolved in half a liter of water + sugar.
2) 1 tsp. powder + honey/sugar water.
3) 100 ml water + half a glass of sugar + tbsp. spoon of honey + matchbox Boers.
Unpleasant odors
You can scare away ants by using plants whose smell they cannot tolerate. Plant in the garden or place on the paths, next to the anthill, leaves of parsley, lavender, mustard, mint, as well as garlic, tansy, wormwood, and marigolds. Sprinkling the anthill with sawdust soaked in anise oil and chopped garlic/onion works well.
Ants can't stand the smell essential oils, created on the basis of conifers, move away from kerosene, smoked fish, ground pepper. Laying out rags helps 100%, cotton pads, moistened with turpentine.
Strawberry plantings are subjected to special treatment against ants. Yeast-based “treats” that are harmful to these insects are effective here: 1 bag of baking powder + a tablespoon of honey. This mixture is placed between strawberry rosettes in plastic bottle caps or on cardboard. Spraying with ammonia solution (1 tbsp per bucket of water) works well. Similar method excluded during flowering and ripe berries. In this case, sprigs of tansy, mint, and wormwood are laid out.
Chemistry against garden ants
Insecticides – quick effect. Give preference to drugs based on diazinon, as this substance is quickly neutralized and reduces the likelihood of exposure to humans and pets. You can buy gels, pastes, solutions and granules with diazinon. For example: Muratsid, Great Warrior, Thunder, Anteater, Ant.
The granules not only quickly eliminate ant activity, but also continue to “work” for about a month. To do this, they are buried at a depth of 2-5 cm in places where insects accumulate. Otherwise, they work with an anthill; here it is appropriate to use a gel or solution. This will help neutralize the entire colony, including the larvae.
Insecticidal chalk can be used in greenhouses. They process everything wooden surfaces stands and fencing of beds. When fighting ants, do not forget about the benefits of these little workers, as they help clear the area of caterpillars and larvae, promote soil aeration, improve the structure, and increase the phosphorus content.
There are ants and how to get rid of them is an age-old question for gardeners and summer residents. Why it is necessary to fight them and what harm they can cause to the crop will be discussed below.
One of the favorite treats for ants is flower buds.
Why you need to get rid of ants in your garden or vegetable garden
At first glance it sounds blasphemous: to exterminate ants. Everyone knows that they are called forest orderlies, because there they really bring significant benefits. But in a summer cottage, anthills cause only harm and problems; if you look into it, the desire to feel sorry for these insects will quickly disappear.
Firstly, it suffers root system trees. This place is one of the most favorite for ants. Here they build their homes, digging deep tunnels in the ground. As a result, even the mightiest tree, whose roots are damaged by such neighbors, can live no more than five years.
Secondly, ants raise and graze aphids, and then drag them into the anthill, thereby infecting the plants and soil with these voracious insects. Therefore, a parallel fight against both ants and aphids is needed here.
And for those who do not sufficiently understand the importance of exterminating ants, it should be explained that this is not only a struggle for the harvest, but also a guarantee that the wooden buildings located nearby will last for a long time. The fact is that these insects can turn any wood into dust, and visually this will not be noticeable immediately, but the day may come when it turns out that repairs need to be made or even the building needs to be remodeled.
Thus, ants on the site do not bring benefit, but harm and pose a serious danger garden crops, harvest and wooden buildings. And pests must be fought fiercely until complete victory, otherwise there will be no point.
We destroy the anthill on the site
It is necessary to understand that the site is different from a closed residential premises. Ants are able to migrate and move to different areas. Even if you poison all the insects, after a short period of time they can be replaced by new ones, so to combat pests on the site you need to show patience and perseverance.
Things to consider
To combat ants on garden plot the following points need to be taken into account:
- implementation in various ways getting rid of pests requires adherence to certain technology. One method works immediately, others may require periodic repetition at a certain time interval;
- You shouldn’t use just one method, you need to try several, experiment, look at the result and ultimately choose the most effective method in your case;
- take into account the influence of the products used on the plants; when choosing a method, it is necessary to take into account where the anthill is located and the planting of the surrounding area.
- the most good timing Autumn is the time to fight ants, since the area has been prepared for winter, all the crops have been harvested, the flowers have been cut, and you can safely enter into battle with insects. Of course, the fight also needs to be carried out in spring and summer, but it won’t be as active as in the fall.
Ways to fight
To understand how to destroy an anthill on a site, it is important to know that ants appear most often in areas where the site is rarely treated, because they do not like to be disturbed. That is why the main preventive measure is cultivation of the land. If you find an anthill, you must first dig it deeply and destroy it.
The most harmless methods for the garden and its plants are:
- pour hot ash into the anthill;
- pour boiling water over the anthill;
- ants cannot stand the smell of garlic, so to protect trees you need to pick arrows of winter garlic and tie them around the tree trunks, or simply rub the bark;
- pour sugar syrup into several bottles and place them around the area near the burrows; when the bottles contain a lot of insects, pour boiling water over them;
- pour sunflower oil into the holes;
- ants cannot tolerate urine; if you pour it into an anthill, you will definitely get rid of them for a long time;
- pour lime or tobacco dust into the anthill, then pour water on it; the resulting reaction can kill the insects;
- sprinkle soda on the anthill and ant paths;
- Place wormwood, wild mint and elderberry leaves next to the anthill.
- mix ten liters of water, two glasses sunflower oil, a bottle of vinegar and any shampoo. Pour this mixture into the ant’s home and cover the top with film;
- soak in water orange peels and pour this solution over the anthill;
- Place minced meat with the addition of ground borax next to the anthill;
- dissolve a piece in a bucket of water laundry soap, add ten tablespoons of kerosene and carbolic acid, stir well. Spray the trees and anthill with this mixture, after a while the ants will disappear;
- lubricate tree trunks at the base with tar;
- water the anthill with a concentrated solution of water and boric acid;
- sprinkle ant nests with ground cinnamon;
- wet rags with carbolic acid and place them near the anthill and in places where pests are located; the smell will scare them away and force them to leave the area.
Advice on how to move an anthill: To do this, you need to make a path from their anthill, watering it with a sweet solution, to a new location, for example, under stones. Pour plenty of sweet water under the stones too. The ants will immediately take a liking to the new location.
Use of chemicals
Important! All insecticides have a toxic effect and serve primarily as a threat to the soil, crops grown on the site and fruit trees. It is important to carry out processing following the instructions and using personal protective equipment.
There are a lot on sale now chemicals to get rid of ants. Processing with them must be done several times until complete:
- Range - very effective remedy, causing paralysis in pests. After treatment, within a couple of days there will be no ants or their larvae left. But the protective effect of this drug lasts only three weeks, then the ants may appear again.
- Absolute gel - first of all, the female dies from it and the ant colony stops reproducing. IN included a special syringe, with its help the product is injected into the anthill.
There are many ways to get rid of an anthill on your property. Of course, repelling or destroying pests using a more plant-friendly method is a labor-intensive and longer process, but also more humane. Still, it is better to have a garden with ants than a lifeless piece of land filled with poisons.
In any case, no matter what method you choose, do not forget that your fight against these pests must be constant. Check all secluded places in your garden for the presence of new anthills; if found, do not hesitate. Only in this way will you be able to reduce the ant infestation to a minimum.