How to get rid of ants in the greenhouse?

Since the school days, we remember that in nature, ants are of great benefit: they speed up the process of decomposition of organic residues, enrich the earth with humus, nitrogen, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and destroy pests. However, occupying territory in greenhouses and on beds, ants cause significant damage to plantings: spread aphids, spoil berries and fruits. In greenhouses and greenhouses, the root system of vegetables begins to suffer from them, which leads to the death of plants, so the answer to the question of how to get rid of ants in a greenhouse is of interest to most gardeners and gardeners.

Before starting the fight with the ants in the greenhouse, we'll figure out which kinds of ants are trying to grab the territory, and what benefit or harm they cause to the plants planted in the greenhouse or greenhouse.

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Types of ants living in the greenhouse

In the garden areas 3 types of ants are most common:

1. Black garden.
2. Red forest.
3. Brown meadow.

In the gardens located near the forest areas, the so-called forest ants( red) are most often encountered. In greenhouses most often black garden. These insects feed on seeds and young shoots of seedlings.

Important! Settling in a greenhouse, a greenhouse, ants do not bother building a capital high anthill, the maximum they can do is a small hill of land. This type of insects builds their nests directly on vegetable beds, laying the way, the length of which can reach several meters. During the laying, they destroy the root system of plants, which of course harms planting.

The fact that you have a greenhouse, greenhouse ants, you can observe a lot of round neat holes in the soil around which insects swarm around. If the time is not limited and does not significantly reduce their population, then in a short time the entire greenhouse will be a loosened surface with a lot of mounds.

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How useful are ants?

The fight with ants in the greenhouse should only take place after you weigh all the pluses and minuses of their presence in the greenhouse.

Benefits of the presence of ants:

• During the construction of the nests of the colony, insects loosen the surface layer of the soil. As a result, the root system of plants receives more air.
• Insects enrich the soil with nitrogen, potassium, and waste products, which improves the quality of the land.
• Ants destroy other insects, such as spider mites, and also eat the larvae of other pests.

Harm from presence of colony in greenhouses:

• Pose a threat to the health of people and animals if they hurt sting. Formic acid injected during a bite can provoke a sharp allergic reaction in some people.
• Black ants eat the sprouts of young plants and cause their death.
• Adult black ants need sugar for a full life. To extract it, insects create "herds" of aphids and spread it on plants.

Important! If, having analyzed all the pros and cons of the presence of insects in the greenhouse, you came to the conclusion that it is far from your option when ants live in the greenhouse - how to get rid of them, you will learn from the tips below. Choose the method that you will fight. The effectiveness of the methods is different, but each gardener or gardener will be able to choose the most acceptable for his greenhouse, garden, garden.

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Ants control methods in the

greenhouse To get rid of the ants in the greenhouse, you will first have to determine the way to influence the insects. All methods can be conditionally divided into categories:

1. Agrotechnical.
2. Chemical.
3. Industrial Pesticides.
4. Combined.

Agricultural Methods

First of all find the places that are "liked" by ant families. Usually, insects settle under old boards, sheets of roofing material or slate lying on the ground. Ants appear in greenhouses, at the base of which there are wooden planks.

Important! Insects like the wooden structures of greenhouses themselves and greenhouses, especially old and rotten wood is especially attractive for them. By removing wood from the greenhouse and depriving them of comfortable living conditions, you will significantly reduce their colony.

Here is an example of effective agrotechnical methods that will help quickly get rid of ants in the greenhouse:

• Digging up the soil in autumn and spring, frequent loosening of the soil in the summer months. Ants do not like anxiety and will leave your greenhouse.
• Regular sprinkling of found anthills and their moves with fly ash, not quenched with lime or baking soda, will help get rid of the ants in the greenhouse. You can also sprinkle an anthill with dry mustard, ground pepper, ammonium nitrate.
• The most common way how to get rid of ants in the greenhouse is to pour their nest with a mortar of lime: 100 g of money per bucket of water. Lime will destroy other pests, as well as their larvae. This means also neutralizes the acidity of the soil, which will favorably affect the development of plants.
• Destroy insects with odors. The recipe of our grandmothers: 2-4 slices of garlic chop and pour cold water. The resulting mixture is insisted in the bucket for 1 day. With a solution, pour an anthill.
• Ants do not like the smells of elderberry, wormwood, mint, anise, mustard, bay leaves, tomato leaves. Scatter around the anthill listed plants and this will push insects to a mass flight.
• Before planting the plant, pour all the earth with an aqueous solution of soda and linseed oil: 5 g of soda, 30 g of linseed oil per 1 liter of water. Such a composition will force insects to leave the current habitat, which means that your struggle with the ants in the greenhouse will be over.

Important! The most extreme, but effective way is good only when you are ready to spend time digging the nest of ants. To do this, find their uterus. Destroying it, you can get rid of the ants in the greenhouse for a long time.

Chemical

This group of methods includes various poisoned baits. Here is an example of some of them:

• ¼ tsp.boric acid( buy at the pharmacy), 2 tsp.sugated or fermented jam, 3-4 tsp.sugar mix with 1 glass of water. Put the bait in a shallow container so that the ants can get inside. Set the bait daily for 1 month.
• 5 grams of borax, 50 g of sugar mixed with 50 ml of water. Pour the solution in a saucer and place it in the habitat of ants. Prepared mixture of insects will deliver the uterus, and she, after eating the food, will die. Just a few days you can completely get rid of the ants in the greenhouse.

Important! Boric acid or borax can be scattered along the ant trail as well as around the nests, but the uterus with the offspring will live, and only the colony of worker ants will perish.

• 1 tsp.boric acid mixed with 100 g minced meat. Blind small balls from the mixture and spread around the ant nests. This means will destroy the ants. Use it 3-4 times per season.
• Treat the slots in the greenhouse and the heap heaps with an aqueous solution of carbofos or formalin in a 1:10 ratio. Sprinkle 2-3 times per season. This method will help fight alien insects.
• Mix the old jam with yeast. After 2 hours, put the fermented beverage into a greenhouse. Having tasted the drunken bait, the ants will stop following the young, forget about their duties and after several procedures the anthill will die.

Industrial pesticides

There are many chemical preparations for fighting such pests. The most well-known anti-ants in the greenhouse:

• Insecticide "Thunder" in granules. Remove the top layer of earth from the anthill and sprinkle the granules evenly over the surface. The amount of the drug depends on the area of ​​the anthill. Sprinkle with the ground. After 2-4 days, the greenhouse will be spared from pests.
• The "Mashenka" chalk. Universal repeller not only for ants, but also cockroaches. Along the entire perimeter of the greenhouse, draw a strip of chalk, near the ant moves move the small chalkboards.
• Liquid medicine "Anteater".Available in ampoules or vials. Dissolve 1 ml of the drug in 1 liter of water and, stirring constantly, bring the working volume to 10 liters. Dig the anthill to the egg masonry and pour the finished solution. Treat in the morning or evening hours. The agent does not affect earthworms and soil microorganisms, but contains hazardous substances for fish, so keep it away from the pond. Cooking solution should be immediately before use, as it is not subject to storage.
• Remedies for Colorado potato beetle and aphid in ampoules. The drug dilute in 1 liter of water. The resulting solution is poured into the center of the anthill and covered with a polyethylene film for a day. The "gas chamber" will destroy the entire colony to the lower tiers.

Combined

1. Put a piece of dark-colored cloth in the old container, kettle, can, pan. Abundantly sprinkle the material with sugar or moisten with a thick sugar syrup, jam. Place the dishes in the ant nest. The ant uterus and all the other ants will settle in a new sweet apartment. Then throw the ant colony away from the greenhouse or destroy it with all the tenants.
2. You can arrange a trap from an old bottle. Fill it with a syrup or jam, after the ants settle in the bottle, pour it with boiling water.
3. Another reliable modern ant-cure means in the greenhouse is the Absolute bait capsule. Thanks to attractive special ingredients, ants will not be able to pass the capsule, even if there is an alternative food. The principle of the capsule is based on the biological and behavioral characteristics of ants.

Important! Complete destruction of the family will occur in 10-14 days. You can use "Absolute" in the form of a syringe with gel, to get rid of ants in the greenhouse, apply helium points around the perimeter. The consumption rate is 25 g of preparation per 50 m2.

The oldest method of

Gardeners and truck farmers from Soviet times got rid of ants in greenhouses with mustard:

1. 60 g of dry mustard powder mix with 1 liter of hot water.
2. Insist the solution for 3 days in a tightly closed container.
3. Mix the prepared mortar with 3 liters of water.
4. Spray the plants in the greenhouse.
5. 1 tsp. Mustard dilute in 1 liter of water and spill the soil, where there are ant moves.
6. Sprinkle with dry mustard powder around the ant moves with a layer of 1 cm.

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Useful advices for

1. Ants can fight for a long time, as they quickly settle and change the nest for the uterus. Start to operate in an environmentally friendly and gentle way. If the people's means do not help, then only go to the chemical compounds.
2. Special preparations may contain substances from which other insects will die, in particular bees required for pollination.
3. Do not forget that when processing anthills with chemical solution, you endanger pets and children.
4. The crop from the greenhouse must also be environmentally friendly.

We hope that you select the most appropriate methods of struggle for you, which will save the greenhouse or greenhouse from the ants, while not harming you or your family members.