Yucatan Farm and Ranch - Cal Treatment for ants other than leaf cutters

 

A few days ago, I posted about how to keep leaf cutter ants away from harming your plants, shrubs, and trees.   As I said, there is no way to get rid of them.  All you can do is keep the population down, and take some preventive steps to keep them from attacking.   But they will go on.

But there is something that can be done to keep the very tiny ants away from the fruit trees and shrubs, as the Mayans have done for many centuries.  It's a limestone powder that is mixed with water, and then put into a paste and applied directly to the trunks of the trees.  It doesn't harm the tree, and it doesn't harm the ants (though I'm not opposed to the latter).  What it does do is make the surface too slick and the ants cannot climb up or down.

Here's a very short video of my fruit tree orchard with a fresh coat of Cal.  It does wash off over time from the rain.  But generally, will last many months.  If it rains the same day, you apply it, and the paste has not dried it will wash off immediately.

Click here for short video