Anti ants solutions

With the arrival of the warm weather, many of us begin to see lines of ants that walk undisturbed in outdoor areas of the house or inside, especially in the kitchen, including in cupboards and the sink.

These invasions can be fought in different ways. First, it is good to try to prevent the phenomenon with adequate measures.

If instead it is already too late for prevention, you can retract the ants through natural remedies. Only in the most desperate cases, when you are in front of very large and stubborn colonies then it will be appropriate to use chemical remedies.

Prevention against ants

Ants invade our homes especially with the arrival of spring and summer.
Being equipped with a very powerful sense of smell, they are able to experience even outside the smells coming from our pantries, especially those of sugary foods, which they are really greedy of.

For this, one of the main precautions to be taken will be to thoroughly clean the house and especially the kitchen.
So be careful especially with the crumbs of bread and pastries, which are often left lying around after meals.

Also the methodic and constant cleaning of the sink is very important.
Indeed, it is recommended to wash the dishes after each meal or at least leave them as little time as possible in the sink to avoid an invasion of ants in the kitchen.

Even the pantries, which are the favorite targets of the ants, must be kept in order and properly closed.

Another very important item to consider are then the cracks that may be on doors and windows. Ants in fact get into the house from the outside and always find a very easy passage through right where the fixtures are not completely sealed.

To fix this, it will be appropriate to close all the gaps.

You may proceed plastering every point such as window sills and door thresholds. Alternatively, you can use plaster or tape.

The important thing is that the operation is carried out accurately and the gaps are effectively barred from the outside.

Always considering the formidable smell of these insects, it will also be good to cultivate in the garden mint, since ants can not stand the smell of this plant.

If you do not have a garden, you can still place the pots with mint on the sill of the windows.

Natural remedies anti ants

If prevention has not proved to be entirely effective or if there was no time enough to put it in place, then it will be the case of the natural remedies to adopt in order to avoid that ants invade our home with the insect traps.

As already mentioned, the good sense of smell of the ants enables them to experience any type of odor. This virtue thay have can be exploited to our advantage, as there are many species that are unwelcome to the ants, which can then be used as effective repellents.

Among these substances are mainly mint, coffee and vinegar. Mint, for example, can be used in several ways, either to prevent the ants approaching both to move them away after they got into the house.

It will therefore be an effective remedy to put some crushed leaves of mint on windowsills or near the doors. Similarly, it will be useful also to use tea bags and mint, to be placed in such handouts.

Coffee instead will be very useful to prevent the ants to pass the access points.
Mixed with talcum powder, coffee beans are an excellent repellent against these insects. To keep ants away are also very effective the essential oils, especially eucalyptus and cajeput.

Suitably mixed with some ethyl alcohol, these two oils, sprayed through a nebulizer exactly on favorite ants trails, will emit all their beneficial effect.

Also vinegar is an excellent remedy against ants and can be used to do this in two ways.
It can be dissolved in water together with a few drops of lemon essential oil and sprayed via nebulizer in front of the access points or on the infested areas, or it can be used for the cleaning of the floor.

In both cases, the pungent smell of vinegar will help in fighting ant colonies settled at home or those about to get in.

Chemical remedies anti ants

If ants are very aggressive and natural remedies don't keep them away, we must have the recourse, as a last resort, of the of chemical remedies. On the market there are several solutions.

The least invasive is undoubtedly the anti ant bait. It is a small box containing a harmful substance for the ants.

Once placed the bait right on the usual path of the ants, they will eat the substance and will also take it to the anthill. Before you get the desired effect, and the ants are then eliminated, it will take time.

Same goes for the insecticide dust, which must be properly mixed with water and sprayed in the areas occupied by the ants. Finally, for a much faster action, you can use sprays containing a highly concentrated insecticide solution that eliminates the ants on site and free up almost instantly all points infested by insects.