How can I keep ants from climbing up my trees?

Question

I have a fruit tree and another ornamental tree that has ants crawling all over them. The aunts are killing the trees. I have applied seven dust and similar products. Any other suggestions.

Answer 1

Management on Trees and Shrubs

When numerous ants are found on plants, they are probably attracted to the sweet honeydew deposited on the plants by honeydew-producing insects such as aphids or soft scales. Ants may also be attracted up into trees or shrubs by ripening or rotten sweet fruit or floral nectar. These ants can be kept out by banding tree trunks with sticky substances such as Tanglefoot. Trim branches to keep them from touching structures or plants so that ants are forced to climb up the trunk to reach the foliage.

Protect young or sensitive trees from possible injury by wrapping the trunk with a collar of heavy paper, duct tape, or fabric tree wrap and coating this with the sticky material. Check the sticky material every 1 or 2 weeks and stir it with a stick to prevent the material from getting clogged with debris and dead ants, which will allow ants to cross. Ant stakes with bait can also be used around trees. In landscapes, some mulches can repel ants and discourage nesting. For example, aromatic pencil cedar mulch repels Argentine ants, whereas pine straw provides an ideal nesting site. Be aware that not all types of cedar chips repel ants: the effectiveness of red cedar chips found in California has not been verified.
Baits

Baits are insecticides mixed with materials that attract worker ants looking for food. They are a key tool for managing ants and the only type of insecticide recommended in most situations. Ants are attracted to the bait and recruit other workers to it. Workers carry small portions of the bait back to the nest where it is transferred mouth-to-mouth to other workers, larvae, and queens and other reproductive forms to kill the entire colony. Bait products must be slow-acting so that the foraging ants have time to make their way back to the nest and feed other members of the colony before they are killed. When properly used, baits are more effective and safer than sprays.

Answer 2

Ants Climbing A Tree

Answer 3

Soak a length of bandage in water and loads of eucalyptus oil, (Olbas Oil) and wrap it around the lower part of the trunk. I could t believe how the ants were unable to step on the bandage and the ones on the tree stuck there wondering what to do. Honest, they were gathering at the bandage, unable to exit the tree or venture on up the tree; some were even jumping off the upper part of the trunk to find an exit.

Answer 4

Try a line of vaseline or axle grease.
the ants can't crawl over this. also works on other places to keep ants off like posts and electrical wires. Just make sure you go all the way around with the grease.

Answer 5

Fruit tree grease bands are available. VERY sticky harmless compound that will prevent insects from climbing tree trunks. It is available in tubs or as bandages.PS. NEVER use Sevin on fruit trees, its use as a pesticide is in some doubt and some consider it to be a carcinogen( possible links to cancer).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I use a "soap pesticide" available at Home depot : It works well...In general ,Ants are hard to get rid off Good luck

Answer 8

a honey trail that leads away from the nest to the edge of the garden, circl it around the tree about six foot from the trunk.

Answer 9

find the ant hills and try pooring really hot water on them.
good luck!

Answer 10

duct tape around base or anything sticky, even motor oil