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- Insatiable horde of ants: how to get rid of them
- Beat on all fronts
Start our story about ants, which penetrate into the apartment, we would like to with the message of one of our readers.
"I've never been tormented by the question, where his grandmother in the village in a log house there are ants. I think everything is pretty clear and understandable: crude cellar, filled with supplies, the land, the proximity of the garden - in a word, nature nearby. But when there were ants in the apartment, my astonishment grew with each new surveyed inch marching ants.
It turned out the way they started out from the balcony, then zigzag across the living room, and, after passing the entrance hall, "my" eater rushed to the pantry, where last year fired jars of jam and sweet treats leaked through the cracks in the floor in the basement ( I forgot to mention that my apartment was located on the ground floor). How, how, how such a scent these small pests found a manger ?! "
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Insatiable horde of ants: how to get rid of them
The most unpleasant danger which threatens the appearance of ants in your house - the spread of germs. But the obsession and the ability of ants to occupy "all, all and everywhere" - this is the limit of human endurance! And it is very important to timely and correctly to fight for a place "under the sun."
Ethiopian ants (so called living in our homes insects, the first specimens of which centuries ago were together with goods imported by Russian merchants from Ethiopia), as well as all other types of ants - insects purely social, and so one scout result of the thousands of volunteers. Crushing of sneakers, you destroy the entire colony. Formic female is able to quickly reproduce the return of the deceased individuals hundred newborns. And because all the control measures should be directed to the detection of the main object - the nest.
Since domestic ants are much smaller than their natural counterparts, they can settle in the most unexpected places: under the baseboard, into the socket in the building cracks in the wall, might even come to you from neighbors or from the street. They feed on the small insects almost everyone: for breakfast they eat sweets for lunch - raw meat, fish for dinner - not disdain remaining crumbs from lunch and water accumulated in the sink, and for dessert - can have a snack and components of household appliances!
And you have to understand what "ant colony". If you accidentally together with some food ants took home from work or from neighbors, you brought the worker ants, and they can not multiply and grow the colony. This requires a female, and if you have a lot of ants, look for it, look for a nest. A finding mercilessly destroy. Then you do not have to store the bread in the bank, and the bank put in a basin of water, treating the edge with oil!
Preventive measures
If you ant raids to become a yearly routine as the poplar fluff summer, and you are expected to appear, so be prepared in advance and perform preventive measures. Enclosure, apply all possible slots, holes, chipped cemented mortar or putty.
Sit on the balcony of the wormwood or mint, the smell of which will scare away insects. Also, the ants do not like strong smells of garlic and elderberry. Treat shallow "Masha" the perimeter of your premises, furniture backs and other possible places where the ants. Pre-lay bait prospective zones. Wash floors with water and vinegar and do not miss the "first scout."
Ants!
So, what happened. The day before yesterday you accidentally found in the sugar ants yesterday they were on the table for two decades, and today you almost stepped on a string of ant family! What to do? How to get rid of ants in the apartment?
Track for track, check the proposed location of nesting ants, and start to act. If the detected place locally, use conventional dichlorvos or other insecticides. However, the presence of nests, for example, in the floor under the skirting aggravates the situation. Do not worry, it is not necessary for it to take all the parquet ant path. In this case, it would be wise to implement a working ant poison, which they will bring to your home and infect the entire colony.
Route ant colony and can be treated with oil or garlic extract. If these funds are not effective, it is necessary to use heavy artillery - chemicals "Angara", "Taiga". Reliable means that effectively eliminates the house of ants, is a drug DEET. Treatment facilities must be repeated three or four days.
Folk wisdom against formic tricks
To win in this difficult struggle for the complete cleaning of the premises from intruders, you can use all kinds of baits for ants. There are various ways in which many successfully got rid of red insects. The most effective and fast way - "feed" pests delicacy containing boric acid or borax. Here are the most effective compounds that can be used to quickly get rid of uppity "freeloaders":
- With boiled egg yolk
Mix one spoon (tea), borax or boric acid with one boiled egg yolk, put the mixture into the places where insects. Refresh this ant "treat" in a week, and you will forget what has befallen you was misfortune.
- With sugar, boric acid and borax
Should be taken in equal proportions of boric acid, borax and sugar. All stir and pour in a few places on the ant path. After eating poison, and taking her with him, the ants back to the nest and poison their colony.
- The liquid formulation with honey or jam
Prepare a liquid lure: a spoon 1 teaspoon borax (boric acid), and the same amount of sugar dissolved in fifty grams of water and add a spoonful (teaspoon) of honey or jam. Sweet poison pour saucer and arrange the path of the ants.
- The composition, which can be stored for long periods
This infusion can be stored all summer and use as needed. Mix in a small tank two large spoons of water, two tablespoons of glycerine same one spoon (tea) of boric acid (borax), two spoons (tea) honey and three large spoons of sugar. Put on the fire and stir until dissolved the composition of ingredients.
- Formulations are completely harmless to humans
Most ant heap space sprinkle conventional baking powder, used for preparation of the test. Or make a mixture of yeast and sugar (honey, jam). Yeasts are ants, like a poison.
In principle, all recipes containing borax or boric acid are the basic elements of these chemical powders, all the other ingredients you add only ant bait. You can use any products that are like these insects: sugar, honey, bread, eggs, boiled potatoes, jams, biscuits and so on.
In the preparation of compositions using borax or boric acid can not increase the dose of these chemicals. Your task - to destroy the entire colony, and it needs to worker ants managed to get to the nest and infect the rest of poison relatives.
Do not neglect the shop bait for ants, a variety of chemicals. The market insecticides updated every season, and you can always choose something more suitable for you. Just read the instructions carefully and do not forget about safety. If your house has small children or pets, be especially careful with the location of poisons.
Along with the operational activities against insects, place the order at the kitchen. Pour all cereals in glass jars, process the edges sunflower oil. By the way, vegetable oil, generously poured around, perfectly preserves any objects on the table. However, it is not very aesthetically. But if you really have declared war on the ants, do not leave them no chance to find even a crumb of food and drop of water.
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Beat on all fronts
Basically, the use of popular ways of getting rid of ants effectively at an early stage, but running or recurring annual event formic "occupation" suggests either that their nest is deep and find it is not possible (for example, under the balcony or in the basement), or you are not alone in their entrance "fans" of insects, and your neighbors, and do not think to take any action, and ants for them - brothers smaller.
Or maybe you turn the grass pests: the grass you - ants go to the neighbors, poison neighbors on the porch - insects returning to the native land. And because Coordinate your actions with its neighbors to fight the ants need to collectively and simultaneously. Unfortunately, there are cases of mass resettlement of a large colony of ants around the entrance. Then you can do nothing but to call a specialized service to combat insect - exterminator. It is an effective, fast and wide method of dealing with ants.
Yes, this is not an easy job - to rid your home of ants! But it is worth it to your kitchen with fresh products, bathroom with scented soap, pantry with all the supplies, your tranquility and your security were the only neighbors in the apartment. We hope that these tips will help you to win over small and annoying dirty dog. Good luck and perseverance!
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