Ants are dangerous neighbors who prefer to occupy not only country houses, but also the parcels where they cause essential damage to garden plants. Fight against these insects is difficult task therefore demands competent and integrated approach.
Means for fight against insects
The problem of emergence of ants on the parcels affects large number of summer residents and gardeners. Therefore specialized shops which are engaged in sale of seeds and garden stock bring to your attention set of various means for fight against these insects: "Anteater", "Summer resident", Trinol, "Thunder", Muratsid. The listed medicines will help you to get rid of ants quickly. Before their use it is necessary to study attentively the instruction and to strictly follow its recommendations.
Unfortunately, use of chemicals and poisons will save you from annoying insects only temporarily. There is high probability of the fact that only part of ants will get poisoned with poison, and the others will continue to breed actively.
Ways of fight against ants
Ants categorically do not transfer pungent smells of parsley, bay leaf, mustard, tansy, anise and tops of vegetable of tomatoes. Stalks and leaves listed plants need to be spread out on ant paths or to tie with them trunks of trees (as if plait). Between beds seed valerian and mint. Insects, having felt strong aroma, will hurry to retire on other place of residence. Strew ant hillocks and paths with baking soda or process places of congestion of the insects the lime crushed by wood bark and ashes taken in equal proportions. For destruction of ants water their lodges with saturated solution of boric acid with granulated sugar (four tablespoons of granulated sugar on glass of solution of boric acid). Mix dried up and properly the crushed marjoram grass with sulfur in proportion 1:2. It is abundant strew with the prepared structure of the slot of ants or dig over the earth with mix. Lodges of insects water, mixed with kerosene (ten tablespoons of kerosene on ten liters of water). Water ant paths with vegetable oil. Special attention the following method of fight against ants deserves. Cut from strip sheepskin, tie with them escapes of raspberry at distance of fifteen centimeters from soil level. Consider that strips have to be located wool outside. Cover them with the crude carbolic acid which smell thoroughly expels insects and saves bushes of berries from invasion of these destroyers. Ants very much love sweet therefore that to get rid of them, it is recommended to put near the habitat of insects of bottle with sugar syrup, jam or honey. Grease neck with butter. Shortly insects will remain inside. It is also possible to use the sponge, the wetted in the concentrated sugar water. But insects should be washed away constantly from it boiled water. Such ways of fight against ants require your constant attention.