For several years in a row, many residents of megalopolises are haunted by a new misfortune: once a year an invasion begins in apartments - they are attacked by flying ants.
Citizens usually do not know how to get rid of malicious insects, because before such ants were found exclusively in rural areas. Many of us do not even imagine what it is: a new species? Mutants? Insects flown from other countries? Neither one nor the other, nor the third. Scientists in the world have 13 thousand species of these working insects, but flying ants do not belong to any of them. These are the most common ants in which the mating season has begun. In search of a partner, usually wingless insects grow wings, rise on high ground and from there rush into mating flight. Mating can occur in the air, and on the ground, and on tree branches: where they managed to find a partner. Immediately after mating, the flying ants break up: the males die, and the females begin to look for a place for the future anthill. Having found a nook (it can even be a city apartment, and not just a rural plot), the female hides the eggs glued in one lump and waits a week: after this time the first - workers - ants appear, who begin to feed the starving female and build a new anthill. During this time, flying ants, or rather flying females, completely consume the fat accumulated before the mating flight, their muscles atrophy, and their wings disappear forever.
Flying ants (ants) become "machines" for the production of larvae. This is repeated every year. Scientists are curiously observing the behavior of these workaholics, but residents whose houses were attacked by flying ants tend to get rid of them as quickly as possible. What methods are recognized as the most effective?
Method One: Spying and Assault
If flying ants appeared in the house, then you have a job to do. We'll have to remove all the food (even crumbs) from the kitchen, pull up the taps so that they do not drip, get rid of garbage and "stale" things. A completely clean house for fertilized females is not interesting: they need a warm place near the source of drinking and food. But before doing the general cleaning, you should find the nests where flying ants could already settle, and destroy them. Coat all cracks, cracks, drain moist places. In this case, you can simply collect insects: either with your hands or with a vacuum cleaner.
The fight with the help of improvised means
All dangerous places in the house can be treated with a special chalk, masking tape, gel or aerosol. The same drugs that are used to combat ordinary insects help: "Mashenka", "Dichlorvos," Raptor "," Regent ", etc. It is possible to treat the places chosen by ants with substances with a pungent (from their point of view) smell: garlic, sulfur, clove or eucalyptus oil. Only they must be mixed with borax: it will destroy the chitinous shell and those insects that "personally" will try the poison, and those that will be in contact with them. This treatment is best done many times: surviving ants can roam the apartment from one place to another.
Calling professionals
The best way to deal with any unexpected domestic insects is proud station. Invited specialists for a very reasonable fee will process the dwelling in such a way that not only flying ants, but other insects will disappear from it for many, many years. But that was our original goal, wasn't it?