How to get domestic ants out of an apartment

Reds start up in apartments, 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 windows and doorways, as well as through cracks in window sills. Red ants attack people and bite painfully. Red and black insects are more peaceful, but they can transmit infection and spoil food, so they try to scare or destroy them.

Ant Path Processing

Only working individuals who get food are getting into the apartment. The uterus sits in the anthill with the male. If you poison the hunters, after 2-3 weeks there will be new miners, so they try to scare away uninvited visitors. They will pass on information to other individuals, and they will bypass the apartment.

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 stuffed with a piece of fresh garlic. The smell of spices is not liked by all individuals, but some do not react at all to such a frightening blank.

Garlic is supplemented with herbs with a strong and pungent odor:

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

Sprigs of dried plants are laid out in the corners. A pinch of crushed herbs is poured near the entrance to the anthill. Skirting boards are rubbed daily with alcohol or oil tincture of anise. The smell of the plant component is not like adults and larvae. The floor can be sprinkled with grated zest of lemon or orange, ground red pepper.

The ant path is rubbed with crushed garlic, treated with talc. Flavored baby powder is also suitable. Small particles stick to the ant legs and prevent movement, so insects try to bypass the talc. If you “circle” all rooms along the perimeter, uninvited guests will have to look for another apartment.

Vinegar, wine and other appliances
Skirting boards and walls around the cracks from which pests creep out, lubricated with vegetable oil. A sunflower in which a drop of tar is added is suitable. Ant paths are treated with gasoline or diesel fuel, but after such disinfection, a persistent and unpleasant odor appears in the apartment, which disappears for at least a week.

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

Repels insects household chemicals:

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

The solution is prepared from 1 liter of warm water and 40 g of grated laundry soap or 50 ml of fabric softener. The workpiece is poured into a spray bottle and a lot of liquid is applied to the skirting boards, walls and floor. If the wallpaper is not sprayed, but soaked in soapy water, white stains will remain on the surface. The repellent compound is sprayed onto the ant paths and the pests themselves, so that they also smell like household chemicals.

It is much easier to pour a little washing powder around the entrance to the anthill. Grains stick to the legs of the earners, they bring them to the uterus. The pungent smell frightens the queen, forcing him to transfer the anthill to another point in the apartment building.

Salt and Perfumery
Instead of soapy liquids, cheap perfumes or triple cologne are used. Perfumes process insects.If it is a pity to spend a whole bottle of toilet water on the fight against ants, it is recommended to infuse cotton balls with aromatic composition and place them in places of accumulation of insects. It only takes a week for uninvited guests to move their home to another place.

Annoying pests are watered with hot saline. The method will briefly reduce the number of ants crawling around the kitchen. The solution is supplemented with crushed salt. Plinths, paths of pests and uninvited guests themselves are sprinkled with spice.

If you know where the anthill and the uterus are located, you need to cook 5-7 liters of boiling water. Sometimes salt, grated laundry or tar soap, powder or triple cologne are added to the liquid. An anthill is poured with hot liquid and the 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 cracks and holes through which pests penetrated into the housing are closed with cement mortar. Carefully inspect windows, walls and doorways. If cracks are found in them, defects are also glossed over to prevent the re-emergence of ants in the apartment.

Other repellents
Pests and trails are sprayed with a solution with a sharp aroma. To prepare a deterrent liquid, you need to mix:

• 2 glasses of water;
• 300 ml of ethyl alcohol;
• 10 drops of peppermint or lavender essential oil.

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

Skirting boards and ant paths sprinkled with baking soda or cinnamon. Ants are annoyed by the aroma of spices, so they leave the kitchen and never return.

Cloth bags filled with dried chamomile are placed in cabinets with clothes and utensils. The fabric does not absorb the faint smell that the plant exudes, but the grassy blank drives the uninvited guests away.

After washing, wipe the floor with a solution of ammonia. In a bucket of water, approximately 15–20 ml of the supplement. Work in rubber gloves and a bandage, and after processing it is imperative to ventilate the room.

Instead of solutions and powders, special ultrasonic devices are used. They make sounds and vibrate, driving insects away. But scaring devices often help with the appearance of cockroaches. Most ants do not react at all to vibration and high-frequency ultrasonic waves.

Folk remedies

In houses where children or pets live, try not to use chemicals. They try to fight ants with folk remedies.

Sweet and Egg Lures
Uninvited neighbors destroy the brown. The white powder is odorless, so the insects will not suspect that they put poison in the minced meat 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 stomach of the pests along with the flesh and is rapidly absorbed.
Borax is safe. If a child or a cat eats an egg ball with powder, he may have an allergy, but more often the body does not respond to refreshments.

There are several recipes with brown and boric acid:

1. Pour 5 g of white powder into a glass. Pour 100 ml of warm water, and when the workpiece swells a little and dissolves, combine it with 40 g of sugar. 10 g of jam, jam or honey are added to the syrup. Any sweet 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. The syrup is poured into a saucer with low sides and placed next to the ant trails and the bin.
2. Grate or mash with a fork 2 boiled yolks. Pour into a mass of 10 g of boric acid or borax powder. Stir and form yellow pea-sized balls of peppercorns or less.Put in places where many ants gather.
3. Combine a tablespoon of warm water with 20 ml of glycerin. Pour 35–40 g of sugar into a liquid preparation. Put a teaspoon of honey and the same amount of boric acid. You will get a viscous thick mass from which small balls are rolled. Poisoning sweets are scattered around ant paths and waiting for them to work.
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 in mashed potatoes. Put on rubber gloves and knead the workpiece, then turn the paste into small balls. To lay out in places of the greatest accumulation of insects.

The dosage must be observed. If you add more borax than indicated in the recipe, the ants will eat the bait and die in place, not having time to treat the larvae and the queen with poison. Egg balls are recommended to be hidden under curbstones or in special boxes with tiny entrances, so that the pet does not eat the billet. Borax will not cause death, but can provoke food poisoning.

Mix products with poison in containers not intended for cooking. Old cans or plastic containers will do. Borax particles cannot remain on the walls of the pan or plates.

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

Yeast and meat
Ants are lured with raw minced meat. Mix 50 g of meat with 5 g of borax. Can be replaced with boric acid. Wear gloves and knead the mass with your hands. Divide the minced meat into small balls, arrange the poisonous food around the bin, next to the baseboards and the ant trail.

If cats or dogs live in the house, the meat blank is replaced with fresh fruits or berries. The proportions of the base and borax are the same, 10 to 1. Vegetarian 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. Old jam and even missing condensed milk will do. Pour 100 ml of sweet billet into a glass, add a teaspoon of dried yeast. Stir until the component is dissolved, then pour 5 g of borax into jam or jam.
Sweet poison is spread with a thin layer on the lids for seaming and hidden under the bedside tables so that only ants can reach them. Traps are placed around the bin.

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

Additional methods
Around plates with sweet syrup or meat balls are laid out rectangles made of cardboard, on which double-sided tape is glued. You can put sticky traps under the hole from which insects come out, and next to the bin.

Effective products are made from starch and powdered sugar. The products are mixed in equal proportions, seasoned with a pinch of vanillin and treated with powder skirting boards. Fragrant blank attracts ants. They eat together with powdered sugar grains of starch, which swell in the stomach and cause indigestion.

Insects manage to treat the larvae and males, and sometimes the queen herself, with delicacy. Most of the ant colony dies, the rest move to another place. Corn starch is replaced with potato or semolina, as well as ground instant oatmeal. They swell better than ordinary cereals requiring cooking. Sweet powder is insisted for about a day, so that the tasteless base becomes sweet and absorbs the smell of vanillin.

Destroy uninvited neighbors with natural coffee. A drink is made in Turk, adding vanillin and sugar. The liquid is drained, and the thick is cooled, laid out on saucers or tin lids and placed around the apartment.A pet will not even fit such a bait.

If a little semolina porridge boiled in milk with sugar is left in the house, a bag of boric acid is added to it and thoroughly mixed. The liquid bait is smeared on the lids or saucer. The thick mass is divided into parts and poisoned balls are formed.

Insect trap
Half a liter jars filled with sweet syrup are placed in the kitchen or the entire apartment. The bait is made from ordinary water and a spoonful of jam or sugar with vanilla. 150-200 ml is poured into the container so that the liquid does not reach the edges.

Ants slip into the smell and fall into the syrup. But insects cannot swim and cannot 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 block the taps, and a solution of bleach or toilet cleaner is poured into the toilet, bath and sink. Some water is mixed with laundry detergent or ammonia. The liquid is poured into bowls and placed in the corners of the rooms in which the ants live.

Having prepared the apartment, the owners leave for the cottage or on vacation for 1-2 weeks. Ants, deprived of drinking water and food, leave housing.

Pest gels and sprays

Special aerosols help to remove insects:

• Combat
• Get
• Raptor.

Before using the spray, food and utensils are packed in plastic bags and tied tightly. Animals are driven out to another room or closed on the balcony, children are taken out onto the street. Aerosol is sprayed in rooms where ants accumulate. They are treated with insecticidal sprays of the trail and left for 20-30 minutes.

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

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

Application depends on the brand of insecticide:

1. The drug "Storm" process ant paths and passages through which they enter the apartment. It is necessary to squeeze out small peas. Due to the thick and viscous structure, the paste adheres well to the wall and baseboard.
2. Fas gel process cracks and holes. You can squeeze a little funds into the ant passages in the wall. Insects disappear in a week.
3. Globol has a chocolate flavor that attracts pests. The product is applied to cardboard paper and hidden under a refrigerator, bedside tables, left next to the bin.
4. Clean House gel is used to process plinths and outline water sources. Having tested the poison, ants 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 could not get rid of the pests yourself, you should call the pest control, which will quickly clean the house from uninvited neighbors.

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