key takeaways
- Natural methods can interrupt or repeat ants to prevent ants from the installation of a colony and anthyl.
- Vinegar, citrus, essential oil, or diocellus Earth requires frequent revaluation to reduce anthyl.
- You can boil water or add some dishwashing liquid to eliminate ant hills.
Ants are hardworking creatures and they can build an anthyl overnight. Most ants are beneficial because they eat unwanted insects, but a yard filled with anthyl can be ugly. Before you start your abolition campaign, it is important to know which type of ant has attacked because some of them, such as fire ants, can attack.
Here your yard has five natural solutions to get rid of Anthill.
Know your ants
there are Hundreds of ant species And most humans do not sting or cause significant damage to gardens and homes. However, there are exceptions and you should take additional precautions and measures to get rid of these species.
- fire ants: Imported from Argentina or Brazil, Red and black fire ants There are habits of aggressive pricking. The mounds are dome -shaped and can reach 1 foot or more.
- Carpenter Ants: Big, Black carpenter ants Chew tunnels in untreated wooden window frames, doors, fences and external furniture to increase your youth.
Want more gardening tips? Sign up for our free Horticulture newspaper For our best growing tips, troubleshooting hack, and more!
Sprinkle the dietomiasius earth around the anthill
diatomaceous earth There is a natural dust that is in a fine, white powder made of fossil marine organisms. There are subtle sharp edges in the Earth that physically damage the exoskeleton of an ant, causing them to occur. Dehydration and die,
To use, sprinkle a dry, thin layer around the anthyl. Workers will cross the earth and eventually die. The queen will die due to lack of food and Anthil will collapse. After the rain, again, irrigation from sprinkler, and lawn grass.
Use borax bait
Mix uniform amount Laundry borax and white or brown sugarSprinkle the mixture around the anthyl. Chinese attracts ants and is fatal to borax insects. Once the workers and the queen die, Anthil will disappear.
alert
This method should not be used around children or pets; If a large amount of consumed is consumed, the fodder can be disturbed by gastrointestinal.
Confuse ants with scents
Cinnamon, keene black pepper, or sprayed on the ground can disturb strong Scoff grounds and can interrupt the fragrance trails. You can also use water solution and a few drops of peppermint, citrus, or clove essential oil. Acids in vinegar and lemon juice will also disrupt ant trails by breaking pheromones that they follow to return to the anthyl, but spraying with vinegar or lemon juice can also kill your lawn grass and other plants.
Spray or spray with ant paths to confuse their progress in the construction of anthil and slow down their progress. Using the fragrance disruptive will not kill ants, they will simply slow them down and possibly redirect ants to another place. All natural disruption needs to be re -applied after rain or irrigation as this odor quickly fades.
Treat anthill with boiling water
To eliminate a mound, try to put two to three gallons boiling water into a fire ant mound. Do this at night when most ants have returned to the nest. Repeat the next day if you still see activity. Boiling water will also kill any surrounding vegetation, but it is worth the cost to eliminate the mound.
alert
When working around the mound of fire ant, wears gloves, long sleeves, long pants and close-leg shoes. Take extra care when the boiling water is taken to the fire ant mound and make sure there are no children or pets nearby. If you have been bitten before and had a serious response or if the fire ant mounds are several, consider hiring a professional insect extraneter to get rid of them.
Anthill flooded with soap water
For less aggressive ants, use a gallon water and 1/4 cup dishwashing liquid solution for flooding the anthill. This will usually kill ants. Treat in the evening when most ants are in anthyl. Repeat if the mound building activity resumes in a few days.
