DIY Traps for Ants on Trees

Today, the chemical industry produces a tremendous amount of a variety of tools designed to combat ants. This list includes not only aerosols and gels, but also pencils and powders. All these preparations for bullying ants combines their insecticidal component. However, it is not always possible to use products of a similar composition. In this situation, traps and trapping belts from ants on fruit trees come to the rescue.

What is a trap?

Not wanting to "feed" the garden with chemistry, many summer residents are fight against ants folk remediesinventions. Making do-it-yourself traps for ants on trees is a snap. Here are a few options for such designs.

Tire trap

Every motorist has old car tires. Of these, it is very simple to build a pool, which pests will not be able to cross. It is enough to cut the tire along the center to get a couple of individual rings.

Around the tree or bush infected with ants, a ditch should be dug, the diameter of which will correspond to the cut ring. They put a tire over the tree trunk through the crown and fill the container with water. Such a water barrier will reliably protect the plantation from pests.

On a note!

If the crown of the tree is too large, then the rubber ring must be cut and installed in a similar way. To seal the joint, use adhesive tape or plasticine.

Adhesive tape trap

To get rid of ants in the trees, you can make another device for catching insects. For this, only tape is needed. Masking tape is wrapped around the trees like a belt. The protective film on top must be removed. Such a simple structure will serve as a good barrier to ants.

When using single-sided tape, it is wound on the barrel with the adhesive side up. Having reached the sticky belt, the legs of crawling insects are bogged down in it. The same ants that manage to escape from the "captivity" will leave this tree forever.

Features of the hunting belt

A hunting belt is a wide strip made of various materials (burlap, polyethylene, matting, rags or straw). The device eliminates ants and other insects that live on tree trunks. This mechanical method of plant protection is most effective for pests and poses absolutely no danger to human health (with the exception of poisonous hunting belts).

The principle of operation of the trapping belt is similar to the effect of adhesive tape for flies. Periodically, the belt is cleaned of insects adhering to it or replaced with a new design.

There are three types of hunting belts: sticky, dry and poisonous.

Sticky hunting belt

You can make a hunting belt for ants in the garden with gardening glue and thick paper. This option is effective even in wet weather, since this type of glue is moisture resistant and does not dry out for a long time.

A rectangular strip is cut out of paper, the length of which will correspond to the diameter of the trunk. The width of the belt is within 25 cm. Glue or resin is applied to one side of the strip.The sticky surface will serve as the outside of the future belt.

A sticky trap is attached to the wooden surface of the trunk at a distance of 0.5 m from the surface of the earth. So that they could not crawl under the belt ants, the cracks on top and bottom are covered with clay.

Dry hunting belt

The most common trap option for apple tree protection, pears and other fruit trees in the garden is a dry hunting belt. Usually gardeners prefer funnel belts or gates.

1. Making a funnel is a snap. It is usually made at a height of 0.5 m from the surface of the earth. To do this, you need thick paper. She should gird the tree trunk so that a cone skirt is obtained. It is fixed tightly with a rope, the remaining gaps are covered with clay, thereby preventing the penetration of ants.
2. The gate is no less popular trap garden black ants, which must be made of rubber. The manufacture of the structure will take no more than a quarter of an hour. From a dense rubber, the width of which is 25 cm, a rectangular piece is cut with a length equal to the circumference of the trunk.

Rubber is wound on a tree so that the structure is similar to a turn-down collar with curved edges. The ends of the strip are glued with rubber glue, and sunflower oil is poured into the resulting trap. Occasionally ant traps cleaned from insects and filled with sunflower oil.

On a note!

Hunting belts must be periodically changed as the tree grows.

Poison Hunting Belt

Despite the fact that poisonous belts are recognized as the most effective in the fight against ants, they are still not so often used on apple trees and other fruit trees. Many gardeners believe that poison is very dangerous for future fruits. However, this statement is not entirely true. Due to the fact that such devices are installed in the lower part of the trunk, poison is not able to leak into young shoots and apples.

To rid the site of ant attacks, it is necessary to cut a strip from burlap, similarly to the methods described above. The fabric is impregnated with poison and wrapped in a cone around the trunk. So that the insecticidal component does not evaporate, the upper part is wrapped with a film and strengthened with twine. Once in a poisonous area, ants die from toxic fumes.

Poisonous hunting belts - the most effective way to deal with ants building in the roots of the tree or spoiling the fruits caterpillars. However, do not forget that when organizing a poisonous device, you must use protective equipment (mask and gloves).