Semolina from ants: how to act and how to use?
Semolina, like pshenka, is an excellent option for an environmentally friendly pest control in the garden. Groats are not only cheaper than all kinds of chemicals, but also easy to use.It helps to get rid of insects that ruthlessly destroy plants. At the same time, it is completely safe. Given the obvious advantages of this effective tool, is it worth talking about the advisability of using it on your own plot for growing vegetables and fruits?
How does it work?
How semolina works, has not yet been fully studied. In practice, it is clear that the usual semolina is capable of expelling hordes of ants from the dacha. With the help of decoys, gardeners will soon be able to achieve the almost complete disappearance of harmful parasites.
The principle of operation of cereals against ants is as follows:
- insects are attracted by the appearance of the delicacy - small grains, which they eagerly drag into the mink;
- by eating this food, their tiny digestive system cannot cope with the swollen delicacy, and the insects die.
As you know, in order to expel ants, it is necessary to destroy their uterus, which lays eggs. The working ants must bring the cereal to the queen, because they bring all the best for food to her. The result of this "care" is the death of the queen.
It is also known that the grains trapped in the ants' pantries swell up due to dampness, closing the aisles. And then the uterus remains hungry and dies.
From the increased humidity on the grains form mushrooms. Ants, for example, do not like this neighborhood and leave the nest.
How to apply?
The use of semolina - a technique tested by many gardeners. Anyone can easily use cereals from pests in the garden, given some of the features in the application.
- Groats are distributed throughout the site, especially carefully sprinkling the path of the ants, in the bushes with berries, near flowers and fruit trees. If a nest is found, then a fairly generous portion is scattered around it.
- To attract the attention of insects, sugar is added to the semolina. Ants prefer sweet foods. Preparing a mixture of a kilogram of semolina and a glass of powdered sugar.
- Groats doused with hot water, add jam or jam, you can honey and molasses. The finished mixture is scattered near the ant retinue.
- A combination of different cereals is used - for example, the semolina is scattered around the garden, and sweet millet is placed near the nest.
- It is recommended that pest control be carried out in springtime or in early summer, at a time when they wake up from seasonal hibernation, and have not yet managed to harm the site.
- To scattered cereal was unattractive for birds, it is masked, powdered with earth, leaves, dead wood.
- It is recommended to cultivate the land in dry and calm weather without wind, so that the grains do not get wet and fly away.
- If you have to get rid of many pests in the garden, the process of their removal can be hurried. Preparing the same mixture of cereals and powdered sugar in proportions of 3/1.
Reviews
According to experienced gardeners, for the soil and plants, semolina is certainly safer than chemicals. Reviews show excellent practical use of cereals. Nevertheless, the method helps to get rid of pests at the time, as they still multiply, come from neighboring areas. However, semolina can be used infinitely many times, as it is completely eco-friendly.
Gardeners choose semolina as the best option after the vain use of garlic and tomato tops.
Many owners of personal plots use a mixture of millet or semolina to combat plant ants harmful to plants. Both products to get on the modern market is not difficult.
Good reviews, reasonable price and harmlessness for people and animals have turned this method of insect control in the garden, including ants, the most beneficial folk remedy. It is important to observe the systematic use, and the pests will begin to disappear from the gardens.
About other folk remedies against ants, see the following video.