At first sight ants have to bring to the seasonal dacha only benefit as they eat various wreckers. But if it is necessary to deal with big ant hill, from these insects the notable harm begins to proceed.
Advantage and harm of ants
Ants in small quantities, undoubtedly, are capable to bring to the garden site benefit. They eat slugs, caterpillars and other insects wreckers who eat garden cultures. Around ant hill the soil becomes more fertile, approximately by 10 times is enriched with phosphorus. All this advantage which is capable to proceed from ants. But all this is right only if ant hill of the modest sizes.
Ants very much love the sweet nectar emitted by plants. Sweet pad also some insects eating juice of plants are capable to form. For example, such insect is the plant louse, scales and shchitovka. Here also problems with ants as they transfer plant louse to young and healthy plants begin, it is possible to tell "graze" her. To receive in exchange sweet nectar, they take great pain to protect "herd" from plant louse. If on plants this problem was found, then it is necessary to look for somewhere nearby ant hill.
Fight against ants
The set of ways of fight against garden ants are ineffectual. Working ants to destroy there is no sense as the uterus will quickly recover population of the colony. Therefore it is so difficult to fight against ants. But not everything is so bad, effective ways of fight against insects after all are available.
Supporters of chemical means can create the special baits containing intestinal poison. These means work very effectively and quickly. However to use poison on the earth where plants will be grown up later, it is absolutely undesirable, in it there is not enough advantage. Besides the poisons operating on ants can destroy also other, useful insects.
Many folk remedies which summer residents use are absolutely inefficient. For example, creation of sweet baits will destroy only working ants, but will not influence colony in any way.
The most humane way allowing to get rid of ants on the site is transfer of ant hill. It is very difficult to do it, and the earth from ant hill should be taken out on several hundreds of meters from own site. It becomes as follows: at first shovel it is necessary to remove friable upper part of ant hill and to pour it into bucket. That ants have not run up, capacity is providently closed by cover. Then it is necessary to dig out the earth under ant hill and too to place it in buckets, also to cover with covers.
The ant hill usually goes on meter to depth therefore it is necessary to dig until eggs get. The earth with ant hill is carried away far away from the site. That insects could restore ant hill, first of all from buckets the earth with eggs gets enough sleep. On it friable part from above falls out.
Scaring away of ants
Small ant hills can be dug over, but two weeks later everything will be restored and ants will lodge on the old place. Therefore it is necessary to be able to frighten off insects correctly. Ants do not love set of smells, in particular garlic and onions. Not to allow them to climb bushes and trees, it is possible to tie trunks with the broken-out arrows of garlic. If there are no arrows, tree trunk simply is admissible to rub with garlic. To scatter garlic pieces there is around no sense because ants will carry away source hated it smell far away.
The head of rotten fish or herring is one more remarkable option of disposal of ants. It is possible to leave fish on ant hill, or to prikopat her somewhere nearby. Ants will not be able to carry away such big subject therefore they should leave far away from unpleasant smell.
It is possible to put on certain similarity of short skirts from tin or foil trunks of bushes and trees. Such protection is located on the basis of bush or tree. Ants cannot get too much cut as it too thin therefore the plant louse will not extend anywhere.
The ant hill can be filled in with boiled water and it will yield result, but only at regular repetition. Some summer residents warm sunflower oil and fill in with it all passes, in advance having removed elevated part of ant hill.
For destruction of ants on the site the bait prepared from water, sugar and yeast becomes. The received gruel is placed in matchboxes and placed near ant hill. This means is capable to banish ants from the site.
Conclusion
Ways of fight against ants great variety is thought up, but not each of them yields beneficial effect. Many ways should be repeated regularly to frighten off insects. Because of their large number to fight extremely difficult, but it is quite possible at the correct motivation.