help my lawn is ruined!?

Question

i have grown a lovely lawn in the last year and now it is nearly ruined through ants. it is all patchy after i have cut it and looks like a rugby pitch, full of little holes all over that resemble something like football boot stud marks. what can i put on my lawn to get rid of the ants without damaging the grass?

Answer 1

There is a product that you can buy that comes in the form of a granule or pellet. It is made especially for ants and you can spread it with a spreader like you would use for fertilizer. The ants collect it & carry it down into their tunnels & it kills them.

Answer 2

ants are little buggers when it comes to your lawn. Most ant poisons will not damage the lawn but be advised the ants are now sleeping so you will need to wait until spring. Go to your garden centre and buy ant killing powder and wait. When spring comes pour the powder around the ant hills and repeat every 2 weeks. this should solve the ant problem. you have to be prepared to do this or the next advice is wasted. Beg borrow or steal an electric scarifier ( a very hard raking to you or me) the ants will have killed a lot of grass you will need to rake it out that is why an electric rake (£30 for a cheap one from home base) is good. Afterwards seed with hardy lawn seed. That way your lawn should look nice in a few weeks. After you kill the ants scarify and if necessary seed again

Answer 3

Hi only thing to do is put ant dust around the main runs and use a spray for green fly in your shrubs as the ants milk the greenfly for food if you get rid of the greenfly you may be on your way to clearing up your ant problem you could also see if there are any drenches available on the net or in a garden centre and if all else fails try a company called GREEN THUMB very good and cheap.

Answer 4

Are you totally sure its ants that are causing this? If it was one small area of lawn I could understand ants doing a little damage, but yours sounds too extensive. There are a variety of other insects that damage lawns and yours sounds very much like the lavae of the 'daddy-long-legs. Copy and paste the link below and see if it sounds like the problem your having. If it is - the answer is there as well. Good luck
Oh, get rid of your ants anyway - they are still a nuisance

Answer 5

Get a tub of Nippon ant poison. Its a sticky liquid that ants just can't resist. All you do is put a little blob down, the worker ants take it back to the queen and they all eat it, thus wiping out the whole lot, queen and all!

Answer 6

Try the nutra sweet method or get some hardcore chemicals like chlorpyrofos, permethrin or bifenthren. Chlorpyrofos can be sprinkled on and then watered into the nest. Its not real good for you though

Answer 7

don't put anything directly on iyour yard.doing this especially going into winter will drive them into your house along with other insects setting pesticide traps in different places around your yard to draw the from the yard and kill them.or borrow somebodies ant eater.

Answer 8

This might sound strange but get some aspartame (Nutra-sweet) and put it on the anthills. Aspartame was originally developed as an ant poison, it really works.

Answer 9

I had the same prob, by accident I got the buggers to leave (or died)by spilling soapy water I think they suffocated! also dish soap has worked on roaches. I was stayin with a friend in mississippi & she had a roach in the sink & I dripped dish soap on it & it died instantly!Try even pure dish soap on the mounds!

Answer 10

May I suggest decking? It will save any more ant problems.