Ants are sometimes (or can always be) annoying. Killing ants inside or outside your home would seem like a child’s play. Those things we do to them when we were seven? They are actually practiced by grownups. The only difference is that no one could ever dare stop them from killing those tiny culprits - from pouring hot waters to breaking their single piles and torturing the flying ants by plucking their wings off one by one. Because of this, here are some effective styles in exterminating those irritating insects inside your house or on your backyard:
1. Maintain cleanliness
First things first. As most people say, prevention is better than cure. So, as ants feed mostly by leftovers over our plates, unwashed dishes on a kitchen sink, and dead insects lying around your backyard for quite some time, thus, it makes cleanliness the proper way of preventing attacks from these minute workers. Without possible food to take within your vicinity, the chances are so slim that these ants will be on your window jams and leaked walls. Washing the plates immediately every after dining makes a good practice in doing away ants. Cleaning the dining table and leaving no skids of juices and sodas is also advisable.
2. Murder the queen
Unlike Queen Elizabeth, the ant queen isn’t the virgin kind. She is somewhat the mass producer of workers in a colony. Killing the source is a vital move. Hence, there will be no more production of ants and the rest of the colony will be history.
By the way, queen ants can be found in the nests. They are the type which are anti-social. Or perhaps, shy. Unlike, again, Queen Elizabeth.
3. Snipe the messenger
Ants have this tactics where a single worker is sent to find possible food source. After a successful mission, the said ant would then return to the colony and announce the good news, ‘We have food!’ So, the workers then will go to the area where their prospected food lays and carry it over to the colony. With this method, you can easily kill the solo ant so that there will be no news for the colony which could lead to exodus.
4. Secure the area
Apart from cleaning the table, the plates, and the kitchen, your food containers must be an air-tight type. This way, ants could not penetrate to your containers and there will be no food for them for the rainy days. Plus, your food is more secure from spoiling immediately.
Also, seal the leaks on your walls where ants could possibly find its way inside your premises. Fasten also the corners of your wall and floor to cover up their possible point of entry.
5. Fire in the hole
This approach is the most exciting one. Actually, this can better be called the genocidal approach. This is how it works: boil an enough amount of water and pour it on the nests. This is where the genocide comes to the picture. Simple.
However, the only thing that you must consider is that you have to locate first the nest which requires extra effort. But, well, not that time consuming. All you have to do is follow the pile of workers to where they will store their food. And, viola! Mission accomplished.
There are still a lot of ways in killing ants. But these methods mentioned above are so far the best way since it will not require you to spend a lot of money and consume a huge amount of time.
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