CATDOLL : CATDOLL: There are ants in the flowers and plants at home. How to deal with it?

1. There are ants in the flowers and plants at home. How to deal with it

1. Soil replacement method. If you don’t have many flowers and you find ants early, you can replace the soil immediately to completely eliminate the ants. The method is to replace the soil with ants and their eggs with fresh soil. The new soil must be thoroughly disinfected and can only be used after checking that there are no ant eggs. Before putting new soil into the flower pot, it must be carefully cleaned and the replaced soil must be treated with insecticide in time. After changing the soil, the place where the flower pot is placed should be sprayed with insecticide or other insecticides.

2. Spraying method. If there are a large number of ants and their activity range is wide, you can use the insecticide to spray the surface of the pot soil and around the flower pots during the peak period of ant activity in summer and autumn. Be careful not to spray the liquid medicine on the leaves and flowers. Generally, spray once every 5 days. 5 consecutive sprays can control the harm of ants.

3. Planting method. If you find ants in the soil of the flower pot, you can bury an appropriate amount of veterinary trichlorfon tablets in the soil in and around the ant nest. Depending on the size of the flower pot, 5 to 8 tablets are appropriate. Then water it thoroughly every day. After 7 days, the ants in the pot can be killed.

4. Trapping and killing method. Use a small piece of pig skin or chicken bone to trap and kill ants 20 cm away from the flower pot where the ants are found. Do not put any drugs in the trap. Generally, the skin or chicken bones will be discovered by the ants after 2-3 hours. In order to transport food, the ants will come out in full force. At this time, spray them with pest control spirit. Trapping and killing once every 10 days can gradually eliminate the ants.

5. When ants appear in the flowerpot, soak cigarette butts and tobacco in hot water for one or two days. When the water turns dark brown, sprinkle some of the water on the flower stems and leaves, dilute the rest and pour it into the flowerpot, and the ants can be eliminated.

2. What should I do if there are ants in the bonsai?

Having ants in bonsai can be harmful as well as protective.

Damage---Aphids grow on plants, and ants like to eat the secretions of aphids, which contain sugars, so ants protect aphids and drive away the aphids' natural enemies, such as ladybugs. There is also a type of leaf-cutter ant that cuts leaves from trees and other plants and uses them to grow fungi. They feed their larvae with the grown fungi.

Protection---Ants are omnivorous and eat insects. They will attack pests on plants, such as caterpillars, which is equivalent to protecting the plants.

3. How can I get rid of ants on the leaves of ornamental plants without affecting the growth of the plants? Thank you

Check to see if there are any aphids.

Symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids.

Ants protect aphids for the nectar they secrete, and aphids are protected from being preyed upon by their natural enemy, ladybugs. This is a well-known mutually beneficial symbiosis.

Ants and aphids can be controlled with imidacloprid-type drugs.

When aphids occur sporadically, you can use a brush dipped in water to gently brush them off and kill them.

When aphids occur in large numbers, spraying is necessary. There are many pesticides for preventing and controlling aphids, such as spraying 40% dimethoate or 80% dichlorvos emulsion 1000-1500 times liquid, or spraying 2.5% dervine essence 1000 times liquid, or 60 times liquid of grass lime water (plus 0.1% washing powder), etc.

besides:

1. Garlic juice. Take 0.5 kg of purple garlic, add a little water and soak for a while, mash and extract the juice, dilute it 10 times with water, and spray it immediately to prevent and control aphids, red spiders, and scale insect nymphs; pour the garlic juice into the potting soil to prevent and control nematodes and earthworms.

2. Tobacco leaf water: Take 50 grams of tobacco leaves or 100 grams of tobacco stems and cigarette butts, add 1.5 kilograms of water, boil for half an hour, or soak for a day and night, rub repeatedly with your hands, filter with gauze, and add 0.1%-0.2% neutral laundry detergent to spray, which can prevent and control aphids, red spiders, leafhoppers, thrips, leaf rollers and many other leaf-eating pests.

3. Pepper water: Take 50 grams of dried red pepper, add about 1 kilogram of water and boil for 10-20 minutes, filter and spray the clear liquid to prevent and control aphids, red spiders, whiteflies, etc.

4. Pepper water: Take 50 grams of pepper (or pepper), add about 1 kilogram of water, boil for 30-40 minutes, filter and spray on the plants to kill aphids.

5. Boil water with Pulsatilla striata. Take 500 grams of Pulsatilla striata bulbs, add 5 kilograms of water and boil for half an hour, filter and spray on flowers to kill aphids.

4. If there are ants on bonsai at home, how to get rid of them?

1. Use a bucket of clean water and slowly sink the affected bonsai or potted flowers to the bottom of the bucket (the water surface should be above the top of the pot). After half an hour, remove all the ants in the water. Alternatively, peel garlic and smash it into small pieces with a kitchen knife. Bury them in the potting soil at equal distances. After two or three days, the ants will escape and it will not affect the growth of flowers and trees. 2. Use 70% ant killer powder and sprinkle it directly on the soil surface where there are ants, or around ant nests and ant tunnels, or make it into bait and spread it. In addition, spraying lindane, chlordane, heptachlor and other powders on the soil surface where ants are active also has good results.