How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants
The first thing you need to do is seal up your house. Use caulking on
cracks and crevices and weather stripping for under doors. If your
house is sealed like a fortress, the ants cannot get in.
The next step is also a preventative and that is to get rid of the
food sources. Clean up your kitchen and make sure there are no sweets
such as sugar and the like for the ants to feed on.
Now you need to make sure your ants are actually sugar ants and are
attracted to sweets. Put out a sweet food source and watch for the ants
to go for it. When you find the trail, dust it with a safe, botanical
pesticide such as something from EcoSmart. EcoSmart sells pesticides
that are so safe, they are actually exempt from EPA regulation.
The ants will walk through the trail of pesticide and when they clean themselves, they will ingest it.
Now that you now the ants are going for sweets you can put out sugar
based bait. The worker ants will take the bait back to the colony and
feed the larvae. The larvae produce a by-product that both the workers
and queen will feed on. In this way you are killing the entire colony.
To keep the ants from entering in the first place, you can kill them
in the yard before they come in. Be proactive by using a time release
granule around the outer perimeter of your home.
Ants can be a nuisance but if you follow these tips they are generally pretty easy to get rid of.
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