YELLOW ANTS IN THE APARTMENT: DESCRIPTION, WRECKING AND HOW TO GET RID

In our homes very often different insects appear. One of these "guests" are ants. These are not the forest and garden insects that randomly enter the dwelling, but home ants.

They differ from “street” ones in color, size and in that they settle in apartments consciously, because they find food for themselves in them.

Description

These household pests were brought to Russia from Europe and India with food in the 19th century.

At first, tenants find only a few individuals in their dwelling and usually do not pay attention to it. Then the ants become more and more and gradually they occupy a large space. Especially a lot of them become in the kitchen, where they have their favorite food. They are hiding in the furniture, under the baseboards, in the crevices of the floor. They can live anywhere in the apartment, they are found in bathrooms and even in beds. This becomes a big problem for residents.

House ants have very small sizes. The insect male is half as long as the female, whose length is usually no more than 6 mm. The color of such ants can be yellow or with a brown tint.

Ant families breed very quickly. This is because up to several dozen queens live in each insect colony, which breed every day.

Uterus live long enough, more than six months. During this time, they reproduce a huge number of offspring. Workers die a maximum of 2 months. They are responsible for obtaining food for queens.

How do they appear?

The warm lands of the insects are considered the homeland of the insects; therefore, with the onset of cold weather outside, they begin to look for a warmer habitat. For this they climb into houses on ventilation, sewage, pipelines, through cracks and cracks in the walls and floor. They can bring from the street on the shoes of any of the tenants.

IMPORTANT! For their habitat ants choose places with the greatest amount of food and fluids. They can eat any food suitable for human nutrition. Especially they are attracted to something sweet. They also love meat products.

Pests look for places where food lies on the surface. This means that the appearance of ants may be due to the fact that there is always easy prey in the kitchen in the apartment. For example, on the table there are always crumbs, jam and sugar in an easily accessible place, there are a lot of dirty dishes in the sink, water is poured on the floor.

It is possible that redhead guests came to you because their neighbors have survived from their former place of residence. Now they will explore new territories.

Sabotage

Ants, like other domestic insects - pests, bring a lot of trouble to residents. The worst of them - they carry different infections on their paws. First, they run in garbage bags and sewers, and then they take food, food cabinets, bread boxes, sugar bowls, and crawl around the dishes.

Insects spoil food, gnaw bread, live in containers with cereals and sugar, where it is impossible to extract them, because they are very small in size.

In addition, crawling everywhere small yellow parasites are just an unpleasant sight.

How to prevent?

Ants, of course, can appear for a variety of reasons. But still, to avoid this, you need to follow some rules.

The kitchen should always be clean and dry. Do not leave food on the table open. It is better to close them in bags, special closing cans, so that insects do not have access to food. Without it, the pest will not be able to live longer than three days, and, therefore, will look for food in another place.

It is necessary to wash the dishes in time and empty the garbage can. The sink and near it should be carefully wiped dry, so that the ants do not have the opportunity to get to the liquid.

How to get rid of yellow ants in the apartment?

Ants can not be destroyed mechanically, killing only those that are visible in the apartment. The founder of their colony is the uterus.

IMPORTANT! In order to get rid of the family of red pests completely, it is necessary to deprive them of the individual that infinitely produces offspring. Left without their leader, the rest of the individuals leave the home themselves.

Boric acid

If you fail find nest with acting uterus, it is necessary to make so that working individuals could bring there poisonous substances. One of the most effective and long-known means of combating domestic insects is boric acid. With its help, make a poison bait.

It is necessary to mix one boiled egg yolk with honey and unrefined vegetable oil. The smell of oil and sweet will be good to attract pests. In the resulting mass must be added boric acid, about half a bag. Mix well and form small balls. They will need to be expanded in places of accumulations of ants or on their paths, which usually do not change and are easy to identify. Working individuals will eat a tasty bait, take it to the nests with queen and offspring. Boric acid will do its job and the ants will gradually disappear from the apartment. This will take less than a month.

You can mix the acid with any other product or lay it on the room in its pure form.

Folk remedies

You can try to get rid of unwanted insects with the help of different plants that have strong and unpleasant odors. These include wormwood, mint, onion, garlic, bay leaf. It is necessary to expand them in places of the greatest concentration of ants. It will scare them away.

Sometimes kerosene is used to control pests. It is poured into the cracks, minks, cracks inhabited by ants.

Another method of fighting insects is regular table salt. She also fall asleep in their habitats.

Chemicals

If failed get rid of ants natural method have to use chemicals. Insecticides are produced in various forms to combat insects. It can be a powder, a piece of chalk, an aerosol or a gel.

During the purchase of such funds, you need to pay attention to the fact that it was directed to the fight against ants. In such preparations should be substances: diazinon, deltamethrin, cypermethrin. You can use the usual "dichlorvos".

IMPORTANT! Before using chemicals you should carefully read the instructions and act strictly with all regulations.

If you could not overcome pests and in this way, it is recommended to contact the relevant authorities with a request to conduct special treatment of the premises.

The fight against domestic insects is a necessary and time-consuming event. It is better to do so that brown ants do not appear in the apartment. If, however, this happened, they must be destroyed at an early stage of distribution. As their colonies increase, their struggle becomes more and more difficult. Do not postpone such events, and ants will have no place in your homes.