How to control ants on the vegetables you grow

Sometimes the vegetables you grow attract a lot of ants for some unknown reason, and sometimes the ants even carry insects up onto the plants, which is extremely annoying. What should you do when there are ants on the vegetables you grow? How should you deal with it?

1. What to do when there are ants on the vegetables you grow

When there are ants on the vegetables you grow, you can use highly effective, low-toxicity pyrethroid pesticides such as cyhalothrin or deltamethrin as a spray for control. If you do not want to use pesticides, you can make some insecticides yourself, for example, roast eggshells until yellow, crush them into powder and scatter it near ant nests or in places where ants frequently appear; or soak cigarette butts in water and pour the water into the soil; or mix lemon juice with hot water evenly and spray it in places where ants appear.

2. Reasons ants climb onto vegetables

Ants are social insects, mainly divided into female ants, male ants and worker ants. Their feeding habits are relatively complex, and they will eat both meat and plants. Generally, it is the worker ants that go out to forage. Sometimes ants climb onto vegetables in order to leave aphids on the plants, using the vegetables to feed the aphids and thereby obtain the honeydew secreted by the aphids.

Generally speaking, if there are not many ants, there is no great harm, but if the number climbing is too large, you should carefully inspect your vegetable garden.