Fighting ants is often no less exhausting than fighting the Colorado potato beetle. And all because they adapt perfectly to any conditions. It seems that these insects are immortal and are not afraid of anything!
Ants breed aphids, which destroy plants, spoil the appearance of flower beds and lawns with anthills, and carry bacteria of such dangerous diseases as salmonellosis and diphtheria. And from time to time I don’t mind snacking on juicy fruits, tree sap and seeds. Considering that one ant colony contains thousands of individuals, the threat becomes obvious. Therefore, everyone who has ants is thinking about how to get rid of the harmful tenants.
Folk remedies are often used to repel and destroy ants, for example:
- corn flour;
- boric acid;
- citrus;
- cloves and lavender;
- garlic and onion;
- bay leaf, anise and peppermint;
- soap with the addition of carboxylic acid and kerosene;
- vinegar, etc.
But the problem is that one part of these remedies does not give a long-term effect, while the other is too unpleasant for the person himself or harms animals. In addition, you need to spend a lot of time preparing, for example, bait with boric acid and placing it in the right places. Isn't there an easier way to deal with ants? There is a proven method, and we will share it with you!
Ants in the house - how to get rid of insects
If you want to quickly and permanently get rid of ants, try the Great Warrior series of products from. The products have a double effect: they lure insects and kill their entire colony with poison. As a result, your home, garden and vegetable garden will be completely free of pests.
The series includes drugs of different types so that you can choose the most suitable option. Their main advantages:
- high efficiency;
- duration of action;
- safety for pets;
- ease of use;
- economical consumption;
- no pungent odor.
Thanks to the products from the Great Warrior series, you can quickly get rid of ants in your apartment and on your property. All you need to do is “treat” the pests with gel, granules, varnish or syrup and celebrate victory! Now let’s take a closer look at each drug and how to use it.
Description
The ant repellent gel contains two active ingredients – chlorpyrifos and diazinon. The components enhance each other’s action and allow you to quickly get rid of the entire ant colony.
The great warrior does not only affect ants. It also kills cockroaches.
The drug is available in a 30 ml syringe. This is enough to treat a room of 50 square meters. If the house is large, then it is worth buying several tubes. After all, insects can move from one room to another.
Gel Great Warrior will destroy the entire ant colony
Available in tubes of 30 and 80 g, in dispensing syringes of 30 and 45 g.
Composition: diazinon – 0.2%, chlorpyrifos – 0.3%, stabilizer, preservative, gelling agent, bitrex and food fillers – up to 100%.
Also designed to combat cockroaches. Shelf life: 2 years.
To get rid of ants, you must first destroy the “queen,” who lives 12-20 years and actively bears offspring all this time. The Great Warrior gel, which has a composition that is harmful to insects, will do the job perfectly. The workers eat it themselves and bring it to the anthill. As a result, in a short time the entire ant colony, led by the queen, will be destroyed, and the insects will disappear from the area for a long time.
To combat garden ants, apply the gel dotted or in strips to tree trunks. Place some of the product on sheets of cardboard and place them on the ant paths and around the anthill.
To kill house ants, apply gel around the perimeter of the room in the following way: 2 cm of gel every 6 cm of clean surface. It is also recommended to treat the outside of the room. The effectiveness of the drug will be higher if you protect it from dust and moisture.
If the gel is washed off, then carry out a new treatment no earlier than after 3 weeks, because the composition remains effective for a month indoors and up to 2 months outdoors.
The main advantages of the drug: long-lasting intestinal action and the ability to apply the product even in hard-to-reach places
In tireless worries
Representatives of many species of these small insects not only crawl quickly, but also periodically fly. If you have ever seen a swarm of flying ants, you will agree that this picture is not for the faint of heart. In flight, one can observe queen ants leaving the parent colony before mating, and their potential “suitors”—participants in the mating process. Worker ants do not fly.
It’s good that on Russian territory there are no species that are deadly dangerous to human health. Although there are already enough troubles from these insects.
An unobvious sabotage, which can be called a “symbiosis of pests,” is the active care of the “milch herd” of aphids, which supplies the numerous voracious colony with its favorite food—the generously secreted sugary juice. Ants spread aphids wherever possible - to fruit trees and shrubs, garden strawberries, and flowers. Gray (ground) aphids, protected by ants, can even be found on the roots of violets, phlox, and root vegetables.
Ants and aphids work together to deprive plants of vitality
The Great Warrior garden disc trap will destroy ants in 2-3 days!
One package contains 5 trap discs and a tube.
Ingredients: diazinon – 0.2%, chlorpyrifos – 0.3%, stabilizer, preservative, gelling agent, bitrex and food fillers.
Shelf life: 2 years.
It is not so easy to place a regular trap outdoors, because the gel can dry out in the sun and be washed away by rain. In this case, your choice is the Great Warrior garden disk trap, which protects the product from sunlight and moisture. The bait is very simple to attach and contains enough substance to destroy even the largest ant colony. Just 2-3 days – and there will be no trace of insects left! In addition, the trap is reusable and will last for months, you just need to add fresh gel bait to it. This way you will be protected from the encroachments of new colonies.
The trap should be placed on level ground, with the grass removed first to make it easier for the ants to get to the bait.
To install a trap, follow these simple instructions:
- remove the trap disc, then squeeze a little gel out of the tube into a special recess (see Fig. 1);
- Close the lid tightly on top (Fig. 2);
- place the trap in the selected location (Fig. 3);
- secure with pins or staples (Fig. 4).
Check the trap once every 10-15 days and replenish it with gel. If damaged, replace with a new one.
Varnish Great Warrior with a “knockdown” effect
Available in 100 ml bottles.
Composition: cypermethrin – 1.5%, solvents and auxiliary ingredients.
Also designed to combat cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas, adult flies and mosquitoes.
Shelf life: 5 years.
A new product in the series of products - Great Warrior varnish - destroys garden and house ants with the help of a deadly insecticide. When an insect lands on a strip of varnish, it immediately receives a dose of poison and soon dies.
To kill ants in greenhouses and outbuildings, apply varnish in a continuous strip or in 4-8 cm fragments to frames, frames, thresholds, etc. If garden ants crawl into country houses, treat the buildings in the same way outside and inside. It is convenient to carry out the treatment with a brush or cotton swab.
Do not apply varnish to the bark of living trees, because... this may cause damage. Also avoid handling handles, windows, latches and other elements that you touch with your hands, so as not to get poisoned.
Tired of fighting house ants? Treat places where they accumulate or move indoors with 10 ml of varnish per 1 m2, and outside - 330 ml per 1 sq.m. And these insects won’t bother you anymore!
The protective effect lasts up to 2 months if the drug has not been exposed to direct sunlight for a long time.
"Apartments" of ants
There are hundreds of species of ants in the world. They all need to live in a colony, where they can safely bring what they need for life and reproduction. Anthills are built in different ways. For example, one of our common species, the red wood ant, makes a nest-like home from twigs and grass.
A colony of red myrmica (this species is often located close to humans) can be found in a ventilation pipe, under the floor of a house, or in some kind of crack.
The black garden ant can also live in the cracks of buildings, but usually these insects still build anthills in the roots of plants and in the soil. It is this species that most often causes damage in dachas, penetrating absolutely everywhere. To feast on sweets, insects find access to sources of carbohydrates - fruits and berries, and damage them. Gardeners can only accept that the harvest is no longer suitable for storage or food. Omnivorous ants include in their diet leaves of seedlings, young greenery of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, gnaw holes in flower petals, and can even eat seeds sown in the ground.
It is believed that insect passages underground make it more breathable and loose. But at the same time, ants damage the roots of plants, causing great damage to young plantings, seedlings, and adults too.
A less common species is carpenter ants, but they cause no less harm than other “tenants.” The peculiarity of these insects is that they make their home in tree bark and adore rotten stumps and old wood from fallen trees. Therefore, it is better not to take risks and not leave such landfills on your summer cottages and garden plots. And be on the lookout: woodworms will not stop even in front of fresh wood, seemingly durable lumber from which houses, bathhouses, and gazebos are built. Therefore, they, as well as wooden fences, decorative design elements, etc., must be treated with special means.
Beekeepers suffer greatly from ants. An insect invasion may result in commercial honey turning into useless supplies that no one can sell or eat. There have been cases when colonies of ants destroyed entire bee families. Moreover, any species of these insects pose a threat to apiaries. Beekeepers can come up with all sorts of things to scare them away: they fill the anthill with soot, use grease, tar and other sticky and odorous substances, and set traps with honey water. But folk remedies help little.
Great Warrior granules for quick results
Available in bags of 50 g and dispenser jars of 150 and 270 g.
Ingredients: fipronil – 0.01%, bitrex, preservatives, dyes, food base.
Shelf life: 3 years.
If you want to get quick results with a minimum of effort, use small crystal granules Great Warrior. They will attract ants with their sweet taste and destroy the entire insect colony. To do this, simply pour the drug onto the anthill and ant “paths”.
To kill ants in your home, pour the granules into a container and moisten with water to form a paste. Then treat all the places where ants walk with it. In houses and cottages, granules can be placed in the cracks between tiles. For greenhouses, verandas and terraces, both dry granules and prepared paste are used, which are applied around the perimeter of buildings.
One treatment is enough for up to 2 months
Do not pour granules on land used for agricultural crops, as well as in playgrounds and bee apiaries.
Advantages of the drug
Warrior-gel against ants is highly effective. It destroys not just individuals, but the entire family. It is easy to spot an anthill in the garden, but in the house it is almost impossible. Ants make deep holes and numerous passages. Place the nest under the floor or in the wall. Gel bait does not require clarification of the situation. The ants themselves will bring the poison home.
High efficiency is ensured by two active toxic substances at once. This eliminates the possibility of adaptation. The gel will always work.
One treatment is enough to destroy the entire family. The effect lasts for 2 months. During this time, a new generation will have time to appear and die. It does not deteriorate over time and does not dry out. When placed on an anthill or nest, the effectiveness increases significantly.
Availability and low cost.
Sold together with a dosing syringe. Convenient to apply and spread over the surface.
Insecticidal syrup Great Warrior is the enemy of pharaoh ants!
Available in 100 ml bottles.
Ingredients: borax (sodium tetraborate) – 6%, stabilizer, food attractants, water.
Shelf life: 2 years.
Ants especially love liquid and sweet foods, so they will not refuse the Great Warrior insecticidal syrup. It will cope not only with garden ants, but also with house or pharaoh ants, which are capable of creating huge colonies with several queens.
To kill ants, take several substrates, for example, plastic lids, and pour 10-20 ml of syrup into them. Place them in places where insects most often walk, perhaps on the anthill itself, under trees, in greenhouses and hotbeds. For one room of 20 square meters you will need 2-3 such substrates. The drug is non-toxic, does not accumulate in the soil, therefore it is safe to use in the garden.
Protect the bait from the sun and rain, and then it will serve you for at least 1.5 months.
Operating principle
The anti-ant gel has an intestinal-contact effect and retains its properties for one month. But the drug is not recommended for use in open areas, because there it can be washed away by precipitation.
The product attracts insects with a sweet aroma that is inaudible to humans. The ants eat some of the poison, and carry some of it to the nest on their body. There, the gel is eaten by those individuals who do not leave the anthill. Using the Great Warrior gel allows you to destroy foragers and the female queen. The insect colony dies within two to three days.
Safety precautions when working with drugs
Preparations from the Great Warrior series require compliance with the following safety rules:
- work should only be carried out with gloves; if it gets on your skin, wash off the product with plenty of water;
- carry out varnish treatment in a well-ventilated area, where there are no people or animals;
- It is forbidden to smoke, drink, or eat during treatment with drugs;
- after work you need to wash your hands with soap;
- Dispose of product containers immediately after use;
- store in a dry, cool, dark place away from food, medicines, feed, keep away from children and pets.
If you are tormented by the question of how to get rid of ants in the house and country house, arm yourself with the Great Warrior series of drugs. These products are easy to use, and the effect will be noticeable within a few days!
