Beginner Gardening: ants in vegetable garden, 1 by Ret_Sgt_Yates

Ret_Sgt_Yates wrote:
HoneybeeNC,


The Natural Citrus Oil found in lemon juice and orange oil mixed with Soap and sprayed on an ant mound after it has been disturbed will kill 99.99% of the ants that live there. Ants have a wax type coating on their bodies the soap, citrus oils and juice breaks the wax down, and they “cook from the inside out or “dehydrate” and die.

Also for Smaller Mounds you can dust with silica gel dust the ants will take to the food storage area thus killing the food and the nest it will dehydrate the nest from the inside out .

I posted this info on another threads for a few folks … ~;{>)


The Sarge