Ants - in a sense, useful beings, but falling into a person's dwelling, especially in the kitchen, create a problem. How to get rid of ants in the kitchen, if they have already appeared? Noticing these uninvited guests, you need to immediately engage in the fight against them, until the problem has become global.
What to do if small ants appeared in the kitchen
First of all, it is necessary to make ants in the kitchen feel not comfortable. For this you need:
- Do not leave dirty dishes;
- do daily wet cleaning and vacuuming;
- washing and kitchen table wipe with a cloth with vinegar;
- all sweets to keep in closed dishes;
- Do not leave crumbs and food remnants.
Get rid of food residues - it will help in the fight against ants
If there are pets: cats or dogs, change them daily food, as ants can be in animal bowls in a dry stern. Do not put your pets food to the floor, if they put, then wipe there, where the food lay, so that there were no spots and crumbs on the floor.
Such measures will help ants forget the way to your kitchen. In the event that such prevention did not help, then you need to act more radically.
Wrestling ants
Before switching to the use of chemicals, try the means, harmless to people, but destructive for these annoying insects.
At home, they may be very effective.
Preparation of the mixture to fight ants
- Take a glass of any jam and pour into it a teaspoon of boric acid and a couple of tea spoons of yeast. Spread the resulting mixture on flat plates with a thin layer and leave there where these insects appear. Often this happens enough, and it is not necessary to resort to other ways.
- Also once in 7 days, wipe the trails of insect garlic: he knocks on the path of ant intelligence officers and they lose their way.
- It is possible in places of insects to spray water with some detergent liquid, adding several droplets of essential orange oil into the solution.
- Help to scare mint ants, lavender, wormwood and elderly. They must be distributed throughout the house. Insects are also not the smell of detergents, talc, red and black pepper, cinnamon. All this can be scattered near the thresholds, along the walls.
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Place of accumulation of ants
- In places of concentration of insects, you can decompose the coffee grounds - it should help solve the problem.
- To avoid penetration of insects from the street, the foundation of the house is treated with creosote.
If all of these methods do not help destroy the ants, then you can go to the store bait and act according to the instructions attached to them.
Some people are interested, why destroy ants, do they really bring some harm? Since these insects are omnivores, then a bucket with garbage, breadnie or sugar bowl attracts them equally. They travel everywhere, like flies or cockroaches become unspecified peddlers of various harmful microbes. The level of threat is determined by the state of the garbage bucket in your kitchen.
Anti-nest
Wire with such an opponent is not easy, but really. The main thing is to know the principle of life insects. Inside the forming colony there is a nest, in which females produce offspring. They never leave the nest and eat food for themselves, they are provided by the feed workers.
Finding an ant nest is difficult enough. It is always well hidden somewhere under the floor or in the wall. Being looking for a nest can be in disrepair and tiles, and parquet. Therefore, it is necessary to act differently: try to feed the females and larvae with poison through the working individuals who wear food. But then the content of boric acid that destroys the body of the ant must be small so that it does not die instantly, but brought the poison to the nest of the colony.
Some methods of fighting ants
There are many different ways to get rid of ants in the kitchen. Here is some of them:
- Take 3 potatoes, 3 eggs, a teaspoon of sugar, 1 boric acid bag. Tubers and eggs cook and clean. Email shell and proteins. From potatoes and yolks to prepare puree, providing it with sugar and boric acid powder. Mix well, make balls and put them where insects appear. To trace so that they cannot get a drink anywhere.
- Another way: Take meat minced meat (2 spoons), miscast boric acid in it (12 teaspoon) and decompose where insects appear.
Artificial Artificial Flowers in the Interior House
There are other ways to combat ants. Buy RAID (dichlofos) and treat them corners, plinths, slits - all paths of movement of insects.
Raid trap
- Raid operates well (traps). It contains granules that insects drag into their nest. There is a damage to the anthill from the inside, and all insects are dying.
- Effective gel "Raptor". It acts as follows: Ants, eating a bait, turn into bearers of poison and distribute it on other insects. The gel holds moisture for a very long time and remains thick, so attracts insects for 8 months. It is safe for humans and pets.
- Good spray "Frontline", although it is quite expensive (up to 200 rubles), but saves fleas, ants, ticks and cockroaches. You can buy it in veterinary pharmacies.
- Preparation "Regent". A small bag worth up to 10 rubles. The contents of the package must be divorced in water and a syringe with a needle to injected into all the slots and holes.
Gel Raptor from Muravyev
You can scare ants using a special chalk or ultrasonic device.
Conclusion on the topic
Of all the above, the conclusion suggests such: it is easier to contain a dwelling in purity, prevent the accumulation of garbage and food waste in the kitchen room, which then look for funds and ways to combat ants.
Do not forget that the kitchen is the face of the hostess. If it is clean and bunned, then no insects will not settle there and you will not disturb.