How to get rid of ants?
Domestic ants are a real catastrophe. These little insects manage to climb into the most secluded corners, spoil the food and bring a lot of other troubles. How to get rid of ants in an apartment?
Under house ants usually meansmall red (Pharaoh) ants. Due to their small size, they easily penetrate the house - usually through cracks in walls or foundations, heating or sewage pipes. Domestic ants are especially not indifferent to sweet, so do not be surprised if you find them in a sugar bowl or jar of jam. But red ants are omnivorous, so if they are not sweet, they can encroach on other foods that are imprudently left in sight.
Because of their omnivore, house ants canBecome a source of infection - if outside your home will eat some carrion. And if they arrange a nest in some electrical appliance, they could easily cause a short circuit, and you'll have to go to the store for a new, for example, TV.
How to kick out these unwelcome guests? How to get rid of ants once and for all? First of all, you need to determine whether these ants came to you for permanent residence or simply go to visit from neighbors. In the first case, you need to find a nest and destroy it - otherwise it will not work out absolutely all the ants. And in the second case, you will have to cooperate with neighbors - even if you eradicate all the ants in your home, they will still creep out of the neighboring apartments until neighbors destroy the anthill.
Ant nests can be found in the mostunexpected places - even in sockets. You can find them on the "ant track" - usually ants do not crawl around the house chaotically, but move along the original "paths" leading from the nest to your products. How to get rid of ants if you found a nest? Traditional chemical means - dichlorvos or chalk "Mashenka" - help. Dichlorvos should immediately sprinkle the nest until the ants are scattered, and shallowly pass along the paths and near the anthill. But with the use of chemistry you need to be extremely careful, especially if the house has pets, small children or pregnant women.
Folk remedies for ants
In addition to chemicals, getting rid of ants will helpfolk remedies. Some of them operate on the principle of baits. The ant tries poisoned food, but does not die immediately, but carries the poison into the anthill and thus poisones the entire ant family.
The most common recipe for such a bait -It is a mixture of water, sugar and boric acid or ground borax. You can add a little vanilla, honey or jam to the bait. But this bait needs to be cooked only in clean dishes - house ants perfectly smell strange odors.
In the fight against ants can help and yeast. To do this, dilute a little yeast in warm water and add sugar, honey or jam. The resulting thick liquid should be poured into shallow containers and placed in the places where you most often see ants.
To bury ants from your house, you canuse products that can scare them away. Such products include sunflower oil, parsley, onions, lemon, chamomile, garlic, anise, cloves, wild mint and many other products with strong odor products. It is necessary to rub some of these products with ant trails and the edges of the dishes, in which food is stored.
If there are few ants in the house, withThe last survivors can be managed with the help of sweet water. To do this, you need to pour water in a saucer, stir sugar in it and put it overnight in places where ants most likely will come (on the kitchen table, near the refrigerator). "The last of the Mohicans" will come to the sweet and drown in the water.
Get rid of the ants in the house is quite real. Usually, after using one or more of the above, the red invaders stop annoying and leave the apartment if not forever, then for a very long time.
