Orange oil can be purchased or you can make it on your own. The Orkin website suggests you simmer orange peels and collect the condensation. This is the oil you will use. Another way to create the orange oil is by filling a container with the citrus peelings and cover them with water. Let them sit for a couple of days and then strain off the liquid for your oil.
The Urban Harvest website suggests that molasses or compost tea may enhance the effect of orange oil on fire ant mounds.
A simple way to create a fire ant solution is by mixing 6 oz of orange oil, 1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses, a squeeze of liquid dish soap and water in a gallon jug. Audrey Pannell has been writing since the year She has written for AOL and eHow. She holds a Bachelor of Science in public administration from the University of Texas at Dallas and also completed a certification course to obtain a teaching certificate for early childhood through fourth grade.
Or, rather, the coffee grounds left behind after your coffee has brewed. Plus, the coffee will add nutrients to the soil, thus helping your plants in more ways than one! Simply scatter the coffee grounds directly onto the soil and leave it.
Repeat the process if you see more ants. Inside the house, mix a ratio of baking soda and white sugar. Sprinkle the mixture on a piece of sticky paper and set it in the problem area. The sugar will attract the ants, who will eat both the baking soda and the sugar. The baking soda will expand in their digestive system and kill the ants shortly after their last meal. For outside the home, sprinkle baking soda over the colony of ants and then pour vinegar over it.
Just like that volcano project I know you did in elementary school, the ant colony will erupt, thus ending their reign. Then I remembered a friend who was very sensitive to pesticides. She used diatomaceous earth. A line of the exoskeleton scratching and drying powder makes a barrier. If the ants cross it they are injured, dry up and die. Kind of like crop dusting—cool! It was a cheaper solution but messy and again took up too much space.
The little buggers just seemed to find a way around it anyway. At this point, I had a taste for death. I wanted to see them suffer and die. They violated the sanctity of my home.
They slept in my bed. The little creeps crossed my last strong hold. They touched my dessert.! They attacked my strawberry rhubarb pie! Time to turn to the big guns. Chemical warfare. I am a bit of an absent-minded professor. My background is as a lab rat. I worked in agricultural research in labs, libraries, and fields. I was a clinical lab technician and best of all, a phlebotomist the person that draws your blood. Yes, I enjoy torture. Oh, in the right setting that is, and only for the better good.
Like the good of my vegetable garden, my fruit trees and my pies. Really, you can check my greenhouse and barn. I have yet to create any Frankenstein-type plants or animals, but the temptation is there. Flubber might be a possibility. I live very remotely.
Besides, why spend the money when I can whip it up in my lab, I mean kitchen? I took mandarin peels, some rubbing alcohol, cloves and apricot oil, put it in an empty bottle and stored it in the cupboard for treating sore muscles. Additionally, I crushed the mandarin seeds and popped them in the bottles. That was an absent-minded professor afterthought—I wanted the strength of the orange oil, the essence.
That was last winter. Fast forward to spring. I went to the greenhouse to start propagation for the summer vegetable garden and found ants. Not just a few. I heat my all-solar greenhouse with compost. Waste vegetables from a local store go into three small compost piles inside the greenhouse. In other words, I heat my greenhouse with ant food!
My greenhouse is a geodesic dome. It has a wooden frame with an inch high perimeter framing member that makes a perfect highway to all three compost piles.
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