Question
I read the answer about putting sugar on the lawn to rid stickers and other weeds. It may attract harmless insects, but what about ants? I live in New Mexico and we get black and "fire" ants during the spring and summer. Could I still use the pesticide on a particular ant bed, and it not affect the surrounding lawn? And if I decided to use sugar, would it be best to apply on a moist lawn, or dry? How long would I have to wait to water the yard after applying? One side of my yard is completely covered with stickers, and I am desperate for answers. Any advice or other alternative would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer
Hi Amanda;
Ok, first it won't attract ants because you water it in well.
Second, when you have an organic enviornment, you have lizards, toads and grass snakes living in your lawn, and they eat ALL the harmful insects.
Toads love slugs and ants. Lizards and grass snakes both eat ants, as well as other insects.
I call my critters my "Lawn livestock".
I am running a few hundred head now, I estimate.
Had a lot of small ittle lizards, like the ittle Anoles you get at pet stores. Now, some of them are about 12 inches long, nose to tail, and about 2 inches in diameter at the middle. They have gott3n that big keeping my rose bushes free of aphids, and the lawn free of ants, grube etc.
I never see an army worm, fire ant, slug, anything that used to drive me up the wall.
I can see june bugs( Japanese beetles) swarming in other neighbors' yards, but we are not bothered with them.
I know I have grass snakes, because the plastic pots I move plants to when they are larger ( the black ones I buy shrubs in), and I keep them stacked behind our little barn. when I want one, I jiggle it some, and can hear the grass snakes scooting down to the one below.
I run a long stick across the tops of tall grasses etc before I go in there, because if a grass snake ran across my foot, I would kill myself running into a tree or something getting away.
I am NOT cool in the presence of ANY snake.
I see toads occasionally, but not often.
I talk to the lizards, when I see them scampering up a tree trunk, or running along the fence top.
They stop and look at me while I am talking to them, but I do NOT want one for a pet.
I keep a nice safe enviornment for them, and they eat well, live well, and leave me alone.LOL
Charlotte