Happy Hopping said:
Use a screw driver to stir up the remaing ants, use a rock and roll them over (it's really fun to do :lol: )
that is cruel! And its horrible that you obviously take delight in killing them.
There are ways to keep ants away from areas of your garden where your rabbits are without killing them, such as peppermint oil.
this was on yahoo answers:
We Should not Poison Ourselves, Kids and Pets
It's a good idea to let ants know that yours is not their house, without killing them. For ants are very helpful to keep this earth clean. Using poison, we only poison ourselves, too, even when we do not realize it. Yet, a toxic effect can be seen immediately on life energy photographs after the use of poisons.
Different Preferences
In my experience, it depends on the type of ants what they like least.
What can be Used?
I have used cinnamon, peppermint, cayenne or citrus oils. Ants have a very sensitive sense of smell, and these items are too strong for them so that they avoid these. For some reason, some ants do not like cucumber rinds, grated and sprinkled around.
Someone Checking
With natural means we may not hinder all ants to come in, but most. They may be always a few ants just checking out our facility. If there is nothing they need, they do not call their armies to carry off the booty.
Ants as Our Educators
Helping us clean, the ants assist us to be very clean if we do not want their help. At least, they themselves do not poison us.
Discourage Them Inside, but Give the Ants What They Need
What worked best for me is to distribute some of the above mentioned items around and in the house, and give the ants what they need outside the house.
Knowing the Weather
Before the rain they need oils and may find them when stove or floor are not cleaned. The ants know when the rain storm is coming before the weather man may know it. I have watched this for many years. They suddenly come in, in greater numbers, looking for oil, even on the pillow sheets, if they do not find it outside the house! The oil is needed to make their chambers waterproof! Especially in dry years they do not find enough sap of trees to meet their needs, and they enter the grease spotted house to meet their needs.
Give Them What They Need - Outside
When the ants come in, in greater numbers, I know that a rain storm will come, although the sun is shining and no real cloud is in the sky. Then I place sheets of paper towel, soaked in olive oil, outside by the house, but a few yards away. This way the ants can smell the oil on their way to the house but are not attracted to the house directly. I hold the oiled pieces of paper towel down with some rocks. This way the ants can easily get the oil and walk off happily, leaving the house alone. One or two may still come in, but that's no problem. They are just checking.
Ants like Seeds and Starch
Sprinkling sunflower seeds around also helps to keep the ants busy. A bag of bird seeds may be $4 and lasts a long time. It takes the ants some effort to carry off one seed, although the birds may gladly help to eat the seeds.
The Queen Knows
Often, I wondered how the ants know what's in the house, where the sources are and when. Science found out that they have a psychic queen, who intuitively knows where the needed resources can be found. Amazing. Even when the ant queen was away from the ant home, she could still send her telepathic messages to the ants.
Ants - the Garbage Crew
Imagine we had no ants on earth, ants who chew up the empty beetle shells. We would be swamped with these beetle shells, for they do not decay easily. The ants, like other animals in their own ways, take care of many other things for us, so that the earth stays clean.
Let Them Live
For that reason alone I think we need to be kind to the ants and tell them in a gentle way that we don't want them in the house, but let them live outside!
A Stone Setting for the Ants
I never had a major problem with ants as long as I gave them outside what they needed. A small stone setting may be sufficient to place some fruit scraps, bread crumbs, seeds, sugar items etc. out for them. They will be so busy, carrying these items off. I place some fist size rocks in a circle, with spaces between them, and cover the circle with a flat rock as lid. I repeatedly place food scraps there so that the ants keep busy.
May we all make peace with nature's helpers, they all have their task to keep the earth energy in balance, and fulfill it conscientiously!
Cordially, India.Magica
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