Dealing with Pests

We have a lot of pests outside our house. We have bats and birds in the trees surrounding our property (lost our first carrot crop to birds). We have rats that have become more intrusive this past month (they got our worker's avocados which he'd stored in a bag that he hung from a rafter in the tool shed). And, we have ants - big, black African ants that are quite aggressive in building their nests in the lawn, the driveway, and at the foundation of our house.


We asked our day askari and gardener, Daniel (on the left), to do something about the ants (and the rats and the bats). He let us know that he'd need to have some equipment to do the job since he'd be handling some poison that is apparently fairly powerful stuff. He gave me a list and I acquired it. This is a shot of him suited up to do battle with the ants. The sprayer can also be used to apply fertilizer to the crops, so it'll do double duty.