Ants Invading Your Home? Expert Tips! 5 Simple and Effective Ways to Repel Ants

Why are there ants in the house?

• Cold weather, ants come in for warmth
• Dry weather, ants come in to look for water
• There's food in the house.

How to get rid of ants?

• Homemade ants medicine:
  • 100 g water + 25 g sugar + 2 g borax
• Non-toxic insecticide:
  • 4 g ground black pepper + 200 g water, sprayed
• Essential Oil Spray
• Apply chili water.
• Insecticide

Why do ants like to come to my house?

Understand the enemy to destroy the enemy.

▋ Summer

The hotter the temperature, the more active the ants are. 26~32 degrees Celsius is the favorite weather for ants.

At this time, the queen ants are laying many eggs and developing fast, and the ant colony has a high demand for food, so it is easy to see ants running to their homes to forage for food.

(But you don't usually stay at your place in the summer.)

▋ Winter

In winter, ants are less active, they cannot find fruits to eat in the wild, and other insects have gone dormant, so the colony is in a food shortage.

The warmth, food and water in a human's home is a paradise for ants, so it is only natural for them to live in your home.

▋ Ants like small spaces.

Therefore, we can often find ants living in the sockets, appliances and computer hosts.

▋ Causes of Ant Invasion

• There's a lot of food in the house.
• Easy access to water at home
• Warmer and more comfortable at home

▋ Where do ants live in your home?

• Dark, cramped, warm, humid environment
• sockets
• electric appliance
• Cabinet Seams

The Dangers of Household Ants

Ants also have different personalities. Some are timid; some are irritable.

Cowardly ants will run away the moment they touch you, for exampleTimid ants will run away the moment they touch you, such as crazy ants

( Paratrechina longicornis )The ants are more harmless than the ants, but the angry ants will try to attack you instead.

▋ Ant hazard level

A large percentage depends on their personality.

Ants that like to bite, such as Ghost Ant

Tapinoma melanocephalum . They are numerous and like to sneak up on you from time to time, and although they are not venomous, they are very annoying.

▋ Household pest ants are usually non-toxic.

It's not a big deal to be bitten, but if you have babies or pets at home, there is still a possibility of injury. If you feel unwell after being bitten, please be sure to seek medical help.

Besides that, pest ants will also destroy your furniture in order to live in it, and if they walk on your food, they may contaminate the food, not to mention invading your potted plants that you have planted carefully.

Except for the red fire ants.The doctor said that he had been stung and asked for emergency medical treatment!

Ant Repellent vs Ant Killing - Which one is better?

If it kills ants, it's toxic.

Depending on the dosage, adults usually don't have to worry about it if it is used correctly, but if babies and pets accidentally ingest it, it may lead to poisoning, so you need to use your own discretion.

▋ Poisoning of ants

The results are usually very good and can be seen within a short period of time, and are recommended for use in homes where there is no concern about food inadvertence.

▋ There are ways not to kill.

Although it takes longer, at least it is better in the heart; it is safer, my Buddha is compassionate.

Pros and Cons of Ant Killing

• Fast and effective
• It could be compromised in the future.
• Risk of Misuse

▋ Pros and Cons of Ant Repellent

• Slower and less effective
• No risk of accidental ingestion, suitable for children, pets family
• No kill, No commit sins, my Buddha is merciful.

Ant Control Methods | Comparison of Effectiveness

Sugar water bait

• Water 100 g
• Sugar 25 g ( any sugar will do )
• Borax 2 g

Stir well, then put it in a small dish or bottle with lid and put it in the corner of your home or the place where ants pass by.

The ants will not die immediately after eating the poisonous sugar water. Instead, they will take the poisonous sugar water home and share it with their family, and when the queen ants in the nest eat it, the toxicity will gradually take effect, and eventually all the ants in the nest will be dehydrated and die.

▋ This is recognized as the most effective way to get rid of pest ants in your home, but it will take some time, say 1 to 3 weeks.

(Source: Papers. Laboratory Evaluation of Ant Baits on Colonies of Ghost Ants, Tapinoma melanocephalum )

Black Pepper Water

• 200 g water
• 4 g black pepper
• Shake well and spray at the ants.

The principle is to utilize the pungent ingredients of black pepper - Piperine Eliminate the ants.

Spray black pepper water directly onto ants and ants' nests, and you will see the death of ants on the 2nd day.

▋ It's also an easily available, non-toxic insecticide for pets and babies.

(Source: Papers. Household Ingredients to Control Ant Populations )

Commercially available ant poison bait

Whether ant poison bait is effective or not depends on whether the ants eat it or not, and whether the ants eat it or not depends on their preferences and tastes.

There are two types of ants medication available in the market, liquid (gel) form and granular form, which are tailored to the tastes of different ants and can be purchased according to the types of pests in your home.

For example, ants that love grease. Tetramorium nipponense it prefers taro chips than sugar water, and liquid bait is less effective because he doesn't want to eat it.

In this case, it is more suitable to put in granular ant poison bait as these ants like to carry solid food home for consumption.

▋ Types of Baits for Common Pest Ants

• Liquid (Gel)
  • Ghost Ant
  • Monomorium
  • Pharaoh Ant
  • Crazy Ant

• Solid (granular)
  • Fire Ant
  • Pheidole
  • Tetramorium

Essential oil repellent

Ants can sense odors and essential oils are good repellents, ants will try to stay away from the place where essential oils are applied.

Dilute the essential oil with alcohol and spray or apply it on the path of ants, it can significantly keep ants away from the area.

But only if you use real, expensive essential oils that have real results.Eugenol The more content; the better the results.

(e.g. 5g for $20 USD)

▋ Essential oils that effectively repel ants

• Camphor Essential Oil
• Eucalyptus oil
• Clove Essential Oil

(Source: Papers - Repellency of an Over-the-Counter Essential Oil Product in China against Workers of Red Imported Fire Ants )

Chili water

Chili peppers contain capsaicin, which will stimulate the senses of living creatures. Ants will try to stay away from areas with irritating odors, so applying chili pepper water and spraying it on the paths that ants must pass through can achieve the effect of repelling ants.

Common Household Pest Ants

For more information, judgment and elimination methods, please go to :

▋ Diagram of Common Household Pests | How to Determine | How to Remove

Ghost Ants ( Tapinoma melanocephalum )

Pharaoh Ant ( Monomorium pharaonis )

Monomorium

Tetramorium nipponense

Pheidole

Tropical Fire Ants ( Solenopsis geminata )

Invasive Fire Ants ( Solenopsis invicta )

How to prevent ants in your home?

After you have solved the present ants, you still need to prevent the future ants.

Reducing the resources available to the ants will reduce the chances of ants invasion

▋ Prevention Checklist

• Food put away properly.
  • Don't let the ants found the food.
• Reduced water supply
  • Drainage table beads, water fountains, wet bathrooms
• Reduces gaps
  • Closet compartments, broken wall corners

What should I do if ants crawl into my pet's bowl?

For those who have cats and dogs, this must happen, ants are stealing the pet feed.

Pets may be poisoned by insecticides, pets may accidentally ingest commercially available ant poisons, and some essential oils are toxic to cats and dogs, so I do not recommend applying poisons or essential oils to families with pets.

▋ Use ant-proof bowls

There are many ant control products in the market, such as ant control bowls and ant control mats. The principle of these products is to make ants unwilling to climb up the ants by using zigzag and complicated shapes, but the effect is not perfect. If the ants insist to climb, anti-ant mats are ineffective.

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▋ Anti-Escape | Species of Organisms

• Ants
• Cockroaches
• Spiders
• Geckos
• Caterpillar

▋ Anti-Escape | Where to Apply

• Table legs
• Under the pet bowl.
• Footrest
• potted plant
• Any smooth, vertical surface

▋ Anti-Escape | Features

• Non-toxic to babies and pets ( but still not edible )
• Effectiveness lasts 1 ~ 2 years, can be reapplied when it fails.
• Waterproof for outdoor use

How to estimate the number of ants?

Only a small number of ants will be sent out to look for food. Most of the ants will stay quietly in their nests and usually, human beings only have the chance to see 10~20 % ants.

▋ Number of ants seen x 5 times = Total nest population

If you find 100 ants wandering around in your home, there are at least 400 to 1000 ants in their nests.

Beware of Wrong Formulas

▋ "I’ve made ant poison baits before, but they didn’t work.”"

Many people have this experience, but why?

We have found that the ant medicine formulas that you were told about on other websites.It's all a big mistake!

for example

• Powdered sugar 2 : Borax 1
• Powdered sugar 3 :Borax 1

These are terrible recipes.It is not only unappealing to ants (because of the high percentage of borax), but also highly toxic to humans (because of the high percentage of borax), and more importantly, the dosage is very lethal to pets.

▋ Chopping away at the root of the problem will help.

The mechanism of ant medicine is not the more borax, the better.