Thankfully I had finished my coffee country boy or it would have spluttered all over the keyboard
Thankfully I had finished my coffee country boy or it would have spluttered all over the keyboard
Just a country girl looking for a new life
Where have the Ants gone?
Yesterday evening, I was watering the plants down on the patio and the hibiscus had some beautiful flowers (about 6" in diameter) on it so I picked one and gave it to one of our visitors. Her son asked to have a look at it; he threw it down and said there are ants in it. He was right there were about two dozen ants in that one flower. Now I know where some of my ants have gone!
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A bit off topic as we have an ant problem in the UK on our back lawn we have black and red ants and have tried everything on the market in the UK and it has failed.
We have bumps in the lawn that any mole would be proud of.
It is so bad we can not sit on the lawn without being attacted.
I wondered if these products in spain would help us in the Uk as the rules are so stricked you cant seem to buy anything anymore due to health and saftey it has gone crazy in th UK!!
Proven harmful insecticides where removed from sale in many countries BUT some places like Spain ignore the sensible rulings and keep using them. In Scotland we used Nippon ( not sure if one 'p' or 2 ) is it still available ? it worked a treat when we were over run with them. Does the local council still come and deal them also ? or Rentokil ?
Just a country girl looking for a new life
All of the above methord will work to a certain extent, but beware that you dont divert the little buggers into your house. They are notoriously difficult to deter. The little lizards do a good job, but the pesticieds used to kill anys also kill them so again be carefull what you use.
An ant free public loo mindOriginally Posted by country boy
No Ants but now your patio smells like a Public Loo
Brian
The trouble was, many unproven and non-harmful products fell by the wayside too.
We have tried Nippon here and they just ignored it (it says on the container "kills on contact" - it didn't with our ants). We also used Terro that was very good in Florida and South America for the sugar loving ants and, Yes they liked it but how many it got rid of I have no idea. There used to be a continuous stream of them, up to five wide, climbing 20 ft up the outside wall to the balcony and disappearing into a hole in the wall - that's a whole lot of ants. Then they all disappeared, we think to avoid the heat. Not sure if blocking up the access holes in the cement render will confound them if and when they return or whether that will drive them into the house.
The real problem is that all those insecticides became more necessary when farmers altered the balance of nature by grubbing out the hedges in the search of greater food production (and profit) thus removing the nesting sites for the birds that, previously, kept down the insect population.
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