How to Get Rid of Ants in the Lawn

What will you do when you see a few ants on your lawn? Yes, you saw a few ants, what you didn't see is the colony ? that specialists say can number between 300,000 to 500,000. There is a lot of them. There's over 12,000 species, they are hard to control, and they are the number pest in the country. An ant colony lives a very long time, and your giant issue is how to get rid of ants in the lawn?


First let's understand what makes ants successful. Ants are predators; they crawl in to small spaces and nest in dark damp dirt and rotten vegetables. They work hard to carryover food to the colony. Ants love foliage; they will hack leaves, chew them, and store them in their nests. They love human food; when they locate a food source, they leave an invisible trail, or called a run, for other worker ants to follow. Now, the answer to the query, how to get rid of ants in the lawn.


Specialists tell us there's several ways how to get rid of ants in the lawn, for example: the improvised approach kills the ant you see, the chemical treatment that kills everything. Some organic methods include:


Stopping the Ants


one. Drowning the ant hills with boiling water.


two. Flooding the ant hills with a citrus blend.


three. Sprinkle the ant hills with grits or cream of wheat.


four. Sprinkle the ant hills with dry molasses.


five. Sprinkle the ant hills with dry red chili peppers, to name a few.


You can also plant mint. This technique may get rid of the ants, but mint will invade your lawn, and you'll have a field of mint.


Ants love moisture, in case you have a standing water issue, get rid of it. The sweet liquid plenty of insects ooze, draws ants from in all places. Ants head for dark damp areas and build there nests in elderly wood, firewood, and other similar materials piled next to your home.


Above all, keep cracks sealed.


You have tried everything, some worked, some didn't. Now you are going to try the chemical treatment. There's plenty of choices available to you. Granules gets rid of fire ants. When the queen eats the granules, he dies and the ant hill dies along with her. Liquid works well with leaf ants. They don't eat granules or ant bait. product is miraculous: diatomaceous earth. It is natural, and won't harm the environment, people or animals, and it kills the ants.