Small ants can become big problem. Just you saw one tiny muravyishka, but through some time on your kitchen already whole hordes march. If at your place there live children and animals if you – the allergic person, to you hardly wants to use chemicals to leave these aggressors. It is good that there are simple house methods of fight against ants.
It is required to you
- Boric acid
- Lavender extract
- The chlorocontaining cleansers
- Fruit jelly
- Sugar syrup
- Cornmeal
Instruction
1. For a start carry out clear-out in all house, paying special attention to kitchen. Remove far away food, hermetically close products, especially sugar. Vacuum carpets, regiments, walk on all slots special nozzle. Wash up floor warm soapsuds with several drops of lavender. Wipe all surfaces and counters with the sponge, the wetted in solution of water and chlorine-containing cleanser. Later rinse them with lavender water.
2. Find places of penetration of ants into your house, their "trodden" paths. Strew slots and ant footpaths with powder of red pepper. Pepper can be replaced with carnation, mint or bay leaf.
3. Now it is a high time to prepare traps. Buy tubules for cocktails, boric acid and fruit to jelly, on the basis of gelatin. Kindle jelly in pan, add acid. Cut tubule on pieces on 2 - 3 centimeters and fill each piece of jelly with acid somewhere to half. Spread out straws along plinths. Within several days the part which has remained free has to be filled with dead ants.
4. One more way to feed ants with this poison – to mix boric acid with sugar syrup and to impregnate with this solution cotton balls. Put the impregnated balls in plastic containers with holes for access and place on ant tracks.
5. Feed ants with cornmeal. They will not be able to resist this delicacy, but will not be able to digest it therefore such gluttony will not bring them to good. Place on the house plastic lids from under lemonade or mineral water with the flour filled there.