“They tackle it in full,” says Wim Piels. This means that the area is divided into circles, and which are treated all by piece. “Those ants make small corridors everywhere, and then they spray something into it.” That ‘something’ is a biodegradable agent ‘that the animals kills immediately and breaks down within a few hours, “said the alderman’s spokesperson.
The fighter expects to need three to four years to finally eliminate the colony around the church. The municipality tries to free up money for that.
Also plague in Rijsenhout
Also in Rijsenhout the Mediterranean Draautatje is emerging every year. Especially on plots of horticulturists, De ant is a true scourge, it turned out last year. Nevertheless, the municipality is unable to fight the ant there, because the landowner does not allow it.
They only want to cooperate if the municipality allows them to build homes on the ground, but that is contrary to the environmental plan. The municipality is now investigating what legal possibilities there are to force the Rijsenhouters to cooperate.
There are also success stories: for example, the colony in the Graan district is almost uniggered for Visch. Only in the cavity walls and gardens of a few houses are residual colonies, the municipality writes.