{"id":245,"date":"2017-02-11T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-02-11T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T12:59:48","slug":"how-to-use-diatoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/how-to-use-diatoms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Diatoms"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shovel<\/a>
View of Ant Pile Four on the outside wall of the garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a continuation of yesterday’s<\/a> story<\/span><\/p>\n

Ant pile four was much larger outside the garage. Action was required. \u00a0This pile needed the full Diatom treatment.\u00a0 <\/span>The Diatom Treatment steps are easy to remember: spray, stir, spray. \u00a0For best results wait a few moment between repeating the steps so that you can see where ant activity is the most intense. \u00a0Repeat the steps\u00a0until you are satisfied. \u00a0Notice I didn’t say until “ants are gone” or until “all activity has ceased”. \u00a0Those are not reasonable expectations. \u00a0What you can expect is that a swarming mass of ants is transformed into a few confused ants wandering around.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diatoms Use Steps, repeat as necessary:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Spray<\/span><\/span>\n

    \"White<\/a>
    Spray top of ant pile before disturbing ants<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  2. Stir<\/span><\/span>\n
    \"Tip<\/a>
    Use a shovel to turn the pile over and expose the underground tunnels and eggs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

     <\/li>\n

  3. Spray\n

    \"Nozzle<\/a>
    When you upset the pile ants will start swarming, Spray again and cover all areas where ants are active<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  4. Wait a few moments for things to settle down<\/span><\/span>\n
    \"Zoom<\/a>
    Stare at ants wile you wait for things to calm down a bit. Can you find three ants?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

     <\/li>\n

  5. Repeat, starting at step one until satisfied\/bored\/out of Diatoms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is a continuation of yesterday’s story Ant pile four was much larger outside the garage. Action was required. \u00a0This pile needed the full Diatom treatment.\u00a0 The Diatom Treatment steps are easy to remember: spray, stir, spray. \u00a0For best results wait a few moment between repeating the steps so that you can see where ant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}