How to deal with red ants
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- Boric acid from ants
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- Ant plants
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- Pest Controls
Red domestic ants are tropical inhabitants that were brought to the territory of our country many years ago. They adapted to life in the apartments of multi-storey buildings. They live in close proximity to man. How to get rid of red ants in your own house, the question is important and frequent. Since the struggle can last for years.
Varieties of household pests
Appear red ants in any house on different floors. Insects in red, large in size refer to pharaoh ants. They are not adapted to life in the wild, occupy the upper floors of the house, starting from the third. Nests are built under the floor, in the gaps between the walls, under the baseboards, window sills, in any convenient place. For several months, a huge anthill formed.
On the lower floors settle ants thieves. Wildlife dwellers who periodically move into a person’s dwelling with a lack of food outside. These are small red ants with a large family.
You can get rid of pests by your own efforts, using folk remedies, professional preparations, or seek help from specialists. Insofar as ants are able to settle in a heater, wander around the house, occasionally returning to normal. Finally, you can destroy insects together, eliminating nests throughout the high-rise building.
Folk remedies
Fight with red ants in the house can be plants, substances with a pungent smell, poisonous substances. Traps able to reduce the number of pests, but do not eliminate the problem.It is not necessary to use them.
Boric acid
The substance is odorless, taste with a poisonous effect, safe for humans, pets. Begins to begin after entering the esophagus. The mass death of ants is observed within two weeks.
Prepare the bait, add boric acid, mix thoroughly. Cookies, jam, porridge, egg, boiled potatoes, any ingredient with a noticeable aroma are used in the apartment.
On a note!
Lay out bait necessary in those places in the apartment where the ants were seen. Usually they move along the learned route. Bumping into the food, try it yourself, dragged into the nest womb, larvae, other relatives.
It is necessary to renew the bait as it is eaten or when it dries out under the influence of sunlight, temperature.
Plants
It is possible to bring out the red ants from the apartment, but the process takes more time, the method is more auxiliary. It is better to use garlic, tomato tops. As well as elderberry, sprigs of mint, camomile, calendula, wormwood, tansy. Good ant cinnamon works.
Components frighten insects off by smell, preventing them from finding food. Over time, the reserves in the nest are depleted, difficult times come. Ants leave their former place of residence, go to the next room.
Scare fluid
The ant smells of ammonia, vinegar, and peppermint essential oil are capable of scaring off the army of ants. The option is more suitable for non-residential apartments, or if it is possible to spend the night in another place at the time of the procedure.
The windowsills, baseboards, floor, furniture are wiped with a concentrated solution. Put in the cap undiluted composition. A strong odor sneaks into small crevices, causing discomfort to red ants even in the nest.
On a note!
Folk remedy from red ants in the apartment helps if the number of insects is small. It is better to fight with a large colony with professional products.
Pest Controls
To get rid of red large ants in the apartment will help concentrated solutions based on insecticidal agents, poisonous baits.
Disinsection
For the procedure using any insecticide broad-spectrum. Suitable:
- Clean house;
- Dichlorvos;
- Malathion;
- Executioner;
- Geth.
All residents, domestic animals are taken out of the room, a respirator and rubber gloves are worn. Treat the floor with a mortar; furniture must be from a spray bottle or spray bottle.
Close the room for 2 hours. After that, a well ventilated apartment, doing wet cleaning in those places where they can touch human hands.
The poison acts immediately, the maximum result is noticeable after 2 weeks. The poisonous substance penetrates through the integuments of the body, causes paralysis, death.
Gels
Poisonous bait produced in the form of a gel. It is necessary to place a dotted line in places where insects move more often. The composition includes a poisonous component, which begins to act after getting into the intestine, flavors attract attention. Amplifiers of taste make the bait especially attractive to ants. They eat poison more readily than normal food.
The action persists for 14 days, periodically the layer should be updated. The main advantage is safety for humans, pets. Recognized as effective ant products:
- a great warrior;
- Volcano;
- Global;
- Fas;
- Clean house.
Fighting ant families in an apartment is a time consuming and long process. With the combined use of professional, folk remedies, lasting results are achieved only after a month of active efforts.
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