Can Soap and Water Safely ELIMINATE Ants in the Grass

Here’s my original ant control video where I had MUCH better results. https://youtu.be/Yz7OFr0NLoE

The reason why the dish soap method works is because it's a surfactant and Dawn's concentrate just happens to be great. Like a lot of insects, ants breathe through tiny openings in their abdomen called spiracles, they also have protective cuticles around their body and surfactants breaks the cuticle coating and at the same time smother the spiracles. This leads to the ants suffocating while water enters their body. Pouring the soap and water solution on top of their colony may not always lead to success because ants build their colonies in a way that some chambers act as an air pocket which prevents water from penetrating their tunnels, they also pick out certain grains of the soil that would absorb water and dry quickly which they would pile along their entrances and water hitting the convex dirt would bead and run off to the sides. To increase the chances of success, water the area to pre-moisten the soil once or twice in advance (adding humic acid is bonus) during the day when they are most active, this would rally all the ants back to the colony in an effort to try to fix any damages or fortify their tunnels and that would be the perfect time to apply your soap solution. Their tunnels are built in a way that increases soil porosity, this means the soil around the tunnels has many spaces or pores that can absorb water which adds an extra layer of protection for their colony and pre-moistening the soil could fill these pores with water and would make it harder for the soil to absorb more water. This would increase the chances of water penetrating the tunnels and overall increase the chances of wiping the entire colony. Love the channel btw! Subbed.

1:38 you need to flood the tunnels by injecting the soapy water until it reaches the nesting and breeding area where the queen and larva reside… you need to use a sprayer that you can put pressure onto and put nossle on exit and spray it under pressure into the tunnels until it sprays out, wait and do it again a few times

I use a liquid multi pesticide and Dawn dish soap mixed...I put it into a sprayer that hooks up to the Lawn water hose ....I spray and saturate the whole yard in about 10 minutes or less...It has been very Successful and I have a very beautiful yard today...

I think it’s because it only kills ants on contact. It doesn’t prevent ants which imo is why there were still ants in the yard because additional ants migrated over.

This method 100% works on wasp nests though, and kills them on contact. No more wasp spray. I do landscaping work, and haven't bought wasp spray for 5 years.

I have the talstar granular , n hasn’t got rid of them. Yard right on water n a lot of sand. So hard to get rid of them. Will treat n they go deep, n then come back

If you have sandy soil pour water on your yard every day ❤

What has hairy legs and eats ants? Uncles 😂

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Being a fellow Minnesotan, do you have recommendations for boxelder bug nests?