2006-06-25 15:55:06 · 11 answers · asked by ambrosiasninja 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Mix borax and sugar and sprinkle int he flower beds. The sugar attracts the ants. They carry the borax back to the colony and eventually kill the queen.
2006-06-25 16:13:00 · answer #1 · answered by Rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to kill the ants? Are they biting or bothering you? combination a million cup of borax with a million/4 cup of sugar and sprinkle it around. The ants carry it back to the nest and it kills them. Borax and sugar are thoroughly innocuous to human beings and to vegetation.
2016-12-09 01:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have ants, you likely have aphids, as ants colonize them so they can harvest the "sap" they exude. Get rid of the aphids and the ants will go somewhere else to find food.
2006-06-26 04:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by dderat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dn't think there is a way. The only method I can think of, is by spraying insecticide on the path the ants usually take.
2006-06-25 15:59:25 · answer #4 · answered by Trapz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drown the ants in water!
2006-06-25 15:58:43 · answer #5 · answered by T4Toyin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shoot at them with a .22 pistol? Who cares if ants are on your flowers? I've not heard they do any damage.
2006-06-25 15:58:40 · answer #6 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With ant spray.
2006-06-25 15:58:23 · answer #7 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think ants hurt plants - and if they are on your peonies you don't WANT to knock them off, because they are helping the buds to open. Quite likely they are eating other pests that would destroy your plants.
2006-06-25 16:39:09 · answer #8 · answered by momofboys 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that a mix of beer and dish soap mixed with water in a spray bottle sprayed on the plants will help...
2006-06-25 16:05:54 · answer #9 · answered by stessie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look a little closer... realll close... ants will carry aphids up to your new growth on your plants because they feed off of the aphid's excrement... you might have this problem,,, take care of any aphids and you take care of the ants... the aphids are a bigger problem if you have them... also i have used grits to get rid of ants... they eat it and explode when they get water...
2006-06-25 17:01:21 · answer #10 · answered by kayakakas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋