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There are a lot of ants in the flowerpot, how to deal with it?

1. Physical prevention

1. Apply mature

When applying base fertilizer or organic fertilizer, you must use fully fermented and decomposed organic fertilizer. Do not use raw or half-mature fertilizer to avoid attracting ants to eat it.

2. Clean the leaves

The excrement of flies, moths, aphids, mites and other insects left on the leaves can easily attract ants to come and look for food, so you should often spray the leaves with clean water to keep them clean. At the same time, you should often sweep the ground to keep the potted flower maintenance area clean and hygienic to avoid odorous substances that attract ants.

3. Soaking in water to eliminate insects

Slowly place the potted flowers that have been infested by ants into a bucket of water (the water should be deep enough to cover the pot soil) and soak them for 30 to 60 minutes. The ants cannot stand the water and will crawl out of the pot soil. At this time, you can eliminate the ants floating on the water surface and crawling on the stems and leaves of the potted flowers.

4. Garlic repels insects

Peel the garlic, mash it, and bury the crumbs in the soil. The ants will not be able to withstand the fumigation of the garlic smell and will run away on their own.

5. Repotting

For plants that have nested at the roots, the most effective way is to turn the pots over in a pool of water to kill all the ants. Then clean the roots of the plants and use new sterilized potting soil to plant potted flowers.

2. Chemical control

1. Disinfection of potting soil

Before potting or repotting, disinfect the potting soil with 40% formalin, 65% mancozeb powder, 50% carbendazim powder and other agents to kill termites, ants and their eggs in the potting soil.

2. Bury in medicinal soil

Mix 1 part of 50% dichlorvos wettable powder with 50 parts of sieved fine soil to make medicated soil, and then bury the medicated soil in the potting soil at equal distances to kill ants.

3. Watering the liquid medicine

For plants that are not suitable for repotting in hot weather, plants that have no obvious effect after burying in medicated soil and are severely damaged, or plants where ants have built nests in the potting soil, mix 10 grams of 50% cypermethrin emulsifiable concentrate with 500 to 1000 grams of water, or use 1000 grams of clean water and 5 to 10 grams of 40% dimethoate emulsion to make a solution. Pour the solution into the potting soil and places where there are ants, and then seal the entire flowerpot with a plastic bag for 12 hours to kill all the ants.

3. Eliminate the source of ants

Potted flowers should be kept away from ant nests. If ants are found in the pot soil, first follow the ants' crawling route to find the ant nest, and then eliminate it by flooding, burning, spraying, etc. Then sprinkle some lime on the ant nest and the ant's crawling route to prevent the ants from causing harm again.

Additional information

1. Tobacco

When ants appear in the pot, 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 pot, and the ants will be eliminated.

2. Ginkgo biloba

There is a saying in the agricultural proverb that "ants don't climb ginkgo trees" because ginkgo leaves contain a substance that can kill bacteria and repel insects. Mash fresh ginkgo leaves and add water, with a leaf-to-water ratio of 1:5. Soak for one day, filter, and spray with the filtrate.

Reference: Guizhou Province High-Efficiency Agricultural Park - How to deal with ants in flower pots

Growing flowers at home often causes ant damage. Ants not only affect the growth of flowers and trees, and even cause their death, but also damage furniture and contaminate food, causing a lot of trouble for flower growers. Here are some simple prevention and control methods:

1. If the number of flowers grown is small and ants are found early, the soil can be completely replaced immediately to completely eliminate the ants. The method is to completely replace the soil with ants and their eggs with fresh soil. The replaced soil must be thoroughly disinfected and can only be used after checking that there are no ant eggs. Before the flower pot is filled with new soil, it must be carefully cleaned and the replaced soil must be treated with insecticide in time. After the soil is replaced, 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, during the peak period of ant activity in summer and autumn, you can use pesticides to spray the surface of the potting soil and around the flower pots. Be careful not to spray the liquid onto the leaves and flowers. Generally, spray once every 5 days. 5 consecutive sprays can control the damage caused by ants.

3. Planting method: If you find ants in the soil of the flower pot, you can bury an appropriate amount of veterinary dichlorvos tablets in the soil in and around the ant holes. 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. The trapping method is to 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 medicine 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, use a pest control agent to spray and kill them. Trapping and killing once every 10 days can gradually eliminate the ants.

1. The first method is to use professional insect repellent to spray around the flower pots, which can effectively remove ants in the flower pots.

2. The second method is to immerse the entire flower pot in water. After the ants are flooded by water, they will crawl out of the soil and can be completely eliminated.

3. The third method is to peel and mash the garlic, and then bury the minced garlic evenly on the surface of the soil in the flowerpot. This is also a relatively simple method.

4. The last method is to dissolve laundry detergent in water and use the detergent water to wipe the leaves of the plants. This can also effectively remove ants in the flower pots.

How to prevent indoor ants

Ants are sensitive to temperature and are mostly active in hot weather. Indoor ants can be prevented by first flooding the house with boiling water, then putting detergent in the ditch to block it. You can also use sprays that kill cockroaches and mosquitoes. These drugs are effective in killing small red ants.

Prevention and treatment measures:

Strengthen household hygiene control and keep the interior and kitchen clean, especially around the kitchen stove and trash cans at home.

Regularly clear places where ants are likely to breed and remove waste items.

Block the cracks in the walls where ants can hide, and check indoor items carefully to prevent them from being brought into the house.

Common household methods: mechanical killing, scalding with boiling water, driving away with onions, ginger and garlic, digging and blocking nests, and placing food containers in salt water.

It is easier to kill worker ants with drugs, mainly because it is difficult to kill female and male ants inside the nest. Ant glue bait is mainly used to lure and kill. After the worker ants move the glue bait into the nest, they kill the queen ant and male ants. This method is easy to use, requires less dosage, and pollutes the environment less. It is a more popular method now.

The day before yesterday and yesterday, I was bitten by small yellow ants while sleeping. It was itchy, painful and I had some allergic symptoms. The following is a collection of what I collected online. I haven't tried it yet, so don't blame me if it doesn't work.

Overview of Ecology and Control of the Small Yellow House Ant

1 The harm caused by ants

Ants like to build nests indoors. Although some species live outdoors, they often invade indoors to cause harm. Male and female ants are responsible for reproducing in the same burrow. The harm is mainly caused by worker ants going out of the burrow to find food. The harm is mainly in two aspects: one is the direct economic loss caused by food damage and pollution; the other is the indirect loss caused by the spread of various diseases and harm to human health. Generally speaking, the indirect loss is far greater than the direct economic loss. '

1.1 Harassment and allergic reactions They disturb people's sleep, especially children and patients. In addition, because they crawl around in human homes to find food, they contaminate food, tableware, bedding and clothing, causing people to feel disgusted and uneasy. After being bitten by ants, they often cause papular erythema and itchy skin. Infants and young children, in particular, have body secretions that attract ants, making them more susceptible to bites. Scratching will cause ulcers and suppuration, causing severe skin damage.

1.2 Disease transmission Ants often eat patients' sputum, chew corpses or crawl on infectious objects in hospitals, bringing the pathogens they carry to food, leading to hospital infection. According to a survey conducted by Beatson1 on 9 hospitals, more than 20 types of bacteria were isolated from ants collected from kitchens, wards, washrooms, toilets, etc., and there have also been reports of cross-infection caused by small yellow house ants. The situation of ants carrying viruses has not yet been investigated, but the above is enough to show that it is entirely possible to transmit diseases such as hepatitis, dysentery, cholera, etc.

2 Small yellow house ant

There are many types of ants, with 12,000 to 14,000 known species worldwide. There is no systematic survey of ant species in my country. According to comprehensive literature reports, there are 11 types of harmful indoor ants in my country. The most common ones are the small yellow house ants (old ants, kitchen ants), which are the small yellow (red) ants commonly seen in people's homes.

2.1 Appearance of the small yellow house ant: There are three grades in the colony: female, male and worker ants. Individual ants can only be easily found by careful observation. Female ants: body length 3-4 mm, head and thorax and abdominal stalk light yellow or even orange-yellow; abdomen is relatively swollen and black. Male ants are slightly shorter, 2.5-3.5 mm long, with only wing marks. Worker ants are 1.5-2 mm long, brown or orange-yellow, with long oval abdomen and black back.

2.2 Living habits: It takes more than a month to complete the life cycle at a suitable temperature of 25-27℃ and a relative humidity of 80%. They are sensitive to temperature and will not go out at a temperature of 2-7℃. They are not tolerant to hunger. In the absence of food and water, half of them will die after 4 days and nights. Female ants have the longest lifespan, male ants have the shortest, and worker ants have a longer lifespan, with a lifespan of generally 3 to 10 weeks. They like to build nests in warm and hidden gaps in walls, wooden structures, etc. indoors. They are hydrophilic. Male and female ants have wings but do not fly. They live deep in the nest and mate and lay eggs in the nest. There are several queen ants in each nest. Each queen ant can lay an average of 3,500 eggs a year. They have a strong reproductive capacity. If you find ants in groups indoors, it means that the place is already overcrowded with ants. Only the worker ants are responsible for foraging, nest building, and defense. Other ants do not leave the main nest to move around. They have fixed ant trails for entering and exiting, and can quickly form food transportation routes. They can detect when the road lines are damaged, so that the worker ants passing by will panic and get confused when they come to this place, and then they will find a new way to go around. If they find individual worker ants dead, they will carry the bodies back to the ant nest.

2.3 Diet Ants are omnivorous and polyphagous. They eat everything that humans eat, especially sweet foods such as cakes, honey, maltose, watermelon rinds, brown sugar, fruit cores, eggs, meat, etc. Human secretions, such as sputum, bloodstains, and pus from wounds, are also eaten by ants. They also like to eat animal carcasses, and dead insects such as ground crickets, flies, crickets, beetles, and bees can attract ant colonies.

2.4 Biology: It has polymorphic phenomenon, different grades have their own responsibilities, life history is complete metamorphosis, activity habits have diurnal rhythm, at night, hot weather, low air pressure, when it is about to rain, especially when there are sweets, bread or ribs left at home, the number of worker ants going out increases, the activity is affected by environmental factors and food factors, and is also related to human factors. The activity season is from March to September every year. Although there is no hibernation period, it is affected by macroclimate and microclimate.

2.5 Diffusion: There are active diffusion and passive diffusion. They spread by crawling in different places, neighbors' homes, and people carry food and items contaminated by ants. Most of the habitats are found in the gaps in the wall, the compressor base of the refrigerator, the gaps beside the sink, and the contact between the heating pipe and the wall. Their activities are mainly related to the place where food is stored, with the highest density in the kitchen.

2.6 Hazards and diseases that can be spread:

1) The yellow house ants eat thick phlegm and can even eat the bodies of dead people in funeral homes. When crawling on infectious objects (such as used surgical dressings and items in the toilet), they will directly carry various microorganisms, such as typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, plague bacillus, etc. When they eat human food, they will bring the germs to the food, causing a variety of diseases.

2) Small yellow house ants can bite people, especially infants, children and seriously ill patients, causing erythema, pain and itching lasting for several days. They can also cause umbilical cord infection and sepsis in newborns.

3) Small yellow house ants are social and usually build nests in walls, window sills, under floors, etc., damaging buildings.

3 Ant prevention and control

3.1 Environmental prevention

① Keep food in the kitchen properly, especially sugar and honey, and keep them covered and keep the room clean.

② Block all kinds of gaps and holes in the room to prevent ants from entering the room to build nests and breed.

③ Remove dead branches, leaves, stones, tiles, weeds, etc. around the house in a timely manner to reduce the breeding of ants.

Wash, dry and clean bedding and carpets frequently, remove used food packaging boxes, and check whether there are ant nests in the flower pots to prevent ants from entering the room.

3.2 Physical prevention:

Since it is difficult or inconvenient to locate ant nests, it is difficult to control indoor ants using physical methods. These methods are limited to killing visible worker ants and cannot eradicate the ants completely.

1. If there are ants on the closet, you can put some flavorful vegetables such as coriander and celery to drive away the ants.

2. The smell of rubber can repel ants. Just tie the rubber band to the table leg or can.

3. Sprinkle talcum powder (prickly heat powder) or put some walnut leaves, tobacco, pepper, green onion, ginger, sliced ​​garlic, mothballs (powder), and egg shell crumbs that are not too burnt on the ants' nests, routes frequently passed by (or places where they appear); mop the floor with water that has been soaked with sliced ​​garlic for a while or with lavender essential oil, or spray directly with perfume or wind oil; dilute the detergent and apply it directly on the routes often passed by ants, let it dry naturally and don't wipe it with water, all of which can have the effect of repelling ants.

4 Fill a narrow-mouth bottle with a certain amount of water, apply sugar juice on the bottle mouth, and place it flat in places where ants often appear. This can attract the ants and drown them.

5 Before going to bed at night, move all food to a place where ants can't go. Then put a piece of pork fat on the ground where ants are infested, and prepare a thermos of boiling water. The next morning, the ants will gather on the pork fat and enjoy the delicious meal. Immediately scald it with boiling water or burn it with fire. It feels great, right?

6 You can use boiling water, kerosene, alkali solution, etc. to flush the entrance of the ant nest, or you can use ant and cockroach fumigation to kill them.

3.2 Chemical control

Poison bait is mainly used. Worker ants are able to forage and carry food. They are brought into the nest to feed their peers who cannot come out to eat (worker ants spit out all the food to the young and queen ants except for a small amount for themselves). The well-fed ants feed the food back to the hungry ants. This makes the ants move the bait with good palatability and small repellent effect into the nest. Through a chain reaction, the queen ant, the king ant and the young ants are poisoned and the whole nest is destroyed. Commonly used baits are sulfluramid-containing cockroach-killing bait, "Yicaoning" poison erbium, 1% chlorpyrifos, ant killer, ant-killing powder, secnin powder, ant-killing cockroach powder, etc. The principle of placing poison bait should be followed. In kitchens and storage rooms with serious ant infestations, a pile of bait should be placed every 1 meter, with 2 grams per pile, and attention should be paid to moisture-proof. Observe the amount of bait after 3 days of feeding and supplement it appropriately. After 10 days, the indoor and outdoor ant habitats can also be thoroughly treated with the residual spraying method. Drugs can be selected from rat tick poison, permethrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, etc. The dosage is based on the instructions of each drug. In addition to the above methods, you can also use: sweets to lure and kill,

Experts pointed out that it is important to note that ants are social insects. Once they are threatened, the entire nest will quickly relocate, which will make prevention and control more difficult. Ant prevention and control should first determine the site of the invasion, implement various preventive measures, and minimize the living conditions of the ants. When using chemical methods, poison bait should be used to kill the entire nest of ants. Do not use aerosol insecticides or sprays indoors at the beginning. This will not only fail to eliminate the ants, but will cause the population to spread and aggravate the ant damage.

Here are some ways to eliminate ants in your home:

1. First of all, there are ants in the house because of some food residues, especially sweets, which will attract ants. So first clean the house thoroughly and remove these food residues, and don't let there be any food residues in the house in the future.

2. Use drugs such as Jiebing Sajibi insecticide powder to kill ants. First find the ant trails where the ants appear, and then spray the medicine evenly. Be careful not to scatter it in piles. In addition to the ant trails, some hidden corners of the house are also sprinkled with medicine. After the medicine is spread, the ants will climb onto the medicine by themselves, or they will touch the Jiebing Sajibi medicine when passing by the medicine, and they will slowly die. Under normal circumstances, the ants can be completely eliminated in about ten days.

3. After the ants are eliminated, be sure to keep your house clean and tidy, especially avoid any food residues. If your house is clean, the ants will naturally be eliminated slowly.

Life tips:

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

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