How To Keep Ants Away (2022 Edition)

远离蚂蚁的前8种方法

There are many ways to keep ants away from your home, kill ants, and set up ant control to prevent ants in the future. The primary ways to squash your ant problem include:

• 蚂蚁排除（防止蚂蚁物理进入您的房屋并去除吸引人））
• 杀虫剂（消除蚂蚁的农药）
• 蚂蚁诱饵
• Ant repellents

Let’s go over some specific steps that you can use to keep ants out of your house. Often, it will require multiple methods to get rid of and prevent ants, so we recommend working with several of these to start your pest control efforts:

• 摆脱吸引人。蚂蚁主要吸引我们的食物，水和庇护所。首先使用密封的容器来密封您家中的食物来源，以便蚂蚁不能吃食物并污染食物。然后，请检查您的房屋是否有管道和水龙头中的泄漏。修复您立即发现的任何泄漏，以消除害虫的水源，例如蚂蚁，蟑螂和跳蚤。
• Clean up your trash。Regularly take out your trash and make sure that the lids on your trash cans are tight and sealed for both your indoor and outdoor trash cans. Then, hose down the area around the trash cans weekly to wash away the pheromones that ants leave behind. Other ants use these pheromones to guide them to your home, so erase these pheromones regularly to prevent this from happening. Ants will need toforage for foodrepeatedly instead of having a direct route to your home when you wash away their pheromones.
• 密封您家的入口点。Any openings in your home will allow ants and other pests to enter your home easily. Examine the entire outside of your home for possible openings. Silicone caulk is ideal because ants can chew through regular caulk. Look for cracks and crevices around window sills, door frames, dryer vents, and near any water pipes or outdoor faucets. Also, check electrical, telephone, or cable TV wiring for possible entry points. Eaves, lights, chimneys, and vents in your roof are other prudent places to look for entry points. Once you’ve identified any entry points, fill these cracks and crevices with silicone caulk.
• Keep up with your landscaping.Carpenter ants are notorious for building nests in trees and may use trees to access houses and buildings. Regularly trim any tree limbs that touch your home to prevent carpenter ants from entering your home this way.
• Apply granular insecticides to eliminate ants in your yard before they enter your house.一种颗粒状杀虫剂that is widely recommended is the Talstar PL Granule, which is a great way to control ants effectively. These granules typically come in 25-pound bags and will need to be spread around the yard with a hand spreader. To use, fill the hopper on the spreader and set the size of the opening. We recommend starting it at three, which is in the middle of the sizes offered on the sliding switch. These granules are water-activated. Once water touches them, they melt and spread out to create a band of insecticide. It’s recommended that you do this once a month, especially during warm months of the year, to get ongoing protection from ants.
• Use insecticide sprays.杀虫剂喷雾很有帮助使用您家中的近入口点。如果您找出蚂蚁进入房屋的位置，请使用杀虫剂喷雾来防止蚂蚁进入。
• Place ant baits around your home.如果您在家里发现蚂蚁，请在房屋周围放置蚂蚁诱饵。与其他害虫诱饵不同，蚂蚁诱饵不会吸引蚂蚁进入陷阱。但是，诱饵是有毒的，吸引了蚂蚁。当工人蚂蚁吃蚂蚁诱饵时，它们将其带回蚂蚁巢并进行process called trophallaxis。一旦回到蚂蚁巢或殖民地，工人蚂蚁将反省部分消化，有毒的诱饵，并将其喂入其他蚂蚁，幼虫和女王蚂蚁。由于蚂蚁诱饵有毒，这将杀死任何消耗蚂蚁的蚂蚁，从而有效消除蚂蚁菌落。我们建议使用Terro液体蚂蚁诱饵，它闻起来像食物一样，很容易吸引蚂蚁。这种蚂蚁诱饵中的活性成分是sodium tetraborate decahydrate, alsoknown as borax。Borax将迅速杀死法老蚂蚁，有臭的房子蚂蚁，pavement ants, carpenter ants, fire ants, and other types of ants. Place these ant bait traps near ant trails you’ve seen, near entry points, near nests, and ant hills for the best results.
• 深层清洁您的房屋。Ants are attracted toeasy access to food sources and water.如果您将宠物食品遗漏，这将吸引蚂蚁到您的家中。蚂蚁会很高兴地追随柜台上留下的任何碎屑，溢出的物质或剩余的剩菜。确保您将食物安全地储存，并经常扫掠，真空和擦地板，以捡起可能会发生的食物碎屑。