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Ways to Fight the Ants in Your Apartment

Author: Elina Sivak
by Elina Sivak
Posted: Sep 19, 2017

In the season of spring heat and summer, ants can become a big problem for the owners of the house. Especially, ants can cause problems for those people who live on the lower floors or in a private house. Once a year in the nest appears a lot of winged ants, males and females. They can easily get into the house and under favorable conditions create a new family breeding hundreds and thousands of insects.

There are several ways how to deal with ants in an apartment:

Before you start fighting with ants, spend a few moments watching them. The thing is that these insects live in large families, where each member of the community has a different purpose. Working ants gather food and carry it into the nest in their abdomens. If you notice where they are crawling (often forming visible tracks of scurrying insects), you can find a nest or make sure that they come to you only for food.

The chemical industry suggests using gels, aerosols, soluble poisons in the fight against these insects. Each of them is effective in its own way, but also all these chemical solutions have their disadvantages. They have only two drawbacks: they are harmful to people and ants often get used to them.

Most of all insecticides for fighting ants contain substances that are very harmful to our health. If there is an opportunity to leave the premises for disinfection for at least three days, then it is okay to use chemical means of ants’ treatment. In case if there is no place to spend a night or two, but you are tired to have these crawling creatures as your neighbors, then use special traps filled with solid substance or granules that attract insects. The ants take away the particles of this poison to their nests and then the whole anthill is infected. It is important to place them around the house carefully, so that they are not accessible to children and pets.

If special chemical solutions are ineffective or one of the family members has a tendency to allergies, you will have to use folk remedies of getting rid of ants. One of the most effective means in the fight against ants is bait with boric acid. To do this use hard-boiled egg yolk and mix it with something sweet such as honey or sugar. Some people also add jam. After that, add 20 g of boric acid to this mixture. Next, you need to make small balls out of the mixture and place them in "suspicious" places. In a day you will see a lot of dead insects. The method is good because ants pass on poison to anthill, and as a result, all the ant nests and the female itself are exterminated.

If you feel that you cannot cope with ants on your own, you can check out on the Internet ants control in Edmonton and find the perfect solution to your problem..

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Author: Elina Sivak

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