Organic Remedies for Crawling Leaf Cutters | Ants 🐜
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2022
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I'm in Honduras I use a old bold tire cut in half place around the tree full with water to form an ant barrier against leaf cutting ants. Along with that I use limestone powder to paint white around larger trees. Hope this helps. I found yet another easier way. Wrap very loosely several layers of flimsy plastic around the tree trunk and on top of the wrap place a plastic tie wrap tight so it doesn't move. This works I have placed on my avocados, limes,oranges and pomegranate trees, problem solved.
Perfect case of " The problem is the Solution"
Good tip
Well done. Always better to keep nature free of poisons. There is always a better way..
Love your content!
Awesome tips! thank you very much, I learn from you so much and you show it to be very simple to accomplish.
Thanks. The best is actually tying a piece of sheep wool in a ring around the trunk.
Good video, thanks. We have tons of these leaf cutter ants. Our property is near a swampy river bottom. The ants have made nests on the high ground.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve just recently been invaded by these cutter leaf ants and they are a force to recon with. I’m in a rural area in s. E. Texas and don’t like chemicals or how much they cost, been fighting them with gas and backbone
I will try the boiling water.I have double sticky tape on the trees and it works, however, Not only are the ants a pest, but their collapsed nests can be dangerous! The past few days we had a lot of rain, enough that a big leaf-cutter nest collapsed and left a huge hole on the ground, like 3 by 2 feet wide! enough to hurt a person if falling on it - now we have to fill up the hole and also get rid of the super annoying ants. I never even imagined this could happen 🤨
I cut the bottom out of a five-gallon (white) bucket once the trees get bigger.
How often do you have to change those bottles? And any notable disadvantage of the tape on the tree trunk?
In reality the bottles weren't great. Mostly limited by how well you keep it sealed around the tree
I'd build the fire next to the mound and boil the water there to make it easier if possible. What about pouring gas into the mound and burning it?
Yes we do that. Takes a bit of wood and time but is effective and non toxic. Not keen to use gas.
Try finding the nest and sprinkle lots of sevin powder..
where are you guys located ?
In Bolivia
I also found that wrapping foil around the trunk stops them from climbing up the trunk
We will try that too. Thanks for the tip
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I've wrapped all my trees with foil, it worked for a couple of weeks, then, the leaf-cutters found out that they can easily cut through the foil and go and harvest the leaves. I found tons of foil pieces around the striped trees. They are smart!
Thanks for updating us on that. Someone I know put bottles around the base filled with sponge then out a repellent on it. It'll work for a time but I guess not permanent either. Seems the best way is to find the nest, dig till you see the eggs and pour alot of boiling water in there all without delay
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia interesting
They will be out in force at a time in the night. Now around 8pm for us. If they see that you've noticed their trail they might change their timings.
Have been wondering why all the trees are painted white haha. Thanks for the tips
Best is sheep wool wrapped around the trunk. They don't like to pass it.
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Thank you so much for the tips! We have the playlist recommended but I need to figure out how to do the recommended channels. Lol
It's not organic which I always prefer but any foaming wasp spray sprayed down entrance will kill them fast. I tried DE Diatomaceous Earth but it didn't work unfortunately.
Yep the jury is still out on the DE. We spread it around to combat NIJUA a parasitic pig flea. Seems to have worked in that instance.