Five or six years ago, coming to the country, I began to notice her more and more small and large anthills. In the spring I did not attach any special significance: creep and crawl, sometimes dragged to his small house small caterpillars and other pests, so that I, as a gardener, it is even on hand. However, when little by little I began to notice a growing number of aphids on the bush currants and raspberries, opinion about their "new neighbors" has changed dramatically for the worse.
unpleasant neighborhood
The last straw was that I began to surprise the ants directly because of their "lunch" my currant. Firmly decided to get rid of pesky semi-aides-sex pests, I turned to neighbors for advice.
Natured Gal recommended neighbor aunt, void sumnyashesya, display poor creatures by means of special means, but corroding their hard-earned eight hundred chemistry I did not want to, and, as a humanist, I decided to look more forgiving methods.
fish head
Familiar fisherman and part-time summer resident-advised to put on the head of an ant-hill of smoked herring, saying that the ants are afraid of strong smells and leave your colony almost immediately. Herring I have not found, but found a great smoked bream, whose head I perched on the largest of the ant hills. But it took a couple of days, and WHO (ie ant) was still there, and ants scurried briskly on the fish's head, showing no apparent disgust.
How to rid your land of ants
The experience of ancestors
Frustrated by the failure, I moved on to other suburban business. One of these was the analysis of rubbish in the attic, where I found a decrepit newspaper eight years ago, among other waste paper for Gardeners (name, unfortunately, can not remember), which describes the three new way for me to deal with the humane ants. No chemicals are not needed for this: needed only water, shade and a shovel.
Shadow
As far as I know, for the maturation of "dolls" ants need a lot of sunlight, so if one shade a site that they chose themselves as a home, it is likely that the red (or black), the neighbors will go to look for new house. This method allowed to get rid of small ant hills, but no matter how I tried, pulling a thick cloth over the biggest of anthills, evicted formic diaspora did not want to.
Shovel
As found in the newspaper article was also suggested to "transplant" the anthill, and no matter how ridiculous it may seem that way personally I have it worked. Armed with a shovel and wearing clothes more tightly, I was able to spend on the "transplant" anthill on corner plot garden only about 20 minutes.
Water
This effective method was not on getting rid of the ants, but rather to protect their landing.
In order to protect young seedlings from "freshly transplanted" neighbors all in the same corner of the garden, I used a very simple method: cut the car tire along its shallow dig in the ground and fill water. The result was a kind of a circular trench around the trees, through which the insects move just could not.
So here's a humane manner and ended our ants redistribution of territories.
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