How to Get Rid of Ants

Kill the Queen
The best way to get rid of ants is to destroy the source: the queen ant. It produces a large number of ants, and, by killing her, you will destroy them. You will find “the queen” inside the anthill – it is quite shy and screams at the bottom. How to Identify a Queen Ant – it is larger than the other ants in a colony, it has wings (90%), queen ant’s thorax is much bigger other ant’s thorax.

Close “the restaurant” for ants
Reason why the ants are coming to our humble home is that there are free food for all (or at least found, and now they hope to be back). If the house is clean ants will find less food for themselves and will look for it elsewhere.

SMASH the scouts
Colonies often send individual ants to find food sources. If you see an ant walking around at your desk, do not let him be alive returned into the anthill, because it will say the colony where you have spilled apple juice.

Barricade your home
As the ants are very small, they can find thousands of entrances to your home. Some of these inputs can be easily seen, and others you will discover only when you see a column of ants marching through them. Try closing or pasting all passages.

Destroy anthill
If ants still haunt the house, you’ll have to do the same to do their house. If youcan locate an anthill, pour in it a few liters of boiling water and you will solve the problem.

Few facts: ants often avoid cinnamon, queens have wings and a very large abdomen, planting mint around your house and yard can deter ants…