Ant Treatment





Whatever country you come to, you will definitely meet one of the varieties of ants that crawl somewhere and always carry something. Unlike other types of insects, ants are rare guests in residential buildings and premises, as they feel great in nature and build their own homes, the design of which is much more complicated than human houses. However, people are constantly changing the world, rebuilding nature for themselves, and the hardworking ants, losing their normal habitat, move to where they are not waiting at all - in your home. Processing from ants is a very popular pest control procedure today, and if you decide to independently remove insects, then this process will take you a lot of time and will require great patience from you.

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Where do ants come from in houses?

The number of ants is huge - they make up about 80% of all insects and about 20% of all animal biomass. At first glance, the ants are not our enemies, and we could live peacefully with them. But some species of ants pose a serious threat, for example, termites can completely destroy wooden buildings and eat all the furniture, and the tree is eaten from the inside and only the shell remains. Many consider “red” ants to be their enemies, who do not care where to live: in a house, in a summer cottage, or in a city apartment.

If a couple of insects appeared in your apartment, then of course there will be no harm from them. But it is highly likely that very soon a whole colony will live with you, since innocuous goosebumps breed at a fantastic speed. Do not also ignore the ability of insects to move, because to find food, they are able to move away from the nesting at a distance of up to 200 m.Therefore, if today you notice uninvited guests, and tomorrow there are already a bit more, processing from ants is definitely necessary.

Places of ants in the house

Let us single out several necessary conditions for the resettlement of an ant colony:

• Source of constant heat.
• A source of water and food near the nesting site.
• High humidity.
• Lack of light.
• Hide from human eyes.

All these conditions are ideally matched by a variety of angles, crevices, spaces located behind the furniture.

Important! Most often, the colony settles near sources of food, moisture and heat, that is, in the kitchen or in the bathroom, because the diet of insects is mainly sweet or flour products, as well as meat and fish.

The reasons for the appearance of ants in the house

The reasons for the appearance of ants in your house may be:

1. Unsanitary conditions and irregular garbage collection. Goosebumps appear in the room with only one purpose - to find food, and they consider the crumbs, dirty dishes and a full bin as an invitation to a meal.
2. Etching ants in neighbors. These insects are incredibly tenacious and adapt to any living conditions. If your neighbors harassed, the scouts will find new places for nests and transfer the colony to a safer place (that is, in your apartment). It is impossible to insure yourself against unexpected guests, as ants crawl through even the thinnest gaps. In this case, only simultaneous treatment from ants will help.
3. The onset of cold weather. Since ants are warm-blooded insects, and in warm weather they live in nature, then with the onset of cold weather, the insects will immediately move to warmer rooms, that is, to your apartment or house.
4. Penetration through open doors and windows. More often this option is observed during the period of active reproduction, at a time when adult individuals acquire wings, which means they get an additional opportunity to move.
5. An accident.Insect larvae can be without food for a long time, which means that you can accidentally bring an infected object into the apartment without even knowing about it. It can be clothes, furniture and other household items. Even adults can be brought accidentally to their home, and since the ants leave a trail of pheromones behind them, their relatives will soon come from the street, and the colony will grow rapidly.

Important! Regardless of what was the main reason for the settlement of insects in your house, you first need to put the house in order, remove all the garbage and food from free access, and then the ants are disinfected.

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Species of ants

In nature, there are more than 6,000 species of ants, and only a few of them prefer to settle near people.

Red ants

The most common species is a “house” or redhead ant. He was brought to us from the tropics and lived in the wild.

Important! This species is characterized by a small size: an adult reaches 2-2.5 mm in length. The main part of the colony are working individuals. The size of the colony depends on the number of females (1-200), while working individuals can be about a million.

Red ants have a yellow body color, are populated in places inaccessible to humans:

• For wallpaper and baseboards.
• In the crevices of the floor and foundation.
• In household appliances.
• Clothes.

The anthill is never located in one place. In the apartment you can find several nests connected by paths. Due to the nature of resettlement, the appearance of red ants is very difficult to destroy, so if you find exactly the “Pharaoh's” ant in the house, you will have to process the entire apartment.

Yellow ants

Another species that can live next to you is the “yellow thief ant”. This type of insect settles mainly in country houses, preferring basement floors and cellars. Most often, this type of insect comes from the street.

Young females arrange breeding places in comfortable house crevices, and after some time, the anthill grows, and already adult working individuals penetrate all living quarters in search of food.

Important! Treatment from ants of this type needs as effective as when any other type of insect appears.

Other species

Less often in houses and apartments you can find "wild" ants. In particular:

• "Red" ants. This species usually comes from the street, but does not linger for a long time, since only in the forest can insects find the necessary amount of food.
• "Carpenter". Ants of this species can settle in the walls of country houses, but unlike termites, they do not completely destroy the tree, but only spoil it by gnawing tunnels.
• "Garden". This type of insect needs an impressive anthill, and therefore rarely settles next to a person. Nevertheless, “garden” ants are able to harm agriculture by planting aphids on the stems and leaves of garden plantings. Therefore, if they have already reached your home, then there are a lot of them on the site. In this case, it is urgent to think about the fact that the treatment from ants should be fast-acting. Otherwise, the crop will be far from the one you planned.

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Pest control

Small ants can cause big problems, because they, crawling around the house, not only spoil the products and climb into all the cracks, including household appliances. Such insects can be carriers of dangerous bacteria that cause dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid, plague and other diseases, and the bite of these small insects can cause allergies. So, it is better to let them live in the forest, and not in your house or on the site.

Independent breeding of ants does not always lead to the desired result, since nesting insects are most often hidden from our eyes and it is difficult to detect them.In addition, ordinary poisons and dichlorvos can be useless, since ants quickly get used to poisons, and if you do not completely destroy the colony, it will quickly restore its number, and it will be much more difficult to remove it.

High-quality disinsection of ants is the destruction of the entire colony at once, so if goosebumps settled in a house or apartment, then proceed as follows:

1. Explore insect routes. Observing the “hard workers-pests", trace their paths and figure out where the anthill is.
2. Destroy the “enemy bunker". For processing, use chemical preparations, as well as special equipment that can ensure that poisons get into the most inaccessible places. Just filling in the entrance of the anthill or destroying it is not enough. None of the popular methods are suitable either, since the anthill has a lot of exits and tunnels. To destroy nesting, special, very small capsules with poison are needed that can destroy not only adults, but also their larvae.
3. Treat all the places in the apartment or house to destroy the remaining living insects and protect the house from the repeated invasion of parasites. For this purpose, apply insecticides - treat all rooms in an apartment or house at the same time, so that the effect is significant.

Important! For the treatment of ants in the country, use the same means and methods. The difference is only in scale, because on the site there can be not one ant hill, but several. In addition, it is necessary to cultivate the soil and trees in order to consolidate the result.

Helpful hints:

• During the disinfestation of ants in the apartment and the house should not be pets and people.
• Disinsect the premises twice with an interval of several days.
• After processing, after about a day, wet the house.
• In addition to chemicals, boric acid can be used to kill ants. It corrodes the chitinous cover of insects, thereby destroying them. Treat the anthill with acid to destroy the uterus.

Important! In the future, for the purpose of prevention, use garlic, mint, tansy, wormwood, elderberry and other plants to repel insects.

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How to carry out pest control?

It is better not to fight alone with a serious opponent, which is an ant, but to entrust the matter to professionals.

Advantages of professional pest control:

• Processing is faster and more efficient.
• There is no need to buy chemicals, which means there is no threat to health.
• Pest control is carried out by specialists with extensive experience who are familiar with the habits of insects and their lifestyle, and accordingly - they know what and how to use in a particular situation.
• Availability of special equipment and preparations that have passed certification.
• After processing, you will receive a guarantee that during the year, or maybe two, not one insect will not disturb you. Otherwise, the service will carry out the disinsection of ants for free.
• The apartment will not leave any traces after processing. Wallpaper, furniture or parquet will retain their original appearance.
• There is no strong odor left in the house.

Preparation for the procedure

To protect residents, before the arrival of specialists, carry out the following procedures:

1. Pack and take away all products.
2. Take out animals and fish.
3. Preliminary wet cleaning inside the house.
4. Remove all obstructed objects and carpeting.
5. Leave the room at the time of processing.

After treatment at home:

1. Ventilate all rooms and rooms well.
2. Vacuum the apartment.
3. Wet the furniture.
4. Wash the dishes and wipe the working surfaces of the tables.
5. Wet floor cleaning on the second or third day after processing the premises.

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Stock footage

You can endlessly watch and admire the industriousness of small insects. However, let them live and work better in the vast expanses of the forest, and not in our homes, because there is practically no benefit from such neighbors, but only harm.Take advantage of our tips and tricks, entrust pest control to professionals so that small but far from harmless insects will never disturb you.