How I Control Ants in the Garden

hey everybody welcome to my channel every season very early in spring when I put my plants outside they get attacked by a vids so recently when I did my pepper updates people were wondering what the bottle is that was sitting in the raised bed so today I'm going to answer that question by showing you what exactly it is and the purpose of this bottle here is to attract ants because these ants here they're like the sugar ants and they love to form a fits off of any trees or stuff that you have so they carry the aphids there and then they farm them and then the aphids would suck the SAP off of the plants and then they'll spit out this really sweet juice and then the ants would just eat that because they they just love that stuff so umm I've had a big problem with these aphids because the ants here keep carrying them all over my plant this is the Asian pear and we keep getting aphids every few days even after I squish them and then a few days later the ants carry them back and it's easy to tell kind of when you come out here because if you lift up the leaves then you see the hands start to scatter and then you look at the leaves under there there would be a fits just there attacking the leaves so the method that I use here is a water bottle and then I I filled it up with borax honey and sugar and then a little bit of water just shake it up and I left it underneath you know the spot where the hands can get to and I cut a tiny hole there and then they can get in and and take up the trap okay and then they'll just die after eating that so that's how I control it so today I'm gonna show you how exactly I make it it's very very simple and all you need is the borax sugar and honey and a little bit of water alright guys what you're gonna need is a bottle of water here just an empty container and then you're going to need some borax and I got this phone Walmart some sugar any type of sugar you would like to use and some honey this is really old honey that kind of like coagulated and couldn't become liquid to pour out so I have to heat it up in the microwave to get it to be like this so the bottle is all messed up so anyway what you need to do first is get some borax I don't have the exact measurement but I usually go with like 1 spoon of of this just like a big nice spoon of it and you want to put that in there and I'll just do it a little ahead of time because the container head though the opening is very small you don't want to spill anywhere okay so that's how much I usually use it's about a full spoon of that usually and then you want to pour a bunch of sugar in here the more you get the better because ants love sugar so we're just going to pour some in yeah plenty of sugar laughter lots of sugar and then I'm gonna pour a little this oh honey in here it's kind of liquidy okay there so that should be enough and then we're going to close it up and mix and just mix it all up and just add a little bit more water you want it a little you want it to be like a little bit crystals so that the ants can carry you back to the their home yeah you can have it all liquid I do it both way and the liquid kind killed them immediately and a granular kind they can carry it back to the nest and then destroy the rest okay we're pretty much done now and it should look like a paste you can have it a little bit drier if you like so when it's drier it's sort of like crystallized particle and the ants can actually take those particle and carry it back to the nest and then it'll destroy the rest but if you make it really liquidy then they'll just drink it right then and then they'll just die right there let's so next you need to cut a small opening to allow them to get in so let's take this outside I'll show you okay we'll just need to cut a small opening anywhere I usually do it around right here it doesn't have to be very big just enough for them to get in and you don't want anything else to get in here like if you have pets and stuff and this would not be good for them so it's the smaller opening just enough for them to get in and then you put it under spot where you see most of those ants hanging out okay so here's my other one that I placed and it actually got rid of it I know ants as you see if I pick up the bottle you can actually see some in there it's either they're dead in there so this area used to have a lot of ants and then after I placed the bottle there there pretty much almost gone you really don't see them anymore so it actually works really well and then there as well that's where it plays the other one and this area also has a lot of those ants and they're basically just disappearing slowly so that's a good sign okay and here I see a bunch of these black ants so I'm going to put this bottle right here so you want the opening facing up so that it doesn't spill out kind of like that so there's the opening right there see these there's ants around so eventually they'll make their way over here so just leave it there I mean it's a bottle so the rain doesn't affect it because the opening is pretty small so it's very unlikely that raindrop would get in but um that's usually how I do it so let's go back and take a look at our other ones that we started in the beginning all right so here's the the one that we saw earlier that has a ton of ants there and a lot of them died in there and some of them just ran off and they never came back so this this tree here was infested with aphids and it's all because of those black ants but now they're no longer around so um just make a few of those they're very easy and just put them around your garden where you see a bunch of ants and it slowly you will see them start to disappear all right guys it has been three hours since we placed a trap here and look at that there's a lot of action going on there the answer going in there and even debate and more of them are coming so as you can see it's it's a pretty effective method to control them um it may not get rid of all of the ants but it was sure to bring the number down so well try it out I think this method works really great and I've been trying it all season and I really like the result of this anyway guys thank you so much for watching please like comment and subscribe

Channel: Khang Starr

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Length: 9min 8sec (548 seconds)

Published: Tue May 22 2018