Ants are sensitive to temperature and are mostly active in hot weather. They like sweet-smelling food, such as cakes, honey, maltose, red ponds, eggs, fruit cores, meat skins and dead insects. They can recognize roads and move in extreme haste. If individual worker ants die, the bodies are carried back to the colony. But they are intolerant of hunger, and half of them will die after four days and nights without food and water.?
Experts suggest that household ants can be prevented and controlled by first drowning in boiling water and then dropping laundry detergent into ditches to block them. Can also be used to kill cockroaches, mosquitoes spray, these drugs are on the small red ants have the efficacy of killing. However, small red ants are a kind of semi-social insects, the general spraying agent can only kill the group of worker ants out of the nest activities, the queen, the king of these breeding machines are still in the nest crazy breeding. A queen ant can give birth to 600 baby ants every second, so it is better to take collective action to exterminate the ants in the whole building. The best way is to choose a kind of palatable, ants do not have to avoid the role of pharmaceutical bait, worker ants will be moved back to the bait, can make the nest king, queen and larvae poisoned to death, to achieve the whole nest destroyed.
Using the characteristics of ants to eliminate them:?
The ants are mostly found in the kitchen where there is oil and food, so you can utilize this characteristic to eliminate them. Before going to bed at night, move all the food to a place where the ants can't get to it, put a piece of fat pork fat on the floor, and prepare a thermos of boiled water. The next morning, when the ants gather on the fat and are eating well, do not scare the ants away, and immediately scald them to death with boiling water. This can be eliminated several times.