The DIYer's Blog

These days, the economy gives you more than enough to worry about, especially as a homeowner. The last thing you want to have on your mind is pesky ants wandering through your kitchen, invading your home and your life. Unfortunately, as one of the most difficult household pests to control in groups, you sometimes don’t have a choice but to worry.

Ants are the most successful species on our planet, surviving millions of years and watching other insects come and go. The four most common ant species in the U.S. are carpenter ants, pavement ants, Argentine ants and odorous ants. In fact, the black carpenter ant is the most common ant with more than 1,000 different subspecies throughout the world.

Ants prefer their natural habitat, but when they’re hungry, no home is off limits. Often, ants send a scout in to find food. Once food is located, they leave an odor trail on the way back to their mound leading their fellow ants on an easy hunt. “Ants usually enter homes in search of food, water, warmth or shelter,” says Dr. Charles Barr, horticulture expert. “But often they’re responding to weather, which means heavy rain, cold or drought can push them inside.”

Have no fear; there are ways to prevent home-invading ants from setting up camp in your house.

Treat outdoors

Ants invade homes because they are looking for food and water. The best way to control ants in your home is to keep them from entering in the first place. Using AMDRO AntBlock around your patios, sidewalks, in cracks, and surrounding the entire foundation of your home, is an effective way to inhibit the most common U.S. ant species, including carpenter ants, pavement ants, Argentine ants and odorous ants from ever getting into your house.

Secure cracks

Calking cracks in walls and securing holes in doorways are great ways to start protecting your home from ant invasions. But if they sneak by, you need another solution. Grant’s Kills Ants targets your hard-to-reach crevasses with two easy-to-use baits. One is an ant stake that can be inserted into the ground around the outside walls of your home, and the other is a bait syringe that can be used in the hard-to-reach cracks.

Hide food

There is a chance that these determined invaders will find a way into the house. Plastic containers and freezer bags are not only good for the freshness of your food; they also keep bugs out of your cabinets. Bait stations target ants inside the home, as ants are attracted to the scent and taste of the bait. So when they take it back to the colony to feed other ants, including the queen, they destroy their friends within days, instead of invading your home.

Don’t let home-invading ants take over your life, use the right products to control ants and protect your house before it’s too late. For more information on AMDRO AntBlock visit www.Amdro.com/antblock. For more information on Grant’s Kills Ants visit www.GrantsProducts.com/ant_control.html.

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