How to get rid of household ants

How to attract the ants in the apartment and how to expel them from there than to scare off scouts and lonely than to neutralize the whole colony. Layfhaker continues to struggle with the insects in your home.

Ants - insects is definitely worthwhile: they are intelligent, live almost the entire planet, communicate using pheromones and are divided within their own colonies on caste. they even books devote! But it's absolutely not happy when insects appear in your kitchen.

Under what conditions in the house ants zavedutsya

If you have found in the house of a lonely wandering ant early to worry. Maybe he just got off the street on clothing or shoes. But it can be misdirected scout who discovers how the terrain is suitable for living. And he will bring along friends, if it finds an available food:

• pasta pot on the stove or leaking package cereal in the box,
• dirty dishes in the sink (insects, unlike your mate, it's like)
• garbage in an open bag or bucket (in addition to ants, it is also cockroaches draw).

The earlier start to take action, the more likely that the insects will be able to destroy before they can make a nest in your apartment. And in this case, get rid of ants will be much, much harder. Harmful arthropods will march along baseboards, walls and drawers orderly.

How to get rid of the ants, when they first appeared

If insects were seen in small quantities, sufficient preventive measures:

• Wherever possible destroy scouts by external mechanical effects. In short, just crush them.
• Wipe possible route soap or vinegar solution (per liter of water, a tablespoon of liquid soap, a few drops of citrus essential oil). For convenience, the mixture can be poured into the nebulizer.
• Draw barriers. On ant ways draw a continuous line width centimeter rastolchonnogo using activated charcoal or chalk, black pepper or turmeric. Also suitable Vaseline or scented baby powder.
• Seal. Shut ants all inputs and outputs: check ventilation plinth and all the cracks. If you can not plaster and silicone sealant to fill the whole house, as an interim measure will be enough tape.

How to get rid of ants, if they have already settled down in your apartment

Aromatherapy

Ants communicate by using pheromones: special scents need insects to mark or tasty junk food, send danger signals and reproduce. In this we will play. Filling apartment pungent smell, we scents language will let you know who's the boss here. So, the ants do not like the smell:

• peppermint (fresh or dry beams can hang around the house)
• garlic (rub a clove of plinth and ventilation grille)
• camphor,
• daisies (buy dry flowers in pharmacy and scatter on the perimeter of the dwelling)
• leafs (put in a pair of leaves with the cereal boxes stocks)
• aromatic oil of cloves, lavender, lemon and orange.

If we draw an aromatherapy sessions regularly, other measures may not be required. If this does not work, then we continue to fight in other ways.

traps

You can put them in places likely follow the ants. Traps are made on the same principle: in the center is placed a fragrant bait, and the edges are processed so that insects can not get out. Here are a couple examples:

• Double sided tape obkleyte cardboard or paper sheet perimeter and put in the middle of sweetness.
• In a glass of water, dissolve a couple of spoonfuls of jam.
• The edges of a deep bowl, lubricate with vaseline, and crumble into a cookie.

Less traps in that they consume just working ants, who are looking for food for the colony. However, the uterus and the rest of the insects will continue to live and give birth to new pests.

Folk remedies

The most effective way - to make working ants carry the colony in the heart of the poisoned food. Thus, under the blow and gets young, and uterus, and therefore cease to be new individual.

• Boric acid + yolk. Mix boiled egg yolk with honey or jam and 20 grams of boric acid. Roll the balls of the mixture and place them where the ants will move presumably. Update your bait to the complete destruction of the colony.
• Boric acid + honey. Dissolve a few tablespoons of water teaspoon of honey and 10 grams of boric acid (and it is possible to take in liquid form). Droplets of the solution, leave in suspicious places. Updated as necessary.
• Borax + minced meat. Mix both components in any proportion, roll into balls and place the flat. Instead of borax, boric acid can be used in dry or liquid form.

Chemical attack

Insecticides market is full of all sorts of means: crayons, traps, gels, pastes and sprays. Choose any remedy for ants, but remember when using the precautions: follow the instructions, wear protective gloves and protect it from the poison children and pets.

If you are not confident in their abilities, consult the experts for the destruction of insects.

Are you concerned about ants? If so, how do you compete with them? Share your tips in the comments.