Ants are very useful on the street, but in the house they create a lot of trouble: they crawl in the garbage, get into the water tap, eat food, settle in furniture, old things and household appliances. And now it will be rather difficult to drive away uninvited guests to the threshold of their home. It is much more effective to lay out special traps along the paths and paths of these tireless tiny workers.
Purchased traps
Now there are 3 types of traps for household ants, but the most popular are These are ingenious bait with poison.
Electric
Workers die from electric shock. But the bait is not effective in relation to queens and individuals living deep in the colony.
Glue
Attracted by the smell, the hard-working ants stick. Also, the trap is ineffective in respect of individuals remaining in the anthill.
Poisonous
Eating powder or liquid, the insect brings poison into the nest, after which it dies and other relatives poison. The poison is in special containers with small holes, this makes the trap safe for the inhabitants of the house (children, turtles or dogs).
DIY ant trap
If time allows, then you can easily build an ambush with your own hands:
- Put plastic bag of boric acid mixed with sweet syrup into plastic caps.
- Lay out the poisoned bait under the table, next to the slots in the floor, ventilation shafts, in the pantry and other places of meeting with pests.
Trying the sweetness Workers ants infect their relatives and die. You need to periodically check the "ant ambush" and add poison. Unsolicited residents are also scared off by the smell of mint, shag, bay leaf, wormwood, cloves and garlic. Sprinkle or grease with strong-smelling ingredients where they accumulate. If the insects still remain, then turn off the water and arrange cleaning: throw out the scrub from the kitchen, change the floors, wipe the wardrobe - this is how the den will be revealed.
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Useful materials
Then you can get acquainted with articles that may be useful and interesting to you:
- Ants in the apartment:
- Uterus of domestic ants
- Red ants in the apartment
- Black ant
- Pharaoh ant
- Yellow and brown ants
- Ant extermination:
- How to get rid of red ants in the apartment?
- Boric acid and borax from ants
- Folk remedies for ants in the apartment and house
- Rating of effective means of ants in the apartment
- Ants in the garden:
- Species of ants
- How do ants hibernate?
- Who are the ants?
- What do ants eat?
- The value of ants in nature
- Hierarchy of ants: the king of the ant and the structural features of the working ant
- How do ants breed?
- Ants with wings
- Forest and garden ants, as well as the ant reaper
- How to get rid of ants in the garden?