Ants nests in lawn

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• amancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736

  May 2021

  Water the lawn maybe? They won't like it, the lawn will like it and no chemicals involved. 

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• birdwood Posts: 3

  May 2021

  I have tried watering the lawn to nearly flooding it but they keep coming back. I have used ant powder after ant powder. I have over 50 red ant nests in my lawn and its driving me crazy. When we were away last summer they all decide to hatch with flying ants and our daughter used kettle after kettle of boiling hot water which did some good but also kills the grass around the area. Hopefully some good solutions will appear on here.

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• Singing Gardener Posts: 1,237

  May 2021

  Nematodes work well to persuade ants to move their nests but I'm not sure they would be effective if there are that many nests and they're quite expensive.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  May 2021

  Ants like dry conditions for their nests so just watering it once to a flooded state won't work.  You need to keep it constantly moist.
  
  Be aware also that while they may be living under your lawn they are not getting their food there so take steps to control aphids elsewhere as ants often feed on their honeydew.   Squish them with your fingers, blast them with a hosepipe spray, encourage predators such as ladybirds, lacewings, tits and sparrows.
  
     

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• a.a.p.15 Posts: 2

  May 2021

  Many thanks for these really helpful comments. Will get started this weekend putting as many as possible into play.

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