Hello and welcome to Enjoy Life and I've told you about borax ant repellent several times before
Borax ant repellent is very effective at eradicating entire colonies of ants and I've tried it myself many times with great results
Today's video is about how to get rid of ants on fruit trees
Every year at this time of the year when spring and summer change there are a lot of ants in the yard
Ants have more or less influence on the vegetables we grow and the fruit trees we grow
I've seen ants eating my okra and the fruit trees I used to grow are crawling with ants
They would also move aphids onto the leaves and the aphids would curl the leaves
So the growth of the whole tree is affected so the fundamental solution is to root out the ants
Today's method is very simple to do in one step without any chemicals
You might even have something like this at home and I'm using tape like this
It is called duck tape (or duct tape) and you can see that it is very sticky
It comes in a variety of colors and I'm just taking one of the colors that I used to use for decoration
Now, some of the leftovers just happen to be used to control fruit trees and ants after we took the tape off
And then carefully wrap it around the trunk where the ants are going and that's it
This is where all the ants come up and down so it's important to take precautions when the weather gets warm between spring and summer
The first one to appear at this time was a little black fly who wanted to give it a try
It's stuck and it can't move. It's a plum tree and it attracts a lot of ants every year
In fact, some of the ants have already climbed up the tree and they're trying to get down and the ants are already there
They tried to get to the tape but couldn't get past it so they backed off
What about the ants under the tape
Apparently they tried to get up but found the road blocked
More and more ants began to approach
The ant on the tree can't get down the ant under the tree can't find the difference
The ants below want to go up and find that they can't even give up, but the ants above really want to come down
So they tried to cross the tape but it was too sticky
so they have to go back and now you can see more and more ants up there
You can see that there are already a lot of ants on the tree maybe there are already a lot of aphids and brave ants always have them
But I found it was too difficult to walk to the middle and then I had to go back
So this duck tape works really well because it's so sticky
It's not a substitute for plain old tape and it's very easy to buy at any of the big chains like Wal-mart
Or you don't have to buy duck tape like I do you can use something else as long as it's very sticky
So it's not enough just to control the ants physically in order to control the ants better
I'm still using the borax ant repellent I told you about three tablespoons of granulated sugar and one teaspoon of borax
Add some warm water to melt them and borax is very good you can get it in the laundry detergent section of a big supermarket and you can get it for about five bucks a box
The biggest feature of borax ant repellent is that after the ants have eaten their fill
Food bait coated with borax can be brought back to the nest and fed to the queen to eliminate the entire colony
The point must be that there is 3-4 times more sugar than borax
And then throw in a piece of food like bread
Even unsweetened cookies or steamed buns are fine. Fill up with ant repellent and place it in a strawberry box
This strawberry box has its own pores and it has a lot of holes up and down the sides so there's no need to drill any more
Then I put the strawberry box under the tree
This time can be seen near the ant nest
There's still a lot of ants trying to get up under the tree and I'm sure the nest's around here if we don't use this duck tape
You can imagine how many ants would climb up the tree so we're doing both
Duck tape was used and ant bait was placed under the tree so it's both physical and chemical
And it works really well because the ants don't go there right after you put the borax ant
You have to wait half an hour to an hour or so and after half an hour you can see a lot of ants don't want to go up the tree anymore
They focused their attention on the bread and the bread in the strawberry box was infested with ants
Can you see that they're crawling in and out of the strawberry and the hole next to it
Many ants are greedily enjoying the delicious bread
Let's take a look at that in half an hour
There were almost no ants on the trees and a lot of ants gathered around the strawberry box and came and went
This ant repellent box is so effective that I've succeeded every time I've tried it
I also shared the tips in my previous videos so if you're interested you can click on the link in the upper right corner of the video
Take a look at this ant repellent box and I believe that after today's operation two pronged
There will be significantly fewer ants on this tree and this plum tree will grow healthily and produce more fruit this year
We'll check back in the evening before it gets dark
At this point, there are no ants at all
Some ants carry the delicious bread back to the nest
Duck tape on a tree This duck tape can physically prevent ants from infesting fruits and vegetables
The only downside to duck tape is that it's time-sensitive if you're in a very dusty area with frequent wind and dust storms
So the duck tape loses its stickiness or it rains and the tape doesn't stick as well
The solution is as simple as cutting out the old duck tape and replacing it with a new one
Anyway, I hope you found this video helpful and subscribe if you're interested in growing vegetables
See you next time