Borax mixed with grape jelly works very well. I think I used 1 teaspoon of borax to 5 teaspoons of jelly. I then put the mixture in several pop bottle caps and put those near the ant colony and within a week the ants disappeared.
What's funny is the ant colony at my house was congregating around my leaky water pipe in the garden! We had to dig up the ground to get to the water pipe that was leaking and the colony that was under there was incredibly huge. So these ants love the water. Not to mention living in my potted plants. Back to the drawing board
I have a persistent problem with harvester ants , what kind of bait can i use on them? I tried cornmeal ,pecans crushed mixed with borax and they just haul it off and not into the nest.
I just spent an hour scouring the internet for anything substantive to backup his claim that Borax is harmful to plants and could find nothing. Boron is an essential element to plant growth and borax is regularly added to both hydroponic and Aquaponics systems to ensure availability.
I just spent 2 minutes: npic.orst.edu/factsheets/boricgen.html It's a question of how much - like with many chemical compounds. Trace amounts can be good, if not essential for some plants; too much can harm them
@@maritimegardening4887 "However, too much boron can be toxic to plants affecting their growth. Citrus, stone fruits, and nut trees are most sensitive to boron." falls far short of the meaning of "substantive" Greg.
@@trollforge what you fail to realize is the general public are stupid and would most likely dump the acid All over their lawn and thus becoming very toxic.
I’m actually curious what is classified as an ant problem… I recently put in pavers, 20” pavers with polyseewep in between & the ants went right through the poly sweep CREATING A HOLE in the polyseeep on the 2nd day it was installed… (still a little wet in some spots i THINK that’s how) but I also noticed when lifting some pavers before the poly sweep was installed that there were these bubbles of dirt on the pavers (there is 6” of rock & crushed limestone between pavers & dirt) so the only thing I can think of that could have created that was the ants… I don’t mind ants.. but I’m wondering if this will cause a problem in the future….?
Thank you kindly. I was fine with ants ... til a giant colony erupted (literally) out of my lone rhubarb plant ... they ate the root and built a mount half again as high as the planter it was in. You've given me hope of winning the war.
What if you squirt the diatomaceous earth in the nest? This is in my house not garden though and I think they may be in the walls gonna take me day off to look for the nest outside first and go from there.
@@maritimegardening4887 ok I've seen ant UA-camrs use a 10 gallon tank and make it a home to get ants out of Thier walls and stuff so you know the odds of this working and if so where can I get good accurate info I do have an empty 10 gallon. Reason I ask is cause landlord wants to chem bomb the apts but I have fish and stuff so I can't. 😢😢😢 So if I can find a way to inexpensively move them or catch them would be cool. I know where they are coming in at though. If that helps me at all lol.
Thank you , I have a real problem! I noticed while using a hand tiller we had ants, Rollie Pollies and I planted my vegetables, I sowed some green bean seeds and those little suckers ate them ! Then I noticed around the garden beds , in between the pavers little piles of dirt/sand with holes , as I looked closer I noticed ants ! Ther are everywhere! Like I mean it’s possible to have thousands of them ! I’m so upset I can’t control it . I used cinnamon, I made a borox mix but it’s been raining so much in Oregon this year it’s almost impossible the cinnamon or borax with help . I don’t know what else to do without using chemicals or ripping out all my vegetables that I planted , peppers , cucumbers, zucchini, herbs , green beans (what actually made it since they ate half of my green beans )
It's very unlikely that they ate your bean seeds - that's just not what ants eat. Just replant your beans. As Robert and I discussed in the full podcast, ants, with the exception of their tendency to protect aphids, are beneficial in the garden 99% of the time. The only reason to need to kill them is if they've made a huge nest in the middle of your garden, or if you have fire ants (nasty stinging ants). Regardless, if you still want them gone, stay with your borax/sugar mix, find ways to keep the rain off it (I have a couple vids where I show tricks for doing that).
@@samii8694 Bruh, so you want a anthill right in front of your door? And won’t even think about destroying it? Especially when it’s a invasive species?! Okay, suit yourself!
I have found a few carpenter ants in my house and discovered that our woodline next to the house has 5 different colonies within 50 yards of the house. I mixed 2 cups of sugar with 1 cup of borax along with 2 tablespoons of honey and poured it into the holes of the ant colonies home. I did this two weeks ago and I still have massive amounts of carpenter ants in the same dirt mounds. I thought maybe I could dig up the colony while my wife sprays something like Dominion 2L which has imidacloprid in the colony holes. Any suggestions?
I don't know if pouring it on the nest works - you just need the sugar and the borax, as we said in the video, and set it up where you see them in some way that it can't get rained on. Place multiple baiting stations around the area where you see them. That said - if it's not working and you need them gone, hit them with everything you got man :)
@@Jamieson414 100's of feet deep, that's so discouraging. I've got them all over my backyard, can't walk out there without socks and shoes or my feet get bit up, it's so awful.
@@JakesArchive No nothing has changed I still have the ants. I was thinking maybe I can get rid of them by covering the ground with cardboard, then spread free wood chips all over the cardboard, I think it's worth a try.
@@maritimegardening4887 A six-minute video filled with five minutes of fluff. Get a clue: people searching for ways to kill pests like ants are likely very stressed and currently dealing with an in-home invasion. Nobody wants to hear your drivel about how ants are good for gardening. People don't click on "Best Way to Kill an Ant Colony" to hear about how they fit into the ecosystem and how they're doing more good than harm. Know your audience. If you don't want comments like this, preface the title with "Gardening:". Then people will likely be more patient.
I like diatomaceous earth. I get good results with it, if I really lay it around thick. I use a powder duster in the house. Another way to deal with carpenter ants in particular, that’s worked for me: I make sure that once I deal with a colony I make sure there is tempting habitat for new arrivals, AWAY from the area I’m trying to protect from ants. They don’t eat wood, they excavate wood to live in.
I have small black ants, a few carpenter ants and lots of flying ants just came out from behind my furnace! What do I do? How do I murder the ant infestation inside of my house!?
I'm in NC and the ants are HORRIBLE this year! The worst I've ever seen. I usually have the small ants to deal with in the early spring, but this year I have the carpenter ants too. I discovered those had invaded my little "she" shed. They were everywhere! I had my exterminator, who only comes for my annually treatment for termite checks and other ant and bug stuff to treat around my shed area. Never much going on till this year! Today I discovered another nest of them at husbands shed where his yard equipment etc. is kept. I need to make some Borax food for these suckers! Thanks!
Interesting that you say the ants are the worst this year. Same here in San Diego - 3000 miles away. I think it's because this is the hottest summer since I moved here in 1981. Is it hotter than normal in NC too? I'm from VA and my cousins live in Gastonia.
@@loriboyters4171 Hi Lori, I think it is a little hotter than normal, yes. We've lived here 20 years. The ants, spiders and yellow jackets are real bad this year. We live near a woodsy area. The good thing this year is the nice rains we have had. Normally the grass is dry and crispy this time of year. We live close to, (about an hour drive), from the Blue Ridge mountains. It's beautiful in our area and would never move back north. I hope you are not near all the fires out there. Is the drought affecting the entire state? I really feel for you and the people of CA. Take good care and stay safe🙏🙏
Oh my ants can’t be fooled! They are smart little buggers! Borax and sugar haha nope, didn’t work here. I tried several different variables. Soaked it in a waffle, put a container with holes out. None of them worked. I bought some ant baits, two different kinds. No activity from either in the first week. I later noticed the ants crawling in and out of the Terro liquid ant bait, so that one seems to be the start of their slow death😁
Yes, sounds like my ants, they have a oak tree as a colony and it's a huge colony, and you right, once they know it's poison they laugh at you, you can actually hear there New York accent if you get low enough 😂 One day I thought I got them, I was eating a burger and a piece of meat fell on the ground, and within 5 mins tops, there were millions of ants taking it away, So I poisoned a can of chicken salad with boric acid and they went to town on it, I figured alright I got em, Seems the last few days they took it personal because I see them in the house now, they never came in my house in 2 years ,and it's like they said ok tuff guy now yous gonna pay 30% to the big guy from now on capiche, 😂 So, I'm hiring big guns now, and I've heard of torro but in the concentrate you mix like the professionals, I haven't seen any baits, unless it's a different brand... But most definitely ants are way more intelligent than we give credit...
Whenever you recommend borax; please explain to people how to use borax against ants without harming other insects. Borax has come on a poison list in the EU and has been removed from stores as bees, butterflies and other insects became innocent victims in the war against ants.
@@TheGamingCaveYT Dude, just clean your room and stop leaving food everywhere. My room was in bad need of a cleaning (shamefully I had soda and sports drink bottles laying around as well as some food trash) and the ants invading were quite the impetus for me to clean up my room and only bring in water from then on. No food. No food wrappers. Eat in the kitchen or the dining room. Ideally those are going to be cleaner or at least far away enough that ants won't find it. -Diatomaceous earth is the best way to kill the workers outside of harmful chemical pesticides and generally get the message to the colony that coming in there is deadly. Don't be overzealous as it is like dust and can make you cough for a while. -Use a poison like borax to kill the queen/colony. -White vinegar will wash away the chem/pheromone trails they're following back to your room. -Just keep it clean: if there's nothing in there for them to eat, they won't be coming back there. That includes emptying trash cans regularly.
@@encycl07pedia- Good tips, but really: old food wrappers? soda/etc bottles? ... - my room(s) are always a TornadoMess, but I NEVER leave food stuff around, I mean come on now... !? ... anybody over 12 knows that much... ? (... that said, I used to eat chips/etc in bed while watching tv, and the crumbs would inevitably fall along the wall-side of it, beyond the reach of the vacuum head (carpeted room, too) I later discovered; never once saw any critters in 4 yrs, UNTIL I finally moved out; then, oh boy, tiny beetles, ants, etc had infested under that edge of the carpet, and my landlord was NOT amused... D'oh! ... never ate in bed since (nor watch tv/etc there, and now I sleep better).)
@@maritimegardening4887 good enough for me 😁 Thanks for all your videos and podcasts. I get lots out of them. Even if it's only watching you work while I relax! 😂 Seriously though, I learn lots from you
Usually if ants invade a space then the nest is close by. There's no need to kill them--they are, after all a vital part of the ecosystem--so what I do is to pour white vinegar over the nest area. I usually repeat the application 2-3 times every half hour or so. Very quickly the ants will move the nest and the problem is gone.
Being woken up in the middle of the night with an ant in your bed crawling along your leg or across your face will definitely make you not mind exterminating them and besides carpenter ants will destroy the very home you're living in.
Borax mixed with grape jelly works very well. I think I used 1 teaspoon of borax to 5 teaspoons of jelly. I then put the mixture in several pop bottle caps and put those near the ant colony and within a week the ants disappeared.
Good system!
Wow maybe I'll try that. The cinnamon method definitely doesn't work I just went through three bottles and they just go right through it.
the jelly powder or made into actual jelly?
@@hookrug9832 I used regular grape jelly. I suppose any fruit jelly will work. I just had grape so that’s what I used.
TLDR: Borax + Sugar 50/50 with a little water to bind it together. Ants bring it back to the colony and they all die.
You must be awesome at parties.
@@maritimegardening4887 Parties are a waste of time. I just have someone call me the next day and tell me what happened.
Thanks for the TLDR. Such a boring and badly edited video.
thank you 🙏
@@firstnamelastname2552lol
What's funny is the ant colony at my house was congregating around my leaky water pipe in the garden! We had to dig up the ground to get to the water pipe that was leaking and the colony that was under there was incredibly huge. So these ants love the water. Not to mention living in my potted plants. Back to the drawing board
Is Borax safe or toxic on grass?
I've been using the borax sugar trick for about 15 years successfully...it works great. You can also add a pack of yeast.
And im in stupid europe where borax is banned. Ffs...
What does the yeast do?
I have a persistent problem with harvester ants , what kind of bait can i use on them? I tried cornmeal ,pecans crushed mixed with borax and they just haul it off and not into the nest.
I just spent an hour scouring the internet for anything substantive to backup his claim that Borax is harmful to plants and could find nothing. Boron is an essential element to plant growth and borax is regularly added to both hydroponic and Aquaponics systems to ensure availability.
I just spent 2 minutes: npic.orst.edu/factsheets/boricgen.html
It's a question of how much - like with many chemical compounds. Trace amounts can be good, if not essential for some plants; too much can harm them
@@maritimegardening4887 "However, too much boron can be toxic to plants affecting their growth. Citrus, stone fruits, and nut trees are most sensitive to boron." falls far short of the meaning of "substantive" Greg.
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@@trollforge what you fail to realize is the general public are stupid and would most likely dump the acid All over their lawn and thus becoming very toxic.
@@dh4094 That is a very sad statement of our society...
I’m actually curious what is classified as an ant problem… I recently put in pavers, 20” pavers with polyseewep in between & the ants went right through the poly sweep CREATING A HOLE in the polyseeep on the 2nd day it was installed… (still a little wet in some spots i THINK that’s how) but I also noticed when lifting some pavers before the poly sweep was installed that there were these bubbles of dirt on the pavers (there is 6” of rock & crushed limestone between pavers & dirt) so the only thing I can think of that could have created that was the ants… I don’t mind ants.. but I’m wondering if this will cause a problem in the future….?
Thank you kindly. I was fine with ants ... til a giant colony erupted (literally) out of my lone rhubarb plant ... they ate the root and built a mount half again as high as the planter it was in. You've given me hope of winning the war.
lol. my Safeway store said they can't keep it in stock so they never have it. I had to drive 10 miles away to find it at a home depot.
Same. I had to go to four different stores before I finally found some.
What if you squirt the diatomaceous earth in the nest? This is in my house not garden though and I think they may be in the walls gonna take me day off to look for the nest outside first and go from there.
I can't see that working. It only kills the insects that it touches. The vest majority of the colony would be unaffected.
@@maritimegardening4887 ok I've seen ant UA-camrs use a 10 gallon tank and make it a home to get ants out of Thier walls and stuff so you know the odds of this working and if so where can I get good accurate info I do have an empty 10 gallon. Reason I ask is cause landlord wants to chem bomb the apts but I have fish and stuff so I can't. 😢😢😢 So if I can find a way to inexpensively move them or catch them would be cool. I know where they are coming in at though. If that helps me at all lol.
No animals were harmed in the making of this video
Thank you , I have a real problem! I noticed while using a hand tiller we had ants, Rollie Pollies and I planted my vegetables, I sowed some green bean seeds and those little suckers ate them ! Then I noticed around the garden beds , in between the pavers little piles of dirt/sand with holes , as I looked closer I noticed ants ! Ther are everywhere! Like I mean it’s possible to have thousands of them ! I’m so upset I can’t control it . I used cinnamon, I made a borox mix but it’s been raining so much in Oregon this year it’s almost impossible the cinnamon or borax with help . I don’t know what else to do without using chemicals or ripping out all my vegetables that I planted , peppers , cucumbers, zucchini, herbs , green beans (what actually made it since they ate half of my green beans )
It's very unlikely that they ate your bean seeds - that's just not what ants eat. Just replant your beans. As Robert and I discussed in the full podcast, ants, with the exception of their tendency to protect aphids, are beneficial in the garden 99% of the time. The only reason to need to kill them is if they've made a huge nest in the middle of your garden, or if you have fire ants (nasty stinging ants). Regardless, if you still want them gone, stay with your borax/sugar mix, find ways to keep the rain off it (I have a couple vids where I show tricks for doing that).
Great Information
I usually put boiling water on them. It always work.
I did that & it killed my grass
Thank u!!!!!
That might pull my plant roots…
Are you sick? Why would you do that! 🤮
@@samii8694 Bruh, so you want a anthill right in front of your door? And won’t even think about destroying it? Especially when it’s a invasive species?! Okay, suit yourself!
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It was really fun seeing AC pour boiling water over the red ant colony.
@@encycl07pedia- I was about to type the exact same thing
I have found a few carpenter ants in my house and discovered that our woodline next to the house has 5 different colonies within 50 yards of the house. I mixed 2 cups of sugar with 1 cup of borax along with 2 tablespoons of honey and poured it into the holes of the ant colonies home. I did this two weeks ago and I still have massive amounts of carpenter ants in the same dirt mounds. I thought maybe I could dig up the colony while my wife sprays something like Dominion 2L which has imidacloprid in the colony holes. Any suggestions?
I don't know if pouring it on the nest works - you just need the sugar and the borax, as we said in the video, and set it up where you see them in some way that it can't get rained on. Place multiple baiting stations around the area where you see them. That said - if it's not working and you need them gone, hit them with everything you got man :)
Digging it up is hard as ant nests can go up to 100s of feet deep in a couple years
@@Jamieson414 100's of feet deep, that's so discouraging. I've got them all over my backyard, can't walk out there without socks and shoes or my feet get bit up, it's so awful.
@@r4ng3rownz8 any fix? Same here
@@JakesArchive No nothing has changed I still have the ants. I was thinking maybe I can get rid of them by covering the ground with cardboard, then spread free wood chips all over the cardboard, I think it's worth a try.
Get to the f***ing point!!!!!
Mix sugar and borax 50/50 for everyone else who don’t like wasting time. Good grief
it's a 6 minute video - get an attention span
@@maritimegardening4887 A six-minute video filled with five minutes of fluff. Get a clue: people searching for ways to kill pests like ants are likely very stressed and currently dealing with an in-home invasion. Nobody wants to hear your drivel about how ants are good for gardening. People don't click on "Best Way to Kill an Ant Colony" to hear about how they fit into the ecosystem and how they're doing more good than harm.
Know your audience. If you don't want comments like this, preface the title with "Gardening:". Then people will likely be more patient.
Thanks!!
I like diatomaceous earth. I get good results with it, if I really lay it around thick. I use a powder duster in the house. Another way to deal with carpenter ants in particular, that’s worked for me: I make sure that once I deal with a colony I make sure there is tempting habitat for new arrivals, AWAY from the area I’m trying to protect from ants. They don’t eat wood, they excavate wood to live in.
I like DE too for indoor areas but the problem with it is if it gets wet at all it’s basically useless
I have small black ants, a few carpenter ants and lots of flying ants just came out from behind my furnace! What do I do? How do I murder the ant infestation inside of my house!?
same approach - use the borax + sugar
How can I destroy the colony of ants in one acre yard. They are millions of ants.Please help me, I have a dogs and I don’t won’t any chemical
Wrong calculation. There are trillions
I'm in NC and the ants are HORRIBLE this year! The worst I've ever seen. I usually have the small ants to deal with in the early spring, but this year I have the carpenter ants too. I discovered those had invaded my little "she" shed. They were everywhere! I had my exterminator, who only comes for my annually treatment for termite checks and other ant and bug stuff to treat around my shed area. Never much going on till this year! Today I discovered another nest of them at husbands shed where his yard equipment etc. is kept. I need to make some Borax food for these suckers! Thanks!
Interesting that you say the ants are the worst this year. Same here in San Diego - 3000 miles away. I think it's because this is the hottest summer since I moved here in 1981. Is it hotter than normal in NC too? I'm from VA and my cousins live in Gastonia.
@@loriboyters4171 Hi Lori, I think it is a little hotter than normal, yes. We've lived here 20 years. The ants, spiders and yellow jackets are real bad this year. We live near a woodsy area. The good thing this year is the nice rains we have had. Normally the grass is dry and crispy this time of year. We live close to, (about an hour drive), from the Blue Ridge mountains. It's beautiful in our area and would never move back north. I hope you are not near all the fires out there. Is the drought affecting the entire state? I really feel for you and the people of CA. Take good care and stay safe🙏🙏
What about a colony with multiple queens and is self populating?
It works better with a small piece of waffle added to the mix The adult ants take bits
back to feed the colony
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Thank you for the advice. Can you use 99% boric acid instead? Also do mix it 50/ 50 or 1 to 5 ( sugar) and is it necessary to add water or not?
Robert said 50/50 but lots of things I've read have suggested a 1:5 or 1:4 ratio - so try that for sure and see what works
Very informative video best way to kill an ant colony, thanks for sharing to us such amazing tip for gardening work
My ants like chicken and borax!
Oh my ants can’t be fooled! They are smart little buggers! Borax and sugar haha nope, didn’t work here. I tried several different variables. Soaked it in a waffle, put a container with holes out. None of them worked. I bought some ant baits, two different kinds. No activity from either in the first week. I later noticed the ants crawling in and out of the Terro liquid ant bait, so that one seems to be the start of their slow death😁
Oh no!
Terror liquid bait is the best
Yes, sounds like my ants, they have a oak tree as a colony and it's a huge colony, and you right, once they know it's poison they laugh at you, you can actually hear there New York accent if you get low enough 😂
One day I thought I got them, I was eating a burger and a piece of meat fell on the ground, and within 5 mins tops, there were millions of ants taking it away,
So I poisoned a can of chicken salad with boric acid and they went to town on it, I figured alright I got em,
Seems the last few days they took it personal because I see them in the house now, they never came in my house in 2 years ,and it's like they said ok tuff guy now yous gonna pay 30% to the big guy from now on capiche, 😂
So, I'm hiring big guns now, and I've heard of torro but in the concentrate you mix like the professionals, I haven't seen any baits, unless it's a different brand...
But most definitely ants are way more intelligent than we give credit...
your ants graduate from elon musk harvard university
Have you tried a mix of confectioners sugar and baking soda as a powder mix (no water)?
Hot water poured down their hole doesn’t work?
Whenever you recommend borax; please explain to people how to use borax against ants without harming other insects. Borax has come on a poison list in the EU and has been removed from stores as bees, butterflies and other insects became innocent victims in the war against ants.
We spent a good time in the podcast explaining why in most cases you should see the ants as beneficial.
Couldn't you dig into your lawn below the grass roots and put the mixture there so the ants can get it but other insects won't be harmed?
Shut up
@@darylyumol7081 How did ants do that?
@@encycl07pedia- theirs a type of ant that is attracted to electricity and will build their colony’s in peoples computers
Hey your right you can get an ant colony to move. Mine were in the garden and have moved into my house. ..... off to buy some borax😃
A answer you haven't a problem just remember there's free housing inside their ears
What about boiling water
We covered that during the podcast - doesn't kill the nest, just kills some of the ants
@@maritimegardening4887 I think I've made them angry
@@maritimegardening4887 It will kill the colony if you pour it over the colony and the queen.
Get over my negative feelings for ants? Damn people.
If I do the borax mix in my shrub and flower garden, will it kill my plants ?
If it doesn't kill my veg it should not kill your flowers, etc.
I love ants. Unfortunately, they love my cowpeas. And unfortunately for the, I love my cowpeas more than I love them.
Can’t seem to find any borax in Dutch stores
Maybe look for the dutch version of sodium borate? "borax" - a brand name - is sodium borate.
You can’t buy it in the EU as it’s classified as hazardous.
Laboratoriumdiscounter.nl
Move
Try sevin dust on ant mounds!?
Or flamethrower 🔥😂ikr!👌
They won't stop coming into my house and it's every year :/
I have a ants nest around my pond and I've been unknowingly taking them into my home.
@@patbosher8963 idk were the nest is but if you leave a can on the ground in my room for a little bit you will get to see them
@@TheGamingCaveYT Dude, just clean your room and stop leaving food everywhere. My room was in bad need of a cleaning (shamefully I had soda and sports drink bottles laying around as well as some food trash) and the ants invading were quite the impetus for me to clean up my room and only bring in water from then on. No food. No food wrappers. Eat in the kitchen or the dining room. Ideally those are going to be cleaner or at least far away enough that ants won't find it.
-Diatomaceous earth is the best way to kill the workers outside of harmful chemical pesticides and generally get the message to the colony that coming in there is deadly. Don't be overzealous as it is like dust and can make you cough for a while.
-Use a poison like borax to kill the queen/colony.
-White vinegar will wash away the chem/pheromone trails they're following back to your room.
-Just keep it clean: if there's nothing in there for them to eat, they won't be coming back there. That includes emptying trash cans regularly.
@@encycl07pedia- Good tips, but really: old food wrappers? soda/etc bottles? ... - my room(s) are always a TornadoMess, but I NEVER leave food stuff around, I mean come on now... !? ... anybody over 12 knows that much... ?
(... that said, I used to eat chips/etc in bed while watching tv, and the crumbs would inevitably fall along the wall-side of it, beyond the reach of the vacuum head (carpeted room, too) I later discovered; never once saw any critters in 4 yrs, UNTIL I finally moved out; then, oh boy, tiny beetles, ants, etc had infested under that edge of the carpet, and my landlord was NOT amused... D'oh! ... never ate in bed since (nor watch tv/etc there, and now I sleep better).)
Will Borax hurt Dogs and Cats? Thanks
Too much borax can hurt anything. Just keep them away from it.
Ants destroyed plants
Diatomaceous, borax and sugar mix?
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diatomaceous earth is a complete waste of time and money on a nest.
Ima go full monke mode on these ants
People can eat it with no issues. Just saying
eat what?
Malathion at high dose always works old school insecticides work best
Ant infestation in my goat and chicken coop ???
The chickens should take care of that if you let them ria.
Sounds awful!
I use boiling water, more than once
Robert discusses that method later in the video. He explains that it's very unlikely to kill the colony - but may cause it to move.
@@maritimegardening4887 good enough for me 😁
Thanks for all your videos and podcasts. I get lots out of them. Even if it's only watching you work while I relax! 😂 Seriously though, I learn lots from you
Yay ‼️‼️
Usually if ants invade a space then the nest is close by. There's no need to kill them--they are, after all a vital part of the ecosystem--so what I do is to pour white vinegar over the nest area. I usually repeat the application 2-3 times every half hour or so. Very quickly the ants will move the nest and the problem is gone.
I just use gasoline...problem solved, grass will rebound
No one in their right mind would pour gasoline on their garden soil
Get to the point
It's a 6 minute video - how about you get an attention span?
ants nurse aphids for the sugar. so bated sweets good to deture this
Slow down your speaking. A longer video is seemingly more important.
Goddamn ants
I pour gas.
Who’s liking these? And why is everyone alright with it, you should only do it if it’s fire ant or something that has an extremely painful bite
I think if you watched a little more of my content - or even the whole podcast you'd find that I completely agree with you
Maritime Gardening I found this while searching to be annoyed so I don’t really want to watch more
Being woken up in the middle of the night with an ant in your bed crawling along your leg or across your face will definitely make you not mind exterminating them and besides carpenter ants will destroy the very home you're living in.