The ants inside or, to be more precise, those that enter our homes, businesses and other buildings, are a group composed of different types of ants that have specialized to live with human beings in their constructions and feed on their Same food and waste.
These tiny ants in bathroom and anywhere else where the food they are looking for is: crumbs, sugars, other small organic remains and cream, and soap residues.
They are usually of small size (we will talk about winged ants in another post), which facilitates their access and wandering throughout the structure through any small space in baseboards, baseboards, door jambs or even between tiles. They appear and disappear in several distant places, which entails a particular problem: locate the anthill. It can be found on the floor, between walls at medium height or even on the ceiling and, sometimes, in the adjoining exterior or in the neighbor's house.
The ants inside not usually hibernate if environmental conditions (temperature and humidity) remain constant throughout the year: in practice, living in artificial conditions, because it does not depend on the seasons for food or shelter, and have no predators natural that control its population.
Eliminating the ants that we see in the outer rows either by stomping, sweeping them or "scrubbing" them with bleach, does not have a great effect on the colony, since they usually represent only 15% of it; yes, they will be altered and run in every way for a few minutes but, within hours, they will form the row again. End an ant colony using only domestic insecticides is complicated and you have to be lucky if you don't have the right knowledge. We can see quick effects, which will give us hope and make us believe in the advertising of the product but, after a few days, it is more than likely to reappear. The current formulations authorized for domestic use do not have the duration of yesteryear, due to personal and environmental safety issues.
The most efficient solution to eliminate these annoying ants that, in addition, transmit diseases by contaminating the food they pass on, is the one that encompasses and combines measures of diverse nature (or Integrated Pest Control ): making it impossible to reach the food through an exhaustive cleaning and vacuuming of surfaces (especially entertains, carpets and under furniture), cover or hermetically seal food scraps, finish off and seal the access roads of ants (cracks, fissures, joints, etc.) and, Finally, use the most suitable household insecticides following their instructions for use.
Do not worry if the above fails and the ants continue to appear; You have not made any mistake and do not insist again because it can be worse (some indoor ants - such as H. Pharaoh - detect certain insecticides and those that survive to fall back for a few days and divide the anthill into two new ones!).
It is at this time, if you have not done so before complicating your life, when you have to go to a specialist, who will identify the type of ant to professionally adjust the measures to be taken, select the insecticide in effect bait delayed more appropriate according to the species and safer for you and yours, and will monitor the process to ensure efficient and professional results by removing the ants inside .
