Chili seedlings are very delicate, and ants can damage their roots, so care must be taken. So what should you do if your chili seedlings have a lot of ants? Let's find out the solutions below.
1. Spray with soapy water
Cut soap into small pieces, dissolve it in water, then put it in a spray bottle and spray it on the leaves and stems to effectively get rid of ants.
2. Spray with white vinegar water
Mixing white vinegar and water and spraying the mixture on chili seedlings can effectively disrupt the ants' scent-sensing system, preventing them from being attracted to the chili seedlings.
3. Yellow stickers
If you stick yellow stickers around chili seedlings, ants will be attracted by the yellow color and get stuck.
4. Poison baiting
You can prepare some sweet things like brown sugar or cake, add insecticide to them, and place them in areas where ants are concentrated to lure and poison them.
5. Butter or olive oil
Applying butter or olive oil to the stems and leaves of chili seedlings will cause the ants' legs to stick to the butter or olive oil, thus controlling their numbers.
6. Ant trap
Place some ant traps near the chili seedlings. These traps usually spray long-lasting harmful gases, such as alumina powder and boric acid, to effectively control the ant population.
7. Spread silica.
Sprinkling silica on chili seedlings can prevent ants from entering.
