Fighting ants in a house or apartment

How to deal with ants in a house or apartment, our ancestors knew. Effective recipes continue to be used to kill pests along with professional insecticides. The fight against ants in the apartment is carried out by scaring or attracting.

Ways and methods of struggle

Home remedies can expel pests from the premises, destroy them with poisonous bait, and catch them with traps. Means of combating ants are selected based on the size of the ant family, personal preferences.

1. The deterrents protect the house from the pest settlement, expel already settled ones. For control, plants with a rich aroma, strongly smelling substances are used.
2. Lures used for insect poisoning, extermination. Boric acid and borax cope with domestic ants. It is mixed into edible products, offered by insects. The bait must have a strong aroma so that pests quickly find it. For an effective fight, you need to lay out the tool in places where ants were noticed along the trajectory of their movement.
3. The fight against ants in the house is carried out with the help of traps. They are made of adhesive, double-sided tape, water. These control methods reduce the number of insects. Deprive residents anthill food stocks. Since it is precisely after them that the workers are sent to the message.

On a note!

The most effective fight involves a combination of several methods, methods.

Scare

Ants are guided by their sense of smell. With the help of smell they find food, inform others about it, warn of danger, remember the trajectory, find a pair for mating. A constant pungent odor disrupts the normal rhythm of life, confusing the insect.

When placing a strongly smelling product near a nest, anthill, uterus leaves the place of residence, all individuals leave for her. The aroma present in the room does not allow the new colonies to settle, which prevents re-infection, the settlement of other types of pests.

Plants that do not like ants:

• pharmaceutical camomile;
• peppermint;
• elder;
• sagebrush;
• tansy;
• calendula;
• parsley.

In a private house for fighting, plants are laid out in bunches around the perimeter. You can use a dry potion, a fresh plant. Periodically, it is worth updating the protective agent, since it acts as long as a persistent room aroma is held. Whenever possible, bushes of parsley, mint, yellow calendula are planted around the house, creating an invisible protective wall.

Vegetables unpleasant to ants:

• garlic;
• Tomatoes
• bow;
• pepper.

FROM black ants you can fight pepper, sprinkling it around the perimeter of the house, along the trajectory of the movement of insects. Hot peppers annoy paws, causing pests to run away.

The smell of garlic, tomato tops and onions, members of the ant society simply can not stand. Means are crushed or laid out in its original form. The arrows of garlic are rubbed on the walls, window sills, baseboards, doors.

On a note!

Cope with small ants cinnamon. Its persistent strong smell is pleasant to a person, it drives ants crazy, forcing them to run wherever their eyes look.

Strong odor substances:

• vinegar;
• Birch tar;
• ammonia.

Prepare a solution by adding the selected ingredient to water. Means wash the floor, window sills, wipe furniture, baseboards. To create a greater concentration of aroma, put saucers with the selected ingredient, moisten the cotton wool.

Killing ants with boric acid

Folk remedies not only scare away insects, but also attract them for the purpose of further destruction. If it was possible to find an ant nest, it is poured with boiling water, they inject it into hard-to-reach places with a syringe.

As a toxic component, boric acid is used. An odorless substance is not attractive to insects in any way, but by adding it to a fragrant edible bait you can achieve the death of pests.

On a note!

Act boric acid starts when ingested. A large number of it enters the esophagus with food, a certain proportion from the legs. The ant is trying to clean the abdomen, licks the poison. Death occurs after the accumulation of a certain dose in the body of an insect.

Boric Acid Bait

It is prepared in several versions:

• sugar is mixed with the active ingredient, left on a saucer;
• boric acid is added to honey, droplets are dripping along the path of ants;
• mix poison with any jam;
• rub berries with poison;
• soften cookies in milk, add boric acid.

The bait needs to be updated as it is eaten, thoroughly every week. Since the smell disappears over time, the consistency is lost. The substance loses interest in the ant's eyes.

Solution

Ant control preparations are used to treat the room. Boric acid is added to water. One sachet is dissolved in 3 l of water. It is poured into a bottle with a sprayer, plinths, window sills, floors, furniture are treated, poured into narrow slots, a pest nest.

Traps

The movement of insects by Vaseline, chalk is difficult. The first substance leads to adhesion, the second - deprives tenacity, ants can not climb up, fall.

With their own hands, simple designs are made that protect the table, food from annoying ants, until the poison finally acts.

• paste along the baseboards, on the windowsill, double-sided tape;
• half the water is poured into a glass, honey is dripped;
• leave saucers with water.

A small house pest can not only annoy with its constant presence, but also reduce the strength of the building, because over time it turns a tree into dust. If folk recipes did not bring the proper result, poison ants necessary with chemicals.