Semolina from ants: how does it work and how to use it?
Semolina, like millet, 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 is still not fully understood. In practice, it is clear that ordinary semolina is able to expel hordes of ants from their summer cottage. With the help of semolina, gardeners will soon be able to achieve the almost complete disappearance of harmful parasites.
The principle of action of cereals against ants is as follows:
- insects are attracted by the appearance of a treat - small grains, which they eagerly drag into a mink;
- 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. Worker ants will surely bring the grain to the queen, because they bring all the best food to her. The result of such "care" is the death of the queen.
It is also known that the grains that have fallen into the storerooms of ants swell from dampness, closing the passages. And then the uterus remains hungry and dies.
Mushrooms form on grains from high humidity.Ants, for example, do not like this neighborhood and leave the nest.
How to apply?
The use of semolina is a technique tested by many gardeners. Anyone can use cereals from pests in the garden without any problems, given some features in the application.
- Groats are distributed throughout the site, especially carefully sprinkling the paths of ants, near bushes with berries, near flowers and fruit trees. If an ant nest is found, then a rather generous portion is scattered near it.
- To attract the increased attention of insects, sugar is added to the semolina. Ants prefer sweet foods. A mixture is prepared from a kilogram of semolina and a glass of powdered sugar.
- The cereal is doused with hot water, jam or jam is added, honey and molasses can be used. The finished mixture is scattered near the ant shelters.
- A combination of different cereals is used - for example, semolina is scattered around the garden, and sweet millet is placed near the nest.
- Pest control is recommended to be done in spring or early summer, at a time when they wake up from seasonal hibernation, and have not yet had time to harm the land.
- To make scattered cereals unattractive to birds, they mask it, sprinkling it with earth, leaves, and dead wood.
- The cultivation of the land is recommended to be carried out in dry and calm weather without wind, so that the grains do not get wet and fly off.
- If you have to get rid of a lot of pests in the garden, the process of removing them can be hurried. The same mixture is prepared from cereals and powdered sugar in proportions of 3/1.
Reviews
According to experienced gardeners, semolina is certainly safer than chemicals for soil and plants. Reviews show an excellent practical application of cereals.Nevertheless, the method helps to get rid of pests for a while, since they still multiply, they come from neighboring areas. However, semolina can be used infinitely many times, as it is completely environmentally friendly.
Gardeners choose semolina as the best option after the futile use of garlic and tomato tops.
Many homeowners use a mixture of millet or semolina to control ants that are harmful to plants. Both products are easy to get on the modern market.
Good reviews, affordable price and harmlessness to people and animals have turned this method of controlling insects in the garden, including ants, the most profitable folk remedy. It is important to observe the systematic application, and pests will disappear from the gardens.
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