Ants are known to be the most familiar pest in houses after cockroaches although they don’t harm you much, but are able to give you inconvenience or a nuisance if you enter your house as they are known to nest inside the home. Do you know they can carry 50 times more weight than themselves and are able to live for 24 hours underwater? An infestation of ants is not always a pointer to a dirty home but they make the entrance to your home in search of food when they didn’t get enough from outside.
Harm to Health
1) Although ants are not much harmful, their bits may give itchiness and a red bump which may bother you. And sometimes it may be harmful to you if a bunch of ants bites you at a time.
2) If you have the food on which ants were present that may result in nausea due to the thought in your mind that ants were crawling on your food.
3) Ants have many species and some of them can spread bacteria.
Ants may not be harmful but it is very nuisance if they nest at your home or business premises.
Ants Control
Erase Ants Trails: Ant leaves a scent to other ants to follow it so destroying this path by clearing the scent can lead you to get rid of ants infestation. This scent left by ants is not easily gone so clean it with a solution of white vinegar and water.
Destroy Nest: One of the best solutions to get rid of ants is destroying their nest.
Chemical Use: There are so many pesticides available which can give you rid of ants easily; these mainly come in the form of a spray.
Some organic products contain neem, clove, and peppermint extract.
Homemade Solution: Using lemon, pepper, salt, cinnamon, peppermint, and clove around or outside the ants next can stop an ant infestation.
Prevention: once you kill all the ants from your house also make sure to close all the paths through which ants can come back again.
Spray the entry points of ants for some days even after the removal of ants.
Eliminate all the safe points for ants.
Ants are not much destructive and harmful to a person but they still give nuisance if get an entrance to your home and make their nest. To get rid of ants is nothing better than using the homemade solution but if not using the organic solution can give you a solution to the problem as well as free from chemicals that will not be harmful to your health too.