Ants

Negative Characteristics: Black and Red Garden Ants can be an irritation and they do bite if they feel threatened.

Redeeming Characteristics: Innocent garden dwellers where they search for flower nectar.

Quick Tips:

Thoroughly clean all areas where ants are seen, removing all potential food sources and storing it in sealed containers.
Best control is to eliminate the colony, not just target wandering individuals.
Use poison bait stations (natural or synthetic poisons are available) placed near to the areas of peak activity.
Make sure you keep replacing the bait until the ants stop feeding. Control will then be complete.

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Best Methods for Controlling your Pest

DIY or The Professional?

In far the majority of case it is easy to control garden ants yourself. .

There are two basic methods used to control ants.

Where ants are living outside and foraging inside your home for food you could use a barrier spray.
Where ants have established their nest inside your house then you should aim to eliminate the whole colony through poison baits.

Barrier Sprays: are designed to stop ants and other insects crossing a threshold such as a door step or window frame, ventilators, ducts and drains. Pay particular attention to areas where pipes enter the building such as under kitchen sinks. Barrier Sprays work by laying a residual (long-term, in the case of Dethlac up to about three months depending on conditions) band of insecticide across the route that the insects use to access the building.

Residual Insecticide Sprays: can be used where long-term protection is not needed as the aim is simply to eliminate the offending colony. These sprays may be effective for around two weeks or considerably less if exposed to weather. They can be used in and around the nest and foraging area. The spray lays down a fine film of insecticide and when the ant contacts the insecticide and subsequently cleans itself, it ingests the product and dies. A potential weakness of some of these sprays is that they contain and ingredient (Pyrethrins) that may repel ants before the whole colony as become contaminated.

Residual Insecticide Dust: is perfect for dusting into dry but hard to access areas such as under floor boards, behind skirtings, into cracks and crevices and under cupboards. So long as it is kept dry it can remain active for many months.

Poison Bait Stations: are the best way to eliminate a whole colony but a little patience is required. Bait stations rely on the previously mentioned habit of ants to inform the colony of potential food sources.

Two or more bait stations should be placed in the area ants are seen foraging for food. An ant will find the bait station and take some bait back to the colony. Because the bait has been carefully formulated to be attractive to black ants, the whole colony will soon start to feed (or be fed) on the bait.

The active ingedient within the bait is slow acting so by the time the whole colony have sampled the bait it is too late and they will all have consumed a lethal dose. The whole colony should be eliminated with a couple of weeks. Make sure that you have enough bait stations to feed the whole colony.

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