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The Ants Go Marching: How to Get Rid of an Infestation

Smith · June 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Ants are very opportunistic in nature and this makes getting rid of them quite challenging. If you have an ant infestation in your home, you would definitely want to try every possible way that you can use to get rid of them. Ants’ species can nest both indoors and outdoors and they also survive off various food sources and therefore, trying to starve them might only get rid of a specific species and so it is not a perfect option.

To successfully get rid of ants you must fumigate both inside and outside your house. There are many ways of getting rid of ants in the house. You can choose to use pesticides filled baits and sprays. Here are a few things that you can do to solve your ant problem.

Know the Ants

You will be surprised to find out that the ants in your house are only a portion of the ants outside. The queen lives in a nest laying more eggs and is fed by the worker ants. These are the ants that invade your home in search of food and water.

This is why killing only the ants inside the house will not solve the problem. Know the kind of species you are dealing with so that you can know the best way of reducing an ant infestation.

Clean Your House

This is a very important step as ants come inside the house because they are attracted to something and thorough cleaning of the house will eliminate all that the ants. Take your time to clean all surfaces, appliances, and cabinets and do not forget any dark places and cracks too.

Make sure that you keep food and food substances in sealed containers and eliminate water resources inside the house.

Try to DIY

As you clean your house, follow the ants to know where their colony is and once you find it try to get rid of it yourself. There are a lot of DIY methods that you can use to get the ants out of your home. You can buy sprays, traps, and poisons like boric acid that attracts and kills ants.

Be careful when using poison but do not forget to spray outside the house as well. There are safer methods from pest control buderim that you can use.

Hire a Professional for the Ant Infestation

If DIY methods do not work then it is time to call in the big muscles because large infestations always require professional pest control methods. Exterminators use various methods that include chemicals sprays to get rid of the ants.

This might put you out of your house for a while, but will definitely work and you will come back to ant-free home.

Fast Detection of Ant Infestation Is Key

Some ant’s species like the carpenter ants are hard to get rid of and it is important to detect such an ant infestation as early as you can. Do you have an ant problem in your home?

Read more on our blog on daily cleaning tips that are easy to follow which will help you get rid of ant’s successfully.

 

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