How to get home ants out of the apartment

In the apartments are set up red, less often - red and black ants. Insects build nests between water pipes and baseboards, settle in the walls and passing structures of buildings. They enter the room through cracks in the windows and doorways, as well as through cracks in the window sills. Red ants attack people and bite painfully. Reddish and black insects are more peaceful, but they can carry the infection and spoil the food, so they are trying to scare or destroy them.

Ant Pathway Processing

In the apartment penetrate only working individuals, extracting provisions. The queen sits in an anthill with the male. If hunters are poisoned, after 2–3 weeks, new miners will appear, so they try to scare away uninvited visitors. They will transmit information to the rest of the individuals, and they will bypass the apartment side.

Grass attack
You need to pour sweet crumbs on the floor or table, and then see where the insects will carry their prey. This method will help to find the ant path.The gap, through which uninvited guests enter the apartment, is caulked with a piece of fresh garlic. The smell of spice is not like all individuals, but some do not react to such a deterrent preparation.

Garlic supplement herbs with a strong and pungent odor:

• wormwood;
• cloves;
• peppermint;
• lavender.

Sprigs of dried plants laid out in the corners. A pinch of chopped herbs is poured near the entrance to the nest. Skirtings are wiped daily with alcohol or oil tincture of anise. The smell of the vegetable component does not like adults and larvae. The floor can be sprinkled with grated lemon or orange zest, ground red pepper.

Forms rubbed with crushed garlic, treated with talcum powder. Suitable and flavored baby powder. Small particles stick to the ant's feet and interfere with their movement, so the insects try to avoid talc bypass. If you “circle” all the rooms around the perimeter with powder, uninvited guests will have to look for another apartment.

Vinegar, wine and other fixtures
Skirtings and walls around the cracks from which pests crawl out, smeared with vegetable oil. Suitable sunflower, which add a drop of tar.The ant paths are treated with gasoline or diesel fuel, but after such disinfection a persistent and unpleasant smell appears in the apartment, which erodes for at least a week.

Fresh lemon juice, concentrated or diluted with water, helps. But the option with zest will be cheaper. A solution of citrus is replaced with table or apple vinegar. Ants do not tolerate sour odor. The liquid is poured into a saucer and placed next to the gap leading to the anthill. Instead of vinegar use cheap wine, it can be sour, or apple cider.

Insect repels household chemicals:

• washing powders;
• fabric softener;
• laundry soap;
• detergent.

The solution is prepared from 1 liter of warm water and 40 g of grated soap or 50 ml of fabric softener. The billet is poured into a spray bottle and liquid is plentifully applied onto baseboards, walls and floor. If the wallpaper is not sprayed and soaked with soapy water, white stains will remain on the surface. The deterrent composition is sprayed on the ant paths and the pests themselves, so that they also smell like household chemicals.

It is much easier to pour a little laundry detergent around the entrance to the nest. The grains stick to the paws of the scavengers, they bring them to the womb. The pungent smell scares the queen, forcing him to move the anthill to another point in a high-rise building.

Salt and perfumery
Instead of soapy liquids use cheap perfume or triple cologne. Perfume treated insects. If it is a pity to spend a whole bottle of toilet water on the fight against ants, it is recommended to soak cotton balls with fragrant composition and spread them out in places of insect accumulation. It will take only a week for the uninvited guests to move their home to another place.

Irritating pests are watered with hot saline. The method will briefly reduce the number of ants crawling through the kitchen. The solution is supplemented with ground salt. Spice sprinkle plinths, pest paths and uninvited guests themselves.

If you know where the anthill and the uterus are located, you need to prepare 5-7 liters of boiling water. Sometimes salt, grated household soap or tar soap, powder or triple cologne are added to the liquid. An anthill is poured with hot liquid and they observe how insects leave the house in a hurry.They are guaranteed not to appear in the apartment for at least 1-2 years.

After treatment with boiling water or herbs, the gaps and holes through which pests penetrated into the dwelling are sealed with cement mortar. Carefully inspect the windows, walls and doorways. If there are cracks in them, the defects are also covered up to prevent the ants from reappearing in the apartment.

Other deterring agents
Pests and trails sprayed with a solution with a sharp odor. To prepare a repellent liquid, you need to mix:

• 2 glasses of water;
• 300 ml of ethanol;
• 10 drops of mint or lavender essential oil.

The result is a kind of air freshener, which is poured into a bottle with a spray. Shake before use to mix the ingredients. It is used at any time. The solution is safe and smells good.

Plinths and ant walkways sprinkled with baking soda or cinnamon. Ants are irritated by the aroma of spice, so they leave the kitchen and never return.

In the cabinets with clothes and dishes put fabric bags filled with dried chamomile. The fabric does not absorb the barely perceptible odor that the plant exudes,but herbal preparation drives away uninvited guests.

After washing the floor is wiped with a solution of ammonia. On a bucket of water about 15-20 ml supplements. Work in rubber gloves and a bandage, and after processing, be sure to ventilate the room.

Instead of solutions and powders use special ultrasonic devices. They make sounds and vibrate, driving insects away. But scare devices often help with the appearance of cockroaches. Most ants do not respond to vibration and high-frequency ultrasonic waves.

Folk remedies

In homes where children or pets live, try not to use chemicals. Struggling with ants trying folk remedies.

Sweet and Egg Baits
Uninvited neighbors destroy the brown. The white powder is odorless, so the insects will not suspect that they put poison in the mince or jam. The drug affects the nervous system of ants, and they slowly die. Individuals who decide to feast on the remains of dead comrades also die. The poison enters the pest's stomach with flesh and is quickly absorbed.
Borax is safe.If an egg ball with powder is eaten by a child or a cat, he may have an allergy, but more often the body does not react to food.

There are several recipes with borax and boric acid:

1. Pour 5 g of white powder into a glass. Pour 100 ml of warm water, and when the preform swells a little and dissolve, combine it with 40 g of sugar. In the syrup add 10 g of jam, jam or honey. Any sweetness with a rich aroma will do. The stronger the smell, the more ants will react to the bait. The solution is stirred, divided into 5-6 servings. Syrup is poured into a low-sided saucer and placed next to the ant paths and the trash can.
2. Grate or mash 2 boiled yolks with a fork. Pour into a mass of 10 g of boric acid or borax powder. Stir and form yellow pea-sized balls of black pepper or less from yellow dough. Put in places where a lot of ants are going.
3. A tablespoon of warm water combined with 20 ml of glycerin. Pour 35–40 g of sugar into a liquid billet. Put a teaspoon of honey and the same boric acid. The result is a viscous thick mass from which small balls are rolled. Poisoning sweets scatter around ant paths and wait for them to act.
4. Boil 4 medium potatoes and 2–3 eggs. Mash products with a fork and mix.Add a tablespoon of powdered sugar and 5-10 g of borax to puree. Wear rubber gloves and knead the blank, then turn the paste into small balls. Lay out in places of the greatest accumulation of insects.

It is necessary to comply with the dosage. If you add more borax than indicated in the recipe, the ants will eat the bait and die on the spot, before they can treat the larvae and the queen with poison. Egg balls are recommended to be hidden under thumbs or in special boxes with tiny entrances so that the pet does not regale with a billet. Borax will not cause fatal outcome, but may provoke food poisoning.

Mix products with poison need in containers that are not intended for cooking. Old cans or plastic containers will do. It is impossible for borax particles to remain on the walls of a pot or on plates.

Means prepared from boric acid, do not act instantly. It will take 2-3 weeks to get rid of ants. It is necessary to regularly check the places where the blanks are laid out, and replenish stocks of poisonous candies.

Yeast and Meat
Ants lure raw minced meat.Mix 50 g of meat preparation with 5 g of borax. Can be replaced with boric acid. Wear gloves and knead a lot of hands. Divide the minced meat into small balls, spread out the poisoned food around the bin, next to the plinths and the ant path.

If cats or dogs live in the house, the meat stock is replaced with fresh fruit or berries. The proportions of base and borax are the same, 10 to 1. Vegan minced meat is mixed with sugar or honey to lure more insects.

If there is no meat or berry base, it is replaced with any jam. An old jam and even a condensed condensed milk will do. 100 ml of sweet billet is poured into a glass, a teaspoon of dry yeast is added. Stir until the component is dissolved, then pour 5 g of borax into jam or jam.
Sweet poison smear a thin layer on the lids for seaming and hiding under the bedside tables so that they can reach only ants. Traps are placed around the bin.

Gets a powerful tool. Borax destroys the nervous system of ants, and yeast ferments in the stomach, due to which insects literally breaks.

Additional methods
Around the plates with a sweet syrup or meat balls lay out rectangles made of cardboard, which stick double-sided tape.You can put sticky traps under the hole, from which insects crawl out, and next to the trash can.

Effective remedies are made from starch and powdered sugar. Products are mixed in equal proportions, filled with a pinch of vanillin and plinths are treated with powder. Fragrant harvesting attracts ants. They eat, together with powdered sugar, particles of starch, which swell in the stomach and cause indigestion.

Insects have time to treat with a treat of larvae and males, and sometimes the queen herself. Most of the ant colony dies, the rest move to another place. Corn starch is replaced with potato or semolina, as well as ground oatmeal. They swell better than ordinary cereals that require boiling. Sweet powder insist about a day to tasteless base was sweet and absorbed the smell of vanillin.

Destroy uninvited neighbors natural coffee. In Turk they make a drink, adding vanillin and sugar. Liquid is drained, and the thick is cooled, spread on saucers or tin lids and placed in an apartment. A pet to such a bait will not even fit.

If in the house there is a little semolina boiled in milk with sugar, add a bag of boric acid to it and mix thoroughly. Liquid bait smear on the lid or saucer. The thick mass is divided into parts and form poisoned balls.

Insect trap
In the kitchen or the entire apartment arrange half-liter jars filled with sweet syrup. The bait is prepared from ordinary water and a spoon of jam or sugar with vanilla. 150–200 ml is poured into the container so that the liquid does not reach the edges.

Ants crawl on the smell and fall into the syrup. But insects do not know how to swim and can not get out of the trap, therefore they drown.

One of the most effective way is to turn off the water. The owners of the apartment overlap the taps, and in the toilet, bath and sink pour a solution of bleach or cleaning products for toilets. Some water is mixed with laundry detergent or ammonia. The liquid is poured into bowls and placed in the corners of rooms in which ants live.

Preparing an apartment, the owners go to the country or on vacation for 1-2 weeks. Ants, deprived of drinking water and food, leave their homes.

Pest Gels and Sprays

Special aerosols help to remove insects:

• Combat;
• Get;
• Raptor.

Before using the spray, food and dishes are packaged in plastic bags and tied tightly. Animals are expelled to another room or closed on the balcony, children are taken outside. The aerosol is sprayed in rooms where ants accumulate. The trails are treated with insecticidal sprays and left for 20-30 minutes.

After disinfection the room is ventilated, tables and the floor are wiped with wet rags.

Sprays are replaced with ant gels. Liquid formulations are produced in tubes with nozzles that facilitate the distribution and application of poison on baseboards and walls. Most gels have a sweetish taste and smell of chocolate, which attracts not only insects, but also pets.

Application depends on the type of insecticide:

1. The preparation "Storm" process ant walkways and passages through which they penetrate into the apartment. It is necessary to squeeze out small peas. Thanks to its thick and viscous structure, the paste adheres well to the wall and plinth.
2. Gel "Fas" process holes and gaps. You can squeeze a little money in the ant moves in the wall. Insects disappear in a week.
3. The drug "Globol" chocolate flavor that attracts pests. The tool is applied to cardboard paper and hidden under the refrigerator, bedside tables, left next to the trash.
4. Gel "Clean Home" is treated with baseboards and circled water sources. Ants, having tasted poison, die on the spot. The drug is dangerous for animals and children. Contains substances that cause food poisoning and intoxication of the body.

You can clean the house of ants with home remedies and special preparations. Insects disappear from the apartment in 2-4 weeks and do not appear for a long time. If you are not able to get rid of pests on your own, it is worthwhile to call exterminators who will quickly clean the dwelling from uninvited neighbors.

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