Ants are natural workers. Watching how hard they build their home, dragging building materials and food, many times exceeding them in size and weight, causes not only admiration, but even envy. However, often these lovely creatures penetrate into the human abode to replenish their food reserves, and sometimes settle there. On the other hand, in the garden or the garden, these fellows manage to grow aphids, which, living on cultivated plants, destroy them.
Preventive protection against ants
The best remedy for ants is compliancepurity. If the ant-scout finds a pair of edible crumbs on the floor of your house, then the worker ant will immediately call. And if they determine that there is enough food in the house to feed the entire colony, the whole anthill will immediately move there.
Before you poison the ants, you should limitim way into the house. To do this, you can sprinkle some places of penetration with ordinary salt. Vertical planes of door jambs, windows and walls can be depicted with chalk. Ants avoid contact with calcium carbonate in the composition of the chalk.
The sharp smell of citrus fruits will scare off insects ifpour lemon juice door sills or put orange peels around the base of the house. They can not stand the smell of garlic, as well as the smell of anise, onion, wormwood, fish, sunflower oil. They do not like soot and ash.
Extensive surfaces can be treated with acetic solution. To prevent the penetration of pets in the dishes, its edges should be coated with petroleum jelly.
Ants, like all living things, can not live without water. Therefore, for a long time leaving unattended a house in the suburban area, it is worthwhile to block any access of insects to the water.
Ways and means of getting rid of ants
If ants still found a way to groceryreserves, it is necessary to temporarily transfer them to a more inaccessible place, and here everything is thoroughly washed with the use of detergents with a strong odor or chlorine content. After a while, insects will forget the road and leave.
Traps are an effective means of getting rid ofants. In places of active movement of insects, you can disassemble the adhesive tape, and for reliability, put a fragrant bait next to it. Baits can lure ants into some kind of vessel, sponge, and then take them out to the yard or pour boiling water.
When they settle in the house, drive them outbecomes more difficult. Here you need to use such an ant-cure, which will affect the entire anthill. Good poison from ants is prepared from ordinary or brewer's yeast with the addition of honey or jam. Some insects do not digest corn or wheat flour, but they gladly eat it or put it in an anthill, where the colony also feeds on this flour and dies of indigestion.
Discovered in the house anthill should be immediately destroyed, pouring into it nicotine water, which is prepared by tincture of pipe tobacco on the water for a day.
Anthills in the courtyard can be destroyed by pouring boiling water on them. Alternative means from ants - to spread around their dwellings gruel from milled orange and lemon crusts.
If the anthill is very large, then it is necessarymake on its top a kind of crater, pour in it of baking soda and pour acetic acid. The substances released during the chemical reaction and gases fill all the pores of the anthill, which will lead to its complete destruction.
The stores offer a large selection of means from ants: crayons, gels, poisoned baits. In some cases it is worth turning to the services of Sanitary and Epidemiological Station.
However, do not forget that in the naturalbalance of life these insects - an important link. Experiencing another means of ants in your own garden or in the suburban area, first of all, it is worth considering, but is it really hampered by this anthill? Is it worth destroying these insects - the orderlies of the forest (garden)? Will it not bring more harm than good?
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