Fava bean ant infestation??
Question:I am growing fava beans here in south ontario. They should do fine, but the stalks are crawling with small ants, there is no hope for edible beans. Can anybody out there help?
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non-chemical ways of getting rid of ants and using theings you can find around the house.
Attack their home
If you can figure out where the ant nest is, you can attack it directly. One idea is to poor boiling water on it.
Starve them
If possible; remove what they are feeding on, usually sweet things. Since in the garden this can be veggies, fruit, or berries, this might be difficult. I was able to do this in my garden by killing the aphid farms they were living off of.
Destroy their means of communication
Ants communicate with scent trails. If you spray or powder strong smelling things on those scent trails, like vinegar, cayenne pepper, black pepper, baby powder, mint, it will disrupt them and the ants will be lost as to where to go. You could even try spraying/powdering your plants with these things to see if it will stop the ants from finding them.
Fill them full of holes
Some have reported that dusting food-grade diatomaceous earth along the ant’s pathways will cut through their exoskeleton and they will dehydrate and die.
Just buy a ant remover spray. Go to Home Depot and get them. You don't need to KILL the ants...
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