Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Controlling Leafcutter Ants Using Plastic Bags
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| Category | Agriculture,Crop Management,Organic crop Protection |
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| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Plastic bag |
| Details of Innovation | Literature reveals innumerable experiments conducted by farmers. This is one such from Latin America: A farmer-extensionist from Taulabe, Comayagua, Mercy Alalic Castaneda, told how elderly farmers had controlled leaf cutter ants by tying umbrella-shaped bags to the trees; the ant slips off when it starts to climb up the bag. |
Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors
| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Jeffery Bentley |
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| District | South Andaman |
| KVK District | NRM Division, CIARI, Port Blair |
| Address | South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Island |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| PIN Code | 744101 |
| PAS_1 | "Some seeds of vegetable crops may be treated with some kind of repellent material like camphor or kerosene whose strong smell will keep the white ants away." - http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Seed_Treatment |
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| PAS_2 | |
| Agro Ecological Zone | The Islands Region-XV,Port Blair |
| Other Community Practices | Getting rid of ants in vegetable garden https://gardeningtips.in/getting-rid-of-ants-in-vegetable-garden-a-full-guide |
| Practice ID | KNW0020000000226 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/160 |
| State | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| PIN Code | 744101 |