How to deal with ants in the house?

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Helga Wasilenko, 31.10.2006 15:03

There are ants in the house! maybe someone knows how to get them out and what products deserve attention? I'm so sick of them!

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25.08.2008 16:25, mikee

Girls, I know how to fight ants..
simple, cheap, angry..proven
and non-toxic
buy land for flowers, in a bag, costs about 35 rubles..
we put uninvited residents next to the place where there is a cluster,
they think that they have brought a new anthill, and they move there, and most importantly, they transfer their female queen to this land.
You just wait for the package to fill with new residents, and take it far away..
Good luck.

I'm sorry to disappoint you. These ants form, as a rule, several families and do not live in the ground, but under baseboards, in ventilation, in books and other nooks and crannies

Do not like the cold very much. Mashenka chalk helps: smear a solid line along the baseboards and ceiling around the perimeter. But the fight will be long and difficult...

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26.08.2008 7:18, Bukashechnik

Yeah, getting a Pharaoh ant in the formicarium

. It is safer to keep bird-eaters or scorpions, cases of "prisoner escapes" are less frequent and the consequences are not so far-reaching

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Ants are repelled by a number of substances and, first of all, the smells of some plants. Sunflower oil has a strong deterrent effect, and to protect food products from the attack of ants, it is enough to lubricate the outer edges of food containers with oil. They are also deterred by the smells of walnut leaves, elderberry, tomatoes, wild mint, wormwood, garlic, and cloves. The use of poisoned baits is based on the fact that worker ants not only eat these baits themselves, but also feed them to queens and larvae, which leads to the gradual extinction of the ant family. Toxic substances in baits are deliberately taken in small amounts to allow worker ants to carry poisoned food to the nest and feed other insects. Using poisoned baits systematically for 2-2. 5 months, you can exterminate all ants in the rooms infected with them. The basis of most poisoned baits is borax (salt of tetraboric acid), a colorless crystalline substance, low-toxic for warm-blooded substances, widely used in the national economy. Common yeast is a very effective means of killing ants. From yeast, a thick paste is prepared on water, to which a little jam or honey is added. Eating this bait, ants die.

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29.08.2008 6:01, guest: sanya

I also suffered from goosebumps after moving to a new apartment. The first summer was even years old.
Settled
- under the baseboard and door jambs (where there were poorly sealed seams by builders),
- under the tile in the bathroom (the nest was found when the tile was changed),
- made several attempts to settle in flower pots, penetrating through drainage holes.

The pencil didn't help - they preferred to avoid brushstrokes. Insect traps and mixtures with boric acid were also ineffective.
Only some German remedy helped (a canister with a long tube at the end, from which foam is squeezed out). All suspicious cracks were processed several times over the course of several months, until they disappeared. In flower pots, he simply pulled out plants with a lump of earth, and scalded the rest with boiling water.
Later, 2 times they tried to return through the ventilation, but the spray can held back the second invasion.

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12.08.2010 14:50, Perreiro

Dear entomologists,!!! HELP!!!!
I have large ants in my dacha: fotki.yandex.ru/users/perreiro/view/236777/?page=0
The size of an ant in length is about 15 mm (ordinary forest - 8-10 mm). By their habits , they are like cockroaches: if they hear or see them, they hide, run very quickly, in jerks. Maybe someone knows who they are, how they live, how many nests, queens, etc. I visit the dacha once a week, so I can't observe the dynamics. They live in wood, no matter how the house is eaten!!!!! I would appreciate your feedback on the forum or on perreiro@ya.ru. Ready to send more photos or samples)

Arrived, it seems, inside the coil with the cable. At least 4 years ago, I observed them near the house, in pieces of a reel. I was happy for them, what beauties)))
And this year I noticed in the house, I began to understand - I found several holes from which they come. At the same time I saw 25 pieces (ants). They run away immediately.
I haven't started to poison you yet, PLEASE HELP me!!!

For comparison, the photo shows an ant and my nail. The size of the nail (along the axis of the finger, in the center-12 mm).

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