subject: How to get rid of household ants? [print this page] How to get rid of household ants? How to get rid of household ants?
Fighting ants is difficult, but possible. The main thing here - take into account some features of ant life. Thus, the heart of the ant colony is a nest where the female, or the ant queen, producing more and more working individuals. Females do not leave the nest and can not get food on their own, they are fed sterile working ants.
Find a nest of ants in the apartment is very difficult. Usually it is securely hidden in some small cavity in the wall or floor. Even if you're lucky and you find an ant hole, do not hurry to sever or remove tile flooring: hidden from the corridor leading to the nest can be quite long, and you have to ruin not just one tile or parketinu. However, once the working ants feed the entire colony, you can try through them, "treat" of females and larvae of some poisonous potion. This is possible if the concentration of poison (most effectively - boric acid) will be small (not to exceed 2 per cent). The ant does not die immediately, but will carry it to the heart of the colony.
Here are some simple recipes:
1. Dilute to a glass of water about 1 / 4 teaspoon of boric acid, three teaspoons of sugar and one or two teaspoons of honey. The nozzle in a shallow bowl to display more than once or twice, but within a month, and in a place where the ants can get, and other pets - no. Keep the poison for the ants do not become a dangerous toy for your children.
2. Against ants recommended meat bait. For its preparation take 2 tablespoons of minced meat and half teaspoon of powdered borax. All this is mixed and laid out in public places ants.
3. Ants deterred as the smell of oil, leaves, elderberry, wild mint and tarragon.
4. Helps drill - a mixture of boric acid with sugar or honey. These creatures eat it and die.
5. Dichlorvos.
6. It is necessary to bring in an apartment where pets live ants is a perfect forest from the street and those, like respectable revelers should take away the woods and home. By the way, there's nothing funny, the way has already been tested - the disappearance of household ants - 100%.
7. Type in a jar of water, add more honey or sugar, they will crawl back and voluntarily drown himself.
8. Try garlic grease their way around a couple times a month.
9. Frontline Spray helps radical - very expensive spray, from cockroaches, ants, fleas and ticks. For sale in veterinary pharmacies.
10. Radical means - "Regent". Small package, worth about 10p. Dilute with water, apply a small syringe with a needle in all holes, slits.
Knowledge of the laws of life ant colony can not only find the appropriate way to fight, but also eliminates unnecessary fears. Thus, even if the return of the guests, along with a piece of my grandmother's cake, you bring a few fruitless job muravishek, they still will not be able to establish a colony and begin to multiply. Resettlement is responsible for only females. If it were not so, the ants would take much less time to settle on the world.
