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How to prevent ants when breeding earthworms

Natural enemy control

1. Types of natural enemies: The natural enemies of earthworms mainly include rats, frogs, birds, snakes, toads, cockroaches, ants, etc.

2. Prevention and control methods:

① Dig ditches around the breeding beds for prevention;

②Use cats to kill rats;

③ Use Baichongling to spray and kill cockroaches, ants, mole crickets, etc.

Disease control

1. Causes of the disease:

1. Beverage acidification causes earthworm diseases;

2. The humidity of the earthworm bed is too high;

3. The pH value of feed is too high;

4. Tapeworms, nematodes and other livestock and poultry parasites harm earthworms.

2. Common wind diseases:

1. Protein poisoning:

①Symptoms: The earthworms develop spasmodic nodules all over their bodies, their bodies become short and thin, the annuli become red and swollen, and they secrete a large amount of mucus on their body surface. They often burrow into the bottom of the feed and refuse to eat or move. Finally, they become exhausted and die with their bodies turning white.

②Reason: The feed contains a large amount of starch, carbonated hydrates, or too high salt content, which causes acidification through the flushing effect of bacterial residue, leading to excessive stomach acid in earthworms.

③Prevention and control measures: lift the covering to allow the earthworm bed to ventilate, spray soda water on the earthworm bed or add gypsum to neutralize it.

2. Toxin or gas poisoning:

①Symptoms: The earthworms become rapidly paralyzed either partially or completely, discharge yellow or grass-colored fluid from their backs, and die in piles.

②Reason: The feed contains toxins and toxic gases.

③Prevention and control measures: reduce the thickness of the material bed and remove toxic feed; loosen the material bed, add earthworm castings to absorb toxic gases, and let the earthworms dive to the bottom layer to rest.

3. Earthworm edema disease:

① Symptoms: The earthworms swell and become dazed, and they try their best to crawl out, and body fluids come out of their dorsal holes, and they die of food stagnation. It may even cause the cocoons to rupture, or the ends of newly laid cocoons cannot close and become infected with bacteria and rot.

②Reason: The humidity in the earthworm bed is too high and the pH value of the feed is too high.

③Prevention and control measures: dig trenches to drain water, clean the earthworms that crawl to the surface and put them into the fresh feed bed. Neutralize the original beverage with superphosphate powder or vinegar residue or alcohol residue, and use it again after a normal period of time.

Actually, both earthworm and earthworm farming now require anti-ant measures. The specific measures are as follows: Chlordane oil and chlordane powder are two drugs sold on the market now. They do not harm ants and will only keep them away. This is the same as snakes being afraid of realgar, but it does not mean that it will harm them. Now a new drug has been developed, and its effect is even more powerful.

Kill the ants in the nest.

It also disappears very slowly. According to the habit of ants, they will drag the food back to the hole, and then this will play its power. Sprays that are more common on the market to kill cockroaches and beetles can also be used. But be careful not to accidentally hurt your earthworms when using it.

Use a drug that is specifically designed to kill ants, such as the Harmony Leather Socks BMW Ant Drug. Kill ants before placing the seedlings. After placing the seedlings, pay attention to the surrounding areas of the breeding area. If you find an ant nest, spread the drug in time to kill one nest at a time.

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Ants are sensitive to temperature and are active mostly in hot weather. They like sweet foods such as cakes, honey, maltose, brown sugar, eggs, fruit cores, meat skins, dead insects, etc. They can identify roads and move very quickly. If individual worker ants die, their bodies will be transported back to the ant nest. However, they cannot tolerate hunger. Without food and water, half of them will die after 4 days and nights.

Experts suggest that household ants can be prevented and controlled by first soaking them in boiling water and then putting washing powder into the ditch to block them. Sprays that kill cockroaches and mosquitoes can also be used. These drugs are effective in killing small red ants. However, small red ants are semi-social insects. General sprays can only kill worker ants that leave the nest in the group. The queen ants and ant kings, which are breeding machines, are still breeding crazily in the nest. A queen ant can give birth to 600 small ants per second, so it is ideal to take collective action on the whole building to kill ants. The best way is to choose a poison bait that is palatable and has no effect on ants. After the worker ants carry the poison bait back, they can poison the ant king, queen ants and larvae in the nest and kill them, thus destroying the entire nest.

Use the characteristics of ants to eliminate them:

Ants often hang out in kitchens with oily food. You can use this feature to kill them. Before going to bed at night, move all food to a place where ants cannot reach. Then put a piece of fat pork on the ground and prepare a bottle of boiling water. The next morning, the ants will gather on the fat pork and enjoy the meal. Do not scare them away, but kill them immediately with boiling water. Do this a few times and you can kill them all.

■Indoor ant species and their control methods

The harm of indoor ants to homes is often ignored by people. According to investigation, indoor ants mainly include small yellow house ants, big-headed ants, Rocky road ants and smelly ants. They often build nests on the roadside, corners and cracks in the wall. The main ways of harm are stealing food, biting and spreading bacteria. According to their activity characteristics, some physical and chemical methods can be used for prevention and control, such as blocking the activity route and blocking the nest. If conditions permit, biological hormones can also be used for prevention and control.

With the rapid development of our urban construction, the living environment of ants has changed dramatically, and they have gradually adapted to the densely built and densely populated urban environment, and often invade indoors to find food and build nests. Since indoor ants can contaminate food, damage buildings, spread bacteria, and bite humans, they can cause certain harm to human life. In order to better prevent and control this harm, we must understand the types and habits of indoor ants, and then propose some effective methods based on specific situations.

Materials and methods:

After investigating and counting common household insect pests, we found that there are four main types of ants: small yellow house ants, big-headed ants, Rocky road ants and stink ants. Through the analysis of the characteristics of these four types of ants, although their harm is far less than that of cockroaches and flies, they are still a hidden danger to homes. Therefore, in view of their characteristics of living in caves and leaving special chemical odors on their activity paths, the following methods can be used to remove them:

1. Wipe with a damp cloth:

If you find one or more rows of ants moving around, wipe them off with a damp cloth and drown them in a basin of detergent water;

2. Washing powder drain barrier:

Since ants will drown once they enter the detergent water, this method can be used to protect a certain area;

3. Flooding:

That is, flooding the ant nest with water is more suitable for ants that nest in flower pots.

4. Chemical control:

Dust: Usually, inhalable dust such as silicic acid (silicon dioxide) powder is used to cause ants to lack water in their bodies and die;

5. Silicate mealworm pyrethroid powder mixture:

This method is an improvement on the above method and can shorten the killing time, but it should be avoided that the dog inhales the powder or inhales the dust into the room.

Chemical spray: Spraying chemicals around the entrance of the ant nest and on the ant trail can directly kill the ants.

This method is prone to environmental pollution and resistance. The most commonly used agents are as follows:

Spray 500-1000 times diluted 90% or more trichlorfon stock solution;

Spray 50% dichlorvos EC or 80% dichlorvos EC at 1000-1500 times dilution or 2000-3000 times dilution;

0.1% pyrethrin kerosene solvent spray, etc.

These methods have good effects and are quick to take effect, but they are not thorough, difficult to eradicate, and are prone to environmental pollution and resistance.

6. Poison bait:

Poison bait is a mixture of chemical agents and food bait that ants like to eat. According to the ant's feeding behavior, after a worker ant eats the poison bait, as long as it does not die within a short period of time, it can bring the poison bait into the ant nest, causing the death of other individuals, usually within seven days. However, ant pupae do not eat, so they may survive, making the ant removal incomplete.

7. Juvenile hormone analogue bait:

That is, Doulingpei adds juvenile hormone analogs, such as Chlorfluazuron and Methoprene, to the bait. The hormone concentration is generally 0.6% to 1.5% of the bait weight. Currently, we are developing the method of adding synergists to juvenile hormone analogs to make this method more perfect.

8. Burn egg shells and grind them into powder. Sprinkle them in the corners or near ant nests to kill ants. If there are ants on the closet, put some coriander, celery and other flavorful vegetables to drive away the ants. Put some walnut leaves, tobacco and pepper in places where ants often appear to drive away ants.

9. Lemongrass essential oil is particularly effective against ants

10. Ants are afraid of charcoal. You know that black charcoal from burning wood? Just make a few lines on the edge.

11. Just add a few broken leeks to the sugar bowl to keep away ants.

12. Put some water in an unwanted perfume bottle and place it on the floor next to the water dispenser. This will keep ants away from the dispenser.

13. Sprinkle talcum powder (powder for prickly heat) on the places where ants walk, and you will not see ants in a few days.

14. Ants are afraid of the smell of rubber bands, so just tie the rubber bands to the legs of a table or a can.

15. If there are ants in the closet, you can put some fragrant vegetables such as coriander and celery to drive away the ants.

16. Dilute the detergent and apply it directly to the route that ants often use. Let it dry naturally and do not wipe it clean with water.

17. Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to the water you use to mop the floor and ants will be eliminated from your home.

18. Grind camphor balls into powder and sprinkle it in places where ants often appear. It is very effective.

19. Cut a 1 cm wide rubber strip from a discarded bicycle ring and nail it to the door frame and the window frame between the glass window and the screen with shoe nails and pins. Since nailing the rubber strip, no red ants have entered the house. Although the rubber strip cannot completely eliminate the red ants, it can effectively prevent the infestation of red ants, so it is worth a try.

20. Putting peppercorns in areas where ants are present can drive away ants. However, it cannot completely eliminate them.

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