How to destroy ants and anthill

When small red ants settle in the house, many owners believe that they are harmless enough. However, in large numbers, insects can cause some trouble to everyone living in the apartment, transferring infection on their paws and spoiling food. Therefore, the task of how to destroy ants becomes relevant for every person who has "red aliens" in his house.

Where do ants come from?

To correctly calculate the strategy and tactics of combating the invasion red ants, you need to understand how they get into the house. Their home species have a red-brown color and live only in warm rooms, so they can come:

• from the basement where is anthill, they go to apartments for food;
• through vents and the chute;
• from neighbors who have a lot of them divorced, they move and create nests in new housing;
• forest and domestic ants can be brought on clothes, with furniture or with products from the forest or from public places;
• flying ant accidentally can fly into the apartment through the window.

Ants

Against insects, in order to destroy them, both chemical agents and folk methods of struggle. Chemicals are more effective, but unsafe for pets and children.

The most popular ant exterminators are:

• Aerosols and sprays containing the insecticidal preparations cypermethrin, tetramethrin, etc., help to kill insects in a short time, but they only affect working individuals and are used when the location of the colony is unknown. The advantage of their use is that it is possible to process hard-to-reach cracks, baseboards, various recesses, suspended ceilings. The most famous: Dichlorvos, Raid, raptor, Karbofos.
• Chemicals in the form of gels are more effective, because after applying it in pest habitats, poison particles fall on their paws to the nest and completely destroy the entire anthill population in 2-8 weeks. Well established a great warrior, Clean house and Raptor.
• Special pencils help get rid of ants and act like gels. The most popular - crayon Mashenka.
• Traps for ants sold in stores will help exterminate ants for a sufficiently long period of time, they must be installed on tracks or next to an anthill, near ventilation shafts and a bin. Kombat, Raptor and Dohlox are effective traps.
  

  Important!

  Check placed traps it is necessary weekly so that they are not cluttered with the corpses of dead ants.

• Newer and more modern means - drops and microcapsules Ksulat and Lethal drops containing a triple dose of a toxic substance will ensure the destruction of pests in a few days.
• Folk methods, including the manufacture of various lures with the addition of toxic substances, very often help to destroy red aliens.
• Ultrasonic devicesrepelling all insects in a certain area.

Popular methods of destruction

Various folk methods can suggest how to destroy the ants in the house. To do this, various poisonous substances are suitable, which are mixed into the bait so that the pests eat it, and then some time after the onset of the action of the poison, they die.

Folk remedies for exterminating ants include:

• A mixture of water and sugar (50 g each), 6 g borax, vanillin is added for an attractive smell - such baits are laid out in the habitats of pests, closer to their nests.
• Mix fresh yeast with water to a thick mass, for taste, add jam or honey and spread on ant paths.
• Mix 1 tsp boric acid10 tsp sugar and 2 tbsp. mix water and form into balls, which are laid out within the premises.
• Spread potato starch next to the bait - ants stain paws in it, and partly swallow it, after which a strong expansion of the stomach occurs, pests die. Similarly, ants' lime can be used with corn, wheat flour, dry ground rice, decoys.
• Coffee grounds attract insects with their smell, but after dragging it into the nest, the inhabitants who eat it die.

Extermination of anthills

In order for pest control to be effective, it is imperative to find and destroy the anthill, in which not only working individuals live, but also their uteruscapable of producing offspring in large numbers.

When the nests are discovered, several methods are used to destroy them:

• the colony must be filled with boiling water, kerosene or turpentine can also be used, after drying, the treated area should be thoroughly vacuumed;
• treat the localization zone with gel against ants, after which they will gradually transfer the poison to their nest and poison all the inhabitants.

Professional pest control

If all methods have been tried, and the effect has not been achieved and pests have appeared in the apartment again, then the special service for treating the premises with chemical insecticides will help to destroy the ants in the apartment. This method is more expensive than others, but highly effective.

Residents of apartment buildings are best served by the SES and process both apartments and basements.

Before starting the chemical treatment, the landlord needs to prepare a room:

• hide dishes and products in inaccessible places or take them to the balcony;
• Pets are better to temporarily relocate to another place.

Professionals perform the following actions:

• inspection of the premises and detection of pest colonies;
• processing of nests and living quarters using chemicals, pesticides or hot steam to kill ants;
• give a guarantee of the work done.

Special services usually use chemicals for which insects have not developed immunity in this region, so after their processing the ants will be destroyed for a long time.

Reviews

I fought with ants at home for a very long time and in all available ways, and after a couple of months they came back again. Then it turned out that the neighbors had anthills. Only when we joined forces were we able to defeat them.

Veronika, Smolensk

The gels that I bought in the store helped very well, anointed them in places of their crowds, and after a few days they all disappeared. Used the same tool in the garage to get rid of ants in a car. Gel coped with the task assigned to him.

Igor, Volgograd