Tried this a couple of days ago - I checked today and there was one ant left! My zucchini flowers would have a ton of ants when I cut them - today they were free of all ants! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, I set up 3 of these traps today in my garden and the ants immediately start to fill the containers. I was losing hope. Im so happy I stopped by to watch this video. Blessings to you🙏🏻
I have an outdoor kitchen...I had ants get on my stove... I used this method and no more ants.. I put the jug on top of the stove in the back where they were coming in... Viola! No more ants... In stead of leaving the jugs lying around I decided to hand them in plastic grocery bags in each area of my garden ... I rarely see any anymore....but when I do see new ones I make a new solution and put it out.. This is such a great idea.. thanks so much for sharing it with us..
Thank you for the great method of deterring ants. My garden was overrun with them and I set out two bottles like this and within a week I haven't seen a single ant in my garden. Love your videos, please keep them coming!
@@ebonyperkins4129 Borax is the best - they carry it to their nest and the entire colony dies. Unfortunately our government in Canada decided 2 years ago that Borax may be harmful to Canadians and pulled all Borax products off the shelves.
@@ebonyperkins4129 That sort of thing will work. I do a little different to that. Instead of Borax, I use baking powder, add some sugar for the sweetness, then make a paste with warm water to a paste. Then when it is cool, l put a single drop in different locations, especially along their tracks, and as they eat it the baking powder makes them blow up.
This is a brilliant idea and I have pets so this helps a lot. I tried it in 3 of my gardens and within hours the ants were feeding. I also attracted some troublesome beetles. It’s a great method to keep ants eating but not your plants. My basil and sunflowers are saved!😊🌻🌱
I use oatmeal, I put it in the food processor to make it small, but not dust and the ants love it, you can see that they start to pick it up immediately, but to be sure, I do detective and look for the nest and put there also. What happens is that they eat it and they do not know what fiber is, it expands in their stomach and they die.
Well, guess I learned something. I wasn't worried about the ants where my pepper plants are. Thinking that ants don't eat leaves/plants. I didn't know they carry aphids. Thanks for this video.
Same! I use diatomaceous, but the moisture of the night and other ppl wetting my garden prevented some of my efforts. This might do the trick. I feel better. I will try this method today!! Also, I’m grateful for his soft quiet noise...very relaxing.
You have such great ideas. I love the water bottle idea because other people recommend a Mason jar and having to poke holes in the lid. This way you can just toss the whole bottle when no longer using it
Thank you! The aphids destroyed my peas, and yesterday, I was out picking long beans and found this funky stuff on two of the beans and ants all over the place! Part of the residue from aphid farming...it was sticky when I brushed it off! Went back out today more ants! I'm getting this taken care of tomorrow before I lose my beans. Aphids have been horrible this year and I've never seen anything like it!
My mom always used a bucket with soapy water and would sprinkle the mixture all over her outdoor plants and rose bushes to keep aphids and ants away works great 👍🏻
Yep I use 3cups water,6-8 ounces alcohol , and 2Table spoons dish soap.. and spray top and underneath of leaves .. I have to apply it after every rain... but it works, just becareful not to use on early buds, it might burn them.. but once established , It's been a great help to me, fighting white fly..that want to eat my early eggplant.. I set back my eggplant when I used it too close to top growing early buds.. they pulled through.. and it's great for the soil around the plant as well..🙃🙂
Great. I did something similar in a small bowl on my deck. They just wouldn't stop. It really helped. But I like the bottle idea much better. Some ant got on my last year and thought I was dinner. In about a minute, my one are had whelps all over it. In about 2 minutes it was burning. I was under attack. Never dealt with that here in 30 yrs. Ran in, rinsed my arm off and rubbed wintergreen alcohol on it. I felt so much better. When I came in for good I put some Melaleuca cream on my arm and never saw another whelp the next morning. Using a similar mixture to this one, I stopped seeing them in the house as much. They were starting to take over. Store products didn't last long, may even seemed to just feed them. I was getting worried. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
found were the ants were coming from, just mixed sugar and borax dry, put it down. the ants carried the sugar and borax back to their nest and they died or just left. no more ants.
Sprinkling cinnamon powder on the plant, sends ants packing fast and keeps them away. Of course you have to reapply after rain. Some other pests hate it too. It slowed down a bean caterpillar problem I had, but it's not 100%. Might work better before they arrive. Idk. I'm going to add these to my garden too! Thanks! 💖
That's the primary benefit of this ingenious bottle design IMO, keeps working even after rain. Cinnamon, coffee grounds, diatomaceous earth, etc. all quickly become ineffective after rain.
I am making some of these right now! I have so many miserable ants that have taken over my potting bench, so much that I have to hose it off before I can use the space! Thank you very much for this video!
Nashi pear is our favourite tree here and unreal in a walnut and cranberry salad.. Fantastic vocals and thank you for not being loud when explaining the ant trap.
If you don’t get granules, try a cotton ball soaked in liquid. they”ll bite some off and carry it back to the nest. If you use too much borax they’ll die before they get back. But you can put it close to nest or something. This is a great method, with the bottle! Thanks!
I don’t know the proportions, but there is a sweet spot (no pun intended) for the ratio of Boric acid (Borax) and sweetener: you want them to take the poison back to their nest, but like he said, get it wrong and it kills them on the spot.
I read 1 T borax, 4 T sugar, 1/4 c water for liquid version. Same but only a couple drops of water for dry that they’ll take back to the queen and other “family” members. Haven’t tested it.
I bought some borax but haven't yet made traps. I like how you use the bottles. I have cats in the neighborhood, so this should help them from getting the borax. Thank you Khang.
Just make sure that the only thing that can get in are ants.. sometimes if you make the holes too big you end up killing butterflies, frogs, lizards ladybugs and our other friends in the garden.. a small jar with holes poked in the lids works great!!😃
Hi; I have the same problem with my houseplants. Then I found a solution by using a few drops of dish soap, a couple drops of cooking oil then add water to a spray bottle. I used it to spray the plants every time I see aphids, it works well. The bottle must be shaken well so that the oil will be mixing well before using. The aphids just die and dried out and it never came back.
This is clever. I have used this inside my house, with a liquid mix of this solution on cotton wool balls and laid in plastic water bottle tops.... Never thought to use the whole bottle in the garden like this.... I am going to have a go tomorrow because I hate spraying my plants..... Thanks for this amazing tip. 🙏🙏🙏
Soap is worthless until you kill the ants. They just replace the dead aphids as Khang Starr said. I killed the ants and aphids, mealy bugs, white flies, and psyllids did not come back. The ants bring them keep beneficials from destroying them.
@Mrs. Roper Use a potassium soap, like Safer soap for your plants. It is not a detergent like Dawn. When I am using strong vinegar to kill weeds I use Ajax since it is much cheaper and a stronger detergent.
Wow! Thanks for the insight on the ant/aphid relationship. This is so doable. Now, instead of throwing it away, I know what I can do with that old honey! TFS...
Maybe somebody already commented about this but Terro ant killer at HDepot I have been using for 25 years. Nothing but borax and sugar in a liquid suspension and proper ratio.. The point is to have them take the liquid back to the nest, so you can sit and just watch them drink for several minutes until they have all they can carry and then they head back to the nest alerting the other ants where the liquid is. So all the worker ants come one day and take all of the tiny amount of liquid I put out. The next day there are only a few confused stragglers that don't know what to do but the whole colony is killed through dehydration IF they get back to the nest. Terro obviously has perfected the ratio. Killing them in your bottle eventually alerts the ants that they should not go there. One tiny bottle of Terro ($4) would last for years controlling ants in the house. In the garden I pick a dry day and put out some so that it will not contact the soil in the container, once they find it (I watch their path to the plant but anywhere at the base works) all the ants from that colony will be destroyed. Works with any sweet eating ant.
I'm going to try this method using mason jars. I drilled holes in the top and buried it up to the lid in the soil. (Goal was to hide from the dogs for safety.) Has anyone else used mason jars?
2019 now July but wow this is phenomenal I’m going to put them in a couple of hibiscus plants that seem to just call every aunt within a mile to come loose in there and let’s hope that I can get rid of them thank you for this. And I hope to see more videos from you thank you!
I definitely want to give this a try. One question though: Are bees at all attracted to this mixture? Just want to be absolutely sure that it won’t harm them. Thanks! 🙂
@@holykissme the chipmunk is to busy eating your seeds, bulbs and roots. The squirrels ate happy to eat the sunflowers and berries before anyone else gets them. But I've had bear take them, and smash them up when they realize it doesn't taste so good.
I hear you...we "must" protect our bees! I would use a small container from sour cream....drill small holes around it and place mixture in there! No bees can get in!! Even drilling small holes in this bottle would work better so no bees get in!
This is a great idea and I'm definitely interested in trying this out in my own gardens Edit: thanks for sharing with us, and I've subscribed to your channel
6 to 1 ratio and funnels work really well for those small openings!! thanks so much for this. I was beginning to think I has lost the growing touch. 😳😆
This is such a great way to put down this solution to treat ants. I am so grateful to Khang for sharing. We bought some borax on line and I didn't know how to put it down without my dog eating the stuff. If anyone ever says Sluggo isn't toxic to animals don't believe them. Unless you want to spend the night with a salivating dog in the vet. hospital. This is such a great solution. And thanks for the insight on the aphids too. The comment were very interesting to read as well. Thanks for all those thoughts expressed here and all the extra info. Jnentti.
I have used a bottle like this for an ant trap as well except for what I do is drill holes in the lid that way there's no chance of the bottle rolling over and getting dirt in the hole when it's windy outside I never have to worry about adjusting it.
I use a version of this around my home as well. It works great! It scared me the first time I did it tho because it attracted SO MANY ants the next day, and the next.. and then they were ALL gone and didn't come back for the rest of the season. Great cheap trick!
Nice video. I will try this method. Another way to get rid of aphids is to buy some ladybugs at your local nursery and let them go on the plants that have aphids. Ladybugs love to eat aphids. Thanks for sharing.
Cindy M - Yes ladybugs work great but they are unpredictable and can all fly away for any reason.. Ant bait is really the best way to hopefully get it to the Queen and killing her will stop ant production and hopefully the rest of the thousands of workers..
I did this a few years ago (ants were invading my outdoor box turtle habitat). I was concerned that beneficial insects might become victims. I don’t recall what the size was, but I did some research and ended up using canning jars and using screen mesh - of a size that lets ants in, but keeps bees (etc.) from getting in. PS, you can do a GOOGLE search to find out the correct proportions for the boric acid and sugar.
Thank you so much for sharing. Going to try this Tomorrow if I can find some borax here in PH. The whole place is infested here, been spraying insectcide and vinegar for months, and my cucumber and tomato plants now also infested. This looks promissing,
Great tip, thanks so much! 👍🏻 By the way, you should think about starting another CZcams channel or Insta just for your voice. SO calming, so relaxing. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I used to use powder sugar and borax around the perimeter of my home, but the draw back is when it rained or was very windy would wash away what I placed, am going to try the bottle method for around the house in hopes of not having to replace as often.
Believe it or not, Borax is not deadly for humans. You can take an eighth of a teaspoon a day, dissolved in water as supplement. Then the boron becomes the beneficial form for us when it hits our stomach, when property dissolved in water, and not in large quantities of course; enough is enough, and more is NOT better. Yes, that’s good old-fashioned laundry Borax, it contains some trace minerals we need. Just know that it’s not going to hurt you if used the same funnel for cooking or if you ingested some. It could irritate your throat if you tried to consume it dry, or took too much, but in a glass of water, 1/8 tsp., not tablespoon, is just fine. I find hot water works best. And yep, I’m alive still, though I haven’t used it as consistently as other people do. People get confused by this, saying, “omg, it’s ant poison!,” but it may shock them to learn that we actually have a different physiology than ants (not to mention we are so, so, so much bigger than they are!)... and any other species, too, as they have different physiologies from us. We’re actually not physiologically interchangeable after all. That’s why we have to be careful what we feed our pets, but it also means that everything that poisons them doesn’t necessarily poison us:)
Great idea. I use this in my house but never thought to use a water bottle in the garden. I guess the ants figure this is easier than farming aphids. Just goes to show no free lunch is really free😁🌷
If you have carnivorous ants, I have had success mixing borax with a little canned cat food. Also, sprinkled lots of mint from herb drawer along back of kitchen cupboards to repel ants. Worked great.
If you use dawn dishwashing liquid in a squirt bottle with water it won't hurt your tree but it gets rid of aphids. Had the issue with my roses and I still use it for other plants
Thank you so much for this ant trap. I have noticed that I am getting a lot of ants and aphids on some of my beans and leafy green crops. I wanted something that would not harm the beneficial insects in my garden but be effective against those two pests. Hopefully this will do the trick. I believe slugs are getting them at night as well and I plan to use beer traps. Any suggestions for slugs that is organic and less harmful to pollinators?
Victoria have you tried beer in saucers. Works every time. Have never seen dead bees from it. Hope not, I LOVE pollinators and plant flowers just for them.
When I had a garden, I would use really hot water and fairy liquid, bathed the plant. They would die so quickly and don't return. I did only organic gardening.
Tried this a couple of days ago - I checked today and there was one ant left! My zucchini flowers would have a ton of ants when I cut them - today they were free of all ants! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, I set up 3 of these traps today in my garden and the ants immediately start to fill the containers. I was losing hope. Im so happy I stopped by to watch this video. Blessings to you🙏🏻
I have an outdoor kitchen...I had ants get on my stove... I used this method and no more ants.. I put the jug on top of the stove in the back where they were coming in...
Viola! No more ants...
In stead of leaving the jugs lying around I decided to hand them in plastic grocery bags in each area of my garden ... I rarely see any anymore....but when I do see new ones I make a new solution and put it out..
This is such a great idea.. thanks so much for sharing it with us..
Thank you for the great method of deterring ants. My garden was overrun with them and I set out two bottles like this and within a week I haven't seen a single ant in my garden. Love your videos, please keep them coming!
I have been fighting ants for years and have tried everything. This worked better then anything! Thank you!
Does it really work? I just bought a house and am starting a garden.
@CLureCo awesome. Im just tired of products that just move them from one spot to the next. I'm SUPER excited to try this method. Thank you so much
Doing it tomorrow!
@@ebonyperkins4129 Borax is the best - they carry it to their nest and the entire colony dies. Unfortunately our government in Canada decided 2 years ago that Borax may be harmful to Canadians and pulled all Borax products off the shelves.
@@ebonyperkins4129 That sort of thing will work. I do a little different to that. Instead of Borax, I use baking powder, add some sugar for the sweetness, then make a paste with warm water to a paste. Then when it is cool, l put a single drop in different locations, especially along their tracks, and as they eat it the baking powder makes them blow up.
This is a brilliant idea and I have pets so this helps a lot. I tried it in 3 of my gardens and within hours the ants were feeding. I also attracted some troublesome beetles. It’s a great method to keep ants eating but not your plants. My basil and sunflowers are saved!😊🌻🌱
I use oatmeal, I put it in the food processor to make it small, but not dust and the ants love it, you can see that they start to pick it up immediately, but to be sure, I do detective and look for the nest and put there also. What happens is that they eat it and they do not know what fiber is, it expands in their stomach and they die.
Great idea!! I dust my egg plant with a little self rising flour , they eat it and blow up..use it for white fly as well..
Wow, I have plenty of oatmeal! That's it? Just powdered oatmeal will kill them?
@@IjeomaThePlantMamaI believe so, but to be sure google ants and oatmeal, the web is a plethora of information 💙🕊️🍵 have a peaceful day everyone
Hi I will try the oatmeal because I have a lot for dogs and they love to play with bottles thank you so much God bless
@@IjeomaThePlantMama Did you try the just oatmeal?
Borax is naturally derived and fairly harmless. Much less harmful than commercial ant killers, that can definitely harm animals. Thanks for the tip.
Arsenic is also naturally derived, is that also harmless?
@@HollyOak so is ricin and cyanide.....hmmmm...inteesting.
Well, guess I learned something. I wasn't worried about the ants where my pepper plants are. Thinking that ants don't eat leaves/plants. I didn't know they carry aphids. Thanks for this video.
I’ve been wondering where these nasty aphids come from also. They sure are big on teamwork! Lol
Depend on the ant… they are buried inside my veg bed and destroy everything I plant there. Very agressive too!
I WAS LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION TO THIS ALL OF LAST SUMMER! YOUR VID CURED MY DEPRESSION!!
LOL
😁
Same! I use diatomaceous, but the moisture of the night and other ppl wetting my garden prevented some of my efforts. This might do the trick. I feel better. I will try this method today!! Also, I’m grateful for his soft quiet noise...very relaxing.
You have such great ideas. I love the water bottle idea because other people recommend a Mason jar and having to poke holes in the lid. This way you can just toss the whole bottle when no longer using it
Thank you! The aphids destroyed my peas, and yesterday, I was out picking long beans and found this funky stuff on two of the beans and ants all over the place! Part of the residue from aphid farming...it was sticky when I brushed it off! Went back out today more ants!
I'm getting this taken care of tomorrow before I lose my beans. Aphids have been horrible this year and I've never seen anything like it!
My mom always used a bucket with soapy water and would sprinkle the mixture all over her outdoor plants and rose bushes to keep aphids and ants away works great 👍🏻
Yep I use 3cups water,6-8 ounces alcohol , and 2Table spoons dish soap.. and spray top and underneath of leaves .. I have to apply it after every rain... but it works, just becareful not to use on early buds, it might burn them.. but once established , It's been a great help to me, fighting white fly..that want to eat my early eggplant.. I set back my eggplant when I used it too close to top growing early buds.. they pulled through.. and it's great for the soil around the plant as well..🙃🙂
Rains daily here during the summer so kind of useless for some people.
Yep 😊 that the ancient way in the Caribbean 😂 but I'll give this method a try
Can’t wait to try this, I have a huge problem with the ants and aphids on my okra and eggplants. Thank You:)
Great. I did something similar in a small bowl on my deck. They just wouldn't stop. It really helped. But I like the bottle idea much better. Some ant got on my last year and thought I was dinner. In about a minute, my one are had whelps all over it. In about 2 minutes it was burning. I was under attack. Never dealt with that here in 30 yrs. Ran in, rinsed my arm off and rubbed wintergreen alcohol on it. I felt so much better. When I came in for good I put some Melaleuca cream on my arm and never saw another whelp the next morning.
Using a similar mixture to this one, I stopped seeing them in the house as much. They were starting to take over. Store products didn't last long, may even seemed to just feed them. I was getting worried. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
I think you must mean, "welts"?
That sounded like a terrible attack. Perhaps you've had fire ants move into your area... Ugh.
found were the ants were coming from, just mixed sugar and borax dry, put it down. the ants carried the sugar and borax back to their nest and they died or just left. no more ants.
I’m glad I saw this. So simple, cheap and effective. Thank you very much!
Great information and so soft spoken. Hearing you talk made me feel calm. Thank you.
Sprinkling cinnamon powder on the plant, sends ants packing fast and keeps them away. Of course you have to reapply after rain. Some other pests hate it too. It slowed down a bean caterpillar problem I had, but it's not 100%. Might work better before they arrive. Idk. I'm going to add these to my garden too! Thanks! 💖
Do you sprinkle the cinnamon on the leaves, or the ground surrounding the plant?
That's the primary benefit of this ingenious bottle design IMO, keeps working even after rain. Cinnamon, coffee grounds, diatomaceous earth, etc. all quickly become ineffective after rain.
cinamon just keeps them away so theyll just migrate to the next plant. Sometimes doesn't even work.
My concern is my plants will cinnamon affect them?
@@mayseventy4466 you could test on one leaf to see. 🙂 It never hurt my peppers or green beans, nor their produce.
I am making some of these right now! I have so many miserable ants that have taken over my potting bench, so much that I have to hose it off before I can use the space! Thank you very much for this video!
I’m totally going to try this!!! I found that ants were building their nests inside of my container veggie plants
Thanks for this... I watched the whole thing just listening to your voice, it's so calming... but will certainly use this trick!
Great tutorial. Had a bit of an ant problem myself and this seems to be doing the trick! Thank you!
Nashi pear is our favourite tree here and unreal in a walnut and cranberry salad..
Fantastic vocals and thank you for not being loud when explaining the ant trap.
If you don’t get granules, try a cotton ball soaked in liquid. they”ll bite some off and carry it back to the nest. If you use too much borax they’ll die before they get back. But you can put it close to nest or something. This is a great method, with the bottle! Thanks!
I don’t know the proportions, but there is a sweet spot (no pun intended) for the ratio of Boric acid (Borax) and sweetener: you want them to take the poison back to their nest, but like he said, get it wrong and it kills them on the spot.
You can GOOGLE the proportions.
I read 1 T borax, 4 T sugar, 1/4 c water for liquid version. Same but only a couple drops of water for dry that they’ll take back to the queen and other “family” members. Haven’t tested it.
Dude! Thank you, they were all through my vegetable patch and worn bin, they flocked to it within minutes.
The ending of the vid was real cool. You let us watch the action. Awesome!
You can also use DE, Diametatious Earth,sugar and water. Works with your system equally well. Thanks for the idea. It probably saved my garden.
How do you use the D.E? Do u just sprinkle it around each plant or do u mix it with something?
I thought DE only worked when dry? So it works also if ants consume it?
Diametatious earth is used to cut the ants when they walk on it its very sharp shards however its not poison.
@@slc4226 you are correct only when it is dry will it be effective
I bought some borax but haven't yet made traps. I like how you use the bottles. I have cats in the neighborhood, so this should help them from getting the borax. Thank you Khang.
Borax/boron it's fine for human and animals I take it and give it to my dogs as well,helps with arthritis
Corn meal also works
Just make sure that the only thing that can get in are ants.. sometimes if you make the holes too big you end up killing butterflies, frogs, lizards ladybugs and our other friends in the garden.. a small jar with holes poked in the lids works great!!😃
Thank you! Finally a way to protect my hibiscus plant without using chemicals.
Thank you so much. I love the way you teach. You have the gift. You instinctively knew what people would have questions about. Thanks again.
Hi; I have the same problem with my houseplants. Then I found a solution by using a few drops of dish soap, a couple drops of cooking oil then add water to a spray bottle. I used it to spray the plants every time I see aphids, it works well. The bottle must be shaken well so that the oil will be mixing well before using. The aphids just die and dried out and it never came back.
I have the same problem .can I used this in my fruit trees? Thanks
Thanks for this tip. Im going to try this..
Use 2 TBs neem oil a little dish soap per gallon of warm water instead of regular oil, kills fungal problems also.
you can also use/add nutrasweet(aspartame) , the blue packetsm, it was originally developed as an ant neurotoxin.
entomologytoday.org/2017/03/28/study-finds-sweeteners-lead-fire-ants-to-a-bitter-end/
kam175 wow what is it doing to humans then? It’s in so many foods!
Great, I use to use it in my coffee !!
Don’t use that crap! Yes, it’s a neurotoxin! Do not consume it or anything that has it in it!
Maybe that's why some people got seizures and headaches from the crap. I never use it!
@@CRM0618
i have been a gardener all my 68 years and have NEVER SEEN NOR HEARD OF ANTS CARRYING APHIDS AROUND.
this guy is off his rocker.
Accident
get a magnifying glass, you will see a backpack on the ants that holds three or four aphids.
Obviously ur not an Organic farmer.
This is clever. I have used this inside my house, with a liquid mix of this solution on cotton wool balls and laid in plastic water bottle tops.... Never thought to use the whole bottle in the garden like this.... I am going to have a go tomorrow because I hate spraying my plants..... Thanks for this amazing tip. 🙏🙏🙏
Huh I tired of using borax and honey worked until it got more solid. Thanks for the idea of watering it down with sugar.
We have been using a spray bottle with water and dawn dish washing detergent . Spray on aphids.it takes a few minutes and they die.
Came down here to leave this comment. ;)
@Mrs. Roper Sorry, you should search online for the right concentration. Also, i rinse my plants with water once the aphids are dead.
Soap is worthless until you kill the ants. They just replace the dead aphids as Khang Starr said. I killed the ants and aphids, mealy bugs, white flies, and psyllids did not come back. The ants bring them keep beneficials from destroying them.
Spray with whole milk, supposed to smother aphids.
@Mrs. Roper Use a potassium soap, like Safer soap for your plants. It is not a detergent like Dawn. When I am using strong vinegar to kill weeds I use Ajax since it is much cheaper and a stronger detergent.
They can carry it in the back to the nest and destroy the rest- quote of the year
Same with corn meal...
Wow! Thanks for the insight on the ant/aphid relationship. This is so doable. Now, instead of throwing it away, I know what I can do with that old honey! TFS...
Thanks! A funnel would make your pouring easier.
christina joseph your a funnel
Can always just roll up a piece of paper to make a disposable funnel 😏
Hey Khang Starr … A funnel would make life much easier getting powders and liquids into your bottles etc.
Maybe somebody already commented about this but Terro ant killer at HDepot I have been using for 25 years. Nothing but borax and sugar in a liquid suspension and proper ratio.. The point is to have them take the liquid back to the nest, so you can sit and just watch them drink for several minutes until they have all they can carry and then they head back to the nest alerting the other ants where the liquid is. So all the worker ants come one day and take all of the tiny amount of liquid I put out. The next day there are only a few confused stragglers that don't know what to do but the whole colony is killed through dehydration IF they get back to the nest. Terro obviously has perfected the ratio. Killing them in your bottle eventually alerts the ants that they should not go there. One tiny bottle of Terro ($4) would last for years controlling ants in the house. In the garden I pick a dry day and put out some so that it will not contact the soil in the container, once they find it (I watch their path to the plant but anywhere at the base works) all the ants from that colony will be destroyed. Works with any sweet eating ant.
This is the best tip ever! I’ll have to try this in my bean containers tomorrow.
I'm going to try this method using mason jars. I drilled holes in the top and buried it up to the lid in the soil. (Goal was to hide from the dogs for safety.) Has anyone else used mason jars?
No but it's a great idea..
Great tip!
I yell..."Bad Ants"!!! 😆
Thanks Khang!!!
Thanks for your great comment 👍
I tried it yesterday and already have ants in the bottle 😁👏🏻👏🏻👍🏼😍!!! So cool and thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
I tried it n wow....it works.thank you....blessings
2019 now July but wow this is phenomenal I’m going to put them in a couple of hibiscus plants that seem to just call every aunt within a mile to come loose in there and let’s hope that I can get rid of them thank you for this. And I hope to see more videos from you thank you!
I definitely want to give this a try. One question though: Are bees at all attracted to this mixture? Just want to be absolutely sure that it won’t harm them. Thanks! 🙂
yes they are attracted. But make holes in bottle just small enough for ants, so that nothing else can enter.
Will this accidentally kill Chipmunks and squirrels?
@@holykissme the chipmunk is to busy eating your seeds, bulbs and roots. The squirrels ate happy to eat the sunflowers and berries before anyone else gets them. But I've had bear take them, and smash them up when they realize it doesn't taste so good.
Watch out for humming birds if you make it too watery.
I hear you...we "must" protect our bees! I would use a small container from sour cream....drill small holes around it and place mixture in there! No bees can get in!! Even drilling small holes in this bottle would work better so no bees get in!
Thank you for sharing this helpful technique!
Wow...helps with my aunt's problem...thanks for sharing....
Aunt?
@@melindamills6995 -- Woosh!
Great solution
Great Contribution.
Thank You.
The simplest and the best of idea
This is the only video on YT that isn’t rambling nonsense solutions.
This is a great idea and I'm definitely interested in trying this out in my own gardens
Edit: thanks for sharing with us, and I've subscribed to your channel
Put it under something so it won't fill with water and leak out when it rains.
This looks like a great easy to achieve solution, will try this, thanks for sharing. 👍🏻
6 to 1 ratio and funnels work really well for those small openings!! thanks so much for this. I was beginning to think I has lost the growing touch. 😳😆
This is such a great way to put down this solution to treat ants. I am so grateful to Khang for sharing. We bought some borax on line and I didn't know how to put it down without my dog eating the stuff. If anyone ever says Sluggo isn't toxic to animals don't believe them. Unless you want to spend the night with a salivating dog in the vet. hospital. This is such a great solution. And thanks for the insight on the aphids too. The comment were very interesting to read as well. Thanks for all those thoughts expressed here and all the extra info. Jnentti.
Ants carry lots of worker bugs like piviks & tiny wood lice
The ants we have fly to- from pots. I will try this.
When I see ants crawling up my trees, that tells me to spray for aphids. Aphids are vampires. Kill every single one before they multiply.
Thnx for this great tip! I spread baking soda on the ground and it kills bugs-especially roaches. Costco size bags are very affordable .
I have been looking this answer this year, thank you! God Bless.
thanks-they are terrible this year, in the house and garden.
Great idea. Thank you. I will try it in my garden.
I have used a bottle like this for an ant trap as well except for what I do is drill holes in the lid that way there's no chance of the bottle rolling over and getting dirt in the hole when it's windy outside I never have to worry about adjusting it.
Great idea to keep pets out. Good advice, grateful. Thank you
Here in Florida they'll damn near carry the plant away ! Using 2 liter bottle and if that doesn't work it's time to buy an Ant Eater ! 👍
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I use a version of this around my home as well. It works great! It scared me the first time I did it tho because it attracted SO MANY ants the next day, and the next.. and then they were ALL gone and didn't come back for the rest of the season. Great cheap trick!
Hit by accident 😫
Omg that’s what I’m afraid of seeing so many at one time.
Nice video. I will try this method. Another way to get rid of aphids is to buy some ladybugs at your local nursery and let them go on the plants that have aphids. Ladybugs love to eat aphids. Thanks for sharing.
Cindy M - Yes ladybugs work great but they are unpredictable and can all fly away for any reason..
Ant bait is really the best way to hopefully get it to the Queen and killing her will stop ant production and hopefully the rest of the thousands of workers..
Thank you for the tip,I have a lot of ants in my garden eating up my plants, I sure will make this concoction hoping it will work.
Wow, thanks I wondered about the ants. I Though they were eating the aphids, feel like an idiot boy they had me fooled. Lol
I thought that as well, so don't feel bad.
You made me laugh out loud 😆
@@hatter2mad 😂I fell for that too now to make some of that ant rid.
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Just make sure to keep the hole in the bottle small enough that bees can’t get in.
Thank you!!!! watch my only video
That's right.. We don't want to kill the bees. We need the bees...
Borax is good for certain greens too so you are fertilizing at the same time
I did this a few years ago (ants were invading my outdoor box turtle habitat). I was concerned that beneficial insects might become victims. I don’t recall what the size was, but I did some research and ended up using canning jars and using screen mesh - of a size that lets ants in, but keeps bees (etc.) from getting in. PS, you can do a GOOGLE search to find out the correct proportions for the boric acid and sugar.
Yet another great tip! Thanks man!
wow that blew my mind and explains my situation. thanks khang.
Thank you so much for sharing. Going to try this Tomorrow if I can find some borax here in PH. The whole place is infested here, been spraying insectcide and vinegar for months, and my cucumber and tomato plants now also infested. This looks promissing,
Great tip, thanks so much! 👍🏻 By the way, you should think about starting another CZcams channel or Insta just for your voice. SO calming, so relaxing. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you! Really needed this information.
Thank you for the needed info! Blessings
I used to use powder sugar and borax around the perimeter of my home, but the draw back is when it rained or was very windy would wash away what I placed, am going to try the bottle method for around the house in hopes of not having to replace as often.
SIMPLE TO THE POINT AND REALLY WORKS.......Thank you.
You could always use a funnel dedicated just to that project. :) Love you videos and thanks so much for sharing this!
lol I have a few but could not find them when I was making this video.
Believe it or not, Borax is not deadly for humans. You can take an eighth of a teaspoon a day, dissolved in water as supplement. Then the boron becomes the beneficial form for us when it hits our stomach, when property dissolved in water, and not in large quantities of course; enough is enough, and more is NOT better. Yes, that’s good old-fashioned laundry Borax, it contains some trace minerals we need. Just know that it’s not going to hurt you if used the same funnel for cooking or if you ingested some. It could irritate your throat if you tried to consume it dry, or took too much, but in a glass of water, 1/8 tsp., not tablespoon, is just fine. I find hot water works best. And yep, I’m alive still, though I haven’t used it as consistently as other people do.
People get confused by this, saying, “omg, it’s ant poison!,” but it may shock them to learn that we actually have a different physiology than ants (not to mention we are so, so, so much bigger than they are!)... and any other species, too, as they have different physiologies from us. We’re actually not physiologically interchangeable after all. That’s why we have to be careful what we feed our pets, but it also means that everything that poisons them doesn’t necessarily poison us:)
Thank you for sharing.
Great idea. I use this in my house but never thought to use a water bottle in the garden. I guess the ants figure this is easier than farming aphids. Just goes to show no free lunch is really free😁🌷
In Arizona, Mount Lemmon Marigold will control aphids ( perennial)
This perennial bush is about 4 feet wide and 3 ft High. Even when it's not blooming it is fragrant.
Great results. Greeting from Malta-Europe. xxx
THANKS! I[ve been looking for something without poisons, to use and this appears to be just the ticket. THANK YOU.
If you have carnivorous ants, I have had success mixing borax with a little canned cat food. Also, sprinkled lots of mint from herb drawer along back of kitchen cupboards to repel ants. Worked great.
If you use dawn dishwashing liquid in a squirt bottle with water it won't hurt your tree but it gets rid of aphids. Had the issue with my roses and I still use it for other plants
I love this idea. Gonna give it a try :). Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much for this ant trap. I have noticed that I am getting a lot of ants and aphids on some of my beans and leafy green crops. I wanted something that would not harm the beneficial insects in my garden but be effective against those two pests. Hopefully this will do the trick. I believe slugs are getting them at night as well and I plan to use beer traps. Any suggestions for slugs that is organic and less harmful to pollinators?
Victoria have you tried beer in saucers. Works every time. Have never seen dead bees from it. Hope not, I LOVE pollinators and plant flowers just for them.
This definitely does work. I like the water bottle method. I’ll definitely do this tomorrow. Thank you for sharing
When I had a garden, I would use really hot water and fairy liquid, bathed the plant. They would die so quickly and don't return. I did only organic gardening.
Khang I like watching ur videos bcos u make a follow up in the same vid. Continue with the Good work
It works. I used shampoo from dollar tree & sugar cane. Nice trap. 😊
Will try as I can’t get borax, thanks.
@@wudgee you welcome. :)
great idea! Small hole also protcts bees from feeding! well done.
Spread wood ash around plant soil. Easy one, effective too.