Re: Ants in the grass

I've had similar irritations with ants in my lawn Andy, same soil 
characteristics (near ****tsmouth).  Nothing chemical I have tried gets rid

of them for more than a couple of weeks.  Basically I think they like the 
type of soil.

I agree with the poster who said keep the grass cut, keep dispersing the 
displaced soil (I use a hose sometimes but a rake is also good) and just 
keep disrupting their work.  But if my experience is anything to go by, 
you'll not get rid of them.

Mike

"Andy Coles" <parol_coles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In the UK not much top soil and lots of clay underneath
>
> We have been attacked by ants who have invaded the grass.  We can see
them 
> and there are patches of top soil that has been pushed to the surface 
Dig 
> a little into this surface soil and you can see ants scurrying around
and 
> ant eggs laid there.
>
> I have injected some anti ant stuff 2 or 3 inches into the earth patches

> (pushed the straw of the anti ant stuff in until it reached firm soil
clay 
> underneath) and this is the stuff that ants will take back to the nest
and 
> hopefully kill the ants there.
>
> However I think I will loose the battle,  Firstly there are quite a lot
of 
> these earth mounds appearing in new places and in an area of a square
yard 
> or so sort of in the middle  of where the soil has been pushed to the 
> surface the grass is dying off as if it is a localised drought.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas what I can do to get rid of these pests.  I 
> was wondering if there was a Verdone sort of thing you could spray onto 
> the grass from a watering can but instead of killing weeds selectively 
> does the same but for ants.
>
> ANY ideas at all will be most welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>