Garden ants are the real disaster for the summer resident. They cause the main loss to cultural plants cultivation of plant louse. Therefore to receive good harvest, it is necessary to liquidate garden ants from the site.
- Lime, acetic acid, boric acid, ashes, tar, vegetable oil, tobacco, adhesive tape, gasoline, sugar.
1. For protection of garden trees against ants, it is necessary to whitewash trunks strong solution of lime. It is desirable to apply lime on allotment around each tree.
2. It is possible to frighten off ants from fruit-trees having covered their trunks with tar. Some gardeners recommend to process trunks vegetable oil as ants do not take out its smell.
3. If you have found the ant slot, surely destroy it. Then on this place fill ashes, tobacco or lime and well dig over.
4. It is possible to cope with ants by means of hot water. In the evening slightly stir and flood ant slots with abrupt boiled water. It is possible to add to it couple of tablespoons of acetic acid. Water ant hills also with solution from boric acid and sugar. Both components need to be mixed in equal quantity and to dissolve in water.
5. Ants do not transfer smells of parsley, tansy, mustard, garlic, mint. To frighten off insects, plant these plants between beds and near fruit-trees.
6. It is possible to get rid of ants by means of sulphurous carbon. It is necessary to dig out groove of 5-7 centimeters in depth around ant hill. To pour over it and ant hill sulphurous carbon and at once to set fire. Insects perish, without having managed to escape from fire. For a long time to frighten off ants, water their dwellings with salt water. The pack of salt needs to be dissolved in bucket of water and to fill in ant hills and their vicinities.
7. Trunks of fruit-trees can be wound with adhesive tape for catching of flies. To it ants and also other mean insects will stick. To frighten off ants, it is possible to spread out near their lodges rags the wetted in gasoline or ammonia solution.