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6 Crucial Steps For Getting Rid Of Ants

7/26/13

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Ants in the kitchen are annoying. Ants in your sugar bowl are even more annoying. When they start to find their way into your bathroom and into your shower (while you’re in it!) and eventually throughout your home- well then ants have become more than a nuisance; they’re taking over! But before you rush out to the home improvement store to buy the latest DIY ant killer, consider that an ant problem can’t be fully eradicated by just using the over-the-counter ant poisons you can buy at the store. There is a science to it and if not done correctly, you could spend a lot of money with DIY ant control and only end up with an ant problem that is even worse than when you started.  Here are the 6 crucial steps you should follow to get rid of ants inside your home. 

  1. DON’T KILL THEM! It seems crazy, but don’t kill the ants that you see inside your home. You may have a very strong urge to squish the little pests, but resist! Here’s why: when you kill the foraging ants, they don’t return home. The queen ant gets angered and sends out even more ants in their place. Now your problem is even worse. Also, killing the ants that you see will cause other ants to take new paths into your home (thanks to the pheromones that are left behind on the ants you squished).  So now more ants are coming in, all on different paths, which makes it even more challenging to trace back to the source of the ant infestation.

  2. Call in professionals. Professional ant exterminators are trained to find the source of the problem and know how these little pests work; their knowledge and expertise on the problem far surpasses the effectiveness of the DIY ant killer you can buy at the store.

  3. Inspect to find the nest. When you have a pest control professional in your home for your ant problem, they will inspect the property carefully to find the source of the infestation: the colony. These colonies can be very large, housing thousands of ants. If you don’t find the colony and just kill the ants inside the house, the problem can easily return.

  4. Use bait! A pest control professional also knows where to place special ant baits (different baits are used for different species of ants, at different times of the year!) so that ants will happily take the bait back to the colony.

  5. Perimeter applications for prevention. A pest control pro should know enough to use bait that will allow ants to make it back to their colony. Once at the colony, the bait will be shared around and that’s when it will begin to work; not before the ants have made it out of your home!

  6. Follow up. To entirely get rid of ants, pest control professionals know that sometimes it can take a few treatments. A pest management professional should contact you a couple of weeks after treatment to make sure that you are no longer seeing ants; if you are, they should come back and re-treat. If the problem is gone, their job is done! 

This 6 step program is the very best way to get rid of ants inside your home. Don’t let these pests take over and don’t waste your money on DIY ant sprays and baits; get it right the first time and contact a pest control professional in your area to get rid of ants today! 

For more information on Nashville ant and pest control services from the professionals at All-American Pest control, give them a call! They’d be happy to discuss their pest control options with you and are sure to have a program that will fit the needs of your Middle Tennessee home or business.