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
Liquid concentrate
Liquid concentrate, or emulsion concentrate (e.e.), is a convenient form for preparing liquid working solutions (r.r.). The functioning of the drugs is also based on the contact-intestinal principle of action.
The drug is diluted with water in the required concentration and applied to places where insects accumulate during the growing season. The prepared working solution should not be stored and should be used completely on the day of its preparation. Treatments are carried out in dry and windless weather by spraying with a working solution the places where ants accumulate and move. Or anthills, stumps, or other places where ants have established a colony are completely flooded.
To prepare r.r. the dosage is 1-5ml. for 10l. water according to instructions. Consumption rate 10 l/5 m2. for spraying, or 10-20 l. to flood an anthill or other habitat.
Ants die within 2-4 days after treatment. The protective effect of liquid preparations is up to 3 weeks; a single treatment is sufficient.
Hazard class for humans is third. Waiting period before harvesting is 30-40 days. Delivery time for manual work is 7 days.
Liquid concentrates for ants - examples of preparations
Advantages of liquid preparations:
- allows you to immediately destroy entire colonies of ants along with their queen;
- lack of addiction to drugs in insects (except for drugs containing malathion, for example “Karbofos” );
- economical consumption and low cost of drugs;
- Due to their selective action, the preparations are safe for beneficial soil bacteria.
| 11. "Aardeater k.e." (1ml ampoule, 10ml, 50ml, 500ml bottles) | diazinon 60% |
| 12. “Muracid” (1ml ampoule, 10ml bottles) | diazinon 60% |
| 13. “Doctor Klaus” (1 liter working solution with ejector or aerosol) | alpha-cypermethrin |
| 14. "Karbofos k.e." (ampoules 5ml, 10ml and bottles 0.25l., 0.5l., 1l.) | malathion 10-50% |
| 15. "Blockbuster XXI, e.g." (bottle 10ml) | malathion 58% |
| 16. "Cypermethrin, e.g." (bottle 50ml, 0.5l., 1l.) | cypermethrin 25% |
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.
Conditions of existence - distribution of roles
Ants adapt very quickly to a new place. If ants have occupied a new territory, then you need to be prepared for the fact that new habitats will gradually appear, and soon, due to full-fledged nesting, a whole city will be formed, where all representatives of the colony will be closely connected with each other.
For your information. This world of pests has its own subgroups, some of which leave their homes every day to find food, while others remain to care for the queen. Due to a clear distribution of roles and assigned tasks, these creatures are able to live for about 15 years and actively reproduce.
The food used is plant and animal remains, crumbs, as well as rotting organic waste and even the corpses of other insects.
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.
The best insecticide gels to get rid of ants
Application practice identifies the most effective compositions, which include:
- "Global";
- "Brownie";
- "Clean house";
- "A great warrior".
Ant repellent gel
Insecticide "Global"
The German-made gel has an attractive chocolate smell. Based on the toxic properties of chlorpyrifos. "Global" remains active for 4 months. Affects the efficiency of transmission of nerve impulses in insects, as a result of which ants lose the ability to orient themselves in space.
Poisoning appears a week after applying the composition. Knead the tube of Global gel with your hands. You can also keep the package in warm water.
Then strips of paper, cardboard, and plastic are cut 1.5-2 cm wide and 10-15 cm long. The composition is applied to the blanks in a thin layer and placed on areas where ants are likely to accumulate, along their migration routes around the apartment.
After two weeks, the treatment with Global is repeated. The packaging of the product is enough to treat 60 square meters of housing.
The ratio of the toxic substance is designed to affect the body of an insect, so there will be no harm from the Global gel to humans or animals if the product is used according to the instructions. The composition is also effective against cockroaches.
Gel "Brownie"
The active substance is the intestinal poison finpronil. The substance has no characteristic odor and has no effect on humans or domestic animals.
The gel is available in 30 ml tubes and allows you to treat an apartment area of up to 50 sq.m.
By eating the bait, the ant accumulates poison in its body and slowly begins to lose vitality. The insect begins to feel severe discomfort after 1-2 days.
This time is enough for complete infection of ant colonies. The effect of fipronil lasts for 3 months, which allows you to completely get rid of parasitic insects.
“Clean House” product
Perfect for treating the most secluded “ant trails”, since, like the “Great Warrior”, the composition of this gel is supplied with a dosing syringe.
Tube capacity – 35 ml. With a small invasion of house ants, the packaging is enough to treat a room of up to 50 sq.m.
24-36 hours after the “gel dinner”, irreversible consequences occur in the ant’s body, and the insect dies. This time is enough to transfer the poison to the nests.
The composition is easily removed from any surface and does not leave stains, so it can be applied in a dotted line directly to the area without a paper base.
Another method of application is to leave the product on the substrate directly in the area where domestic insects are concentrated.
If colonization is severe, the premises will need to be re-treated after 21-30 days.
Modern gel-like formulations completely eliminate uninvited guests. And yet, it’s worth keeping your house perfectly clean, getting rid of food waste on time, not creating a museum of old rags at home, and then you won’t have to turn to the power of modern raptors.
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 and disadvantages of use
Regardless of what container you buy the Great Warrior gel in, according to customer reviews, you can count on the following advantages:
- Availability. Ant repellent is available at any hardware store. It's inexpensive.
- Convenient application: the gel from the tube is easy to squeeze out in the right places, and the poison for ants is also dosed from a syringe.
- No smell.
- It has a prolonged validity period: up to 1 month – outdoors, up to 2 months – indoors.
- Wide spectrum of action. If there are ants in the house, then you will additionally get rid of not only them. The Great Warrior is a poison for all pests, including the ubiquitous cockroaches.
- The drug is stored for a long time. If necessary, the poison can be used after 2 years (from the date of release).
However, there are some drawbacks:
- Great Warrior contains substances toxic to humans and animals. Therefore, when using an ant repellent, you must adhere to all instructions in the instructions for use.
- Wash off with water. This is a big problem when trying to remove insects from an area.
- If the infestation is severe or the ants are able to enter the home, then repeated treatments will be required to reduce insect damage.
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.
Gel and its features
| pros | minuses |
| Action extended over time. After applying to all the places where goosebumps appear, they will not be noticeable in the next few hours. But the complete elimination of the “invaders” occurs within 2 weeks | Validity period is at least 4-5 months. But this is enough to live calmly without problems throughout the dangerous season of insect invasion. |
| Even if the application was far from the location, the bait will work, as it attracts insects with a specific smell | Stains furniture and is difficult to clean after a while |
| In fact, it is food for them. Besides the fact that visiting individuals eat droplets of gel on the spot, they will in any case carry it to the uterus | Visible after application |
| Affects all individuals | The action is not immediate |
| Since it enters the colonies in the form of food, you don’t have to worry about the main queen being destroyed, which will help in removing the anthill |
We suggest you familiarize yourself with ways to combat ants in the house
The action of the gel is very simple. Firstly, it attracts with its smell and taste. Insects simply cannot resist it. Secondly, by penetrating the body with goosebumps, toxic substances affect the nerve endings and paralyze. Thus, without movement, the insect dies. Thirdly, it begins to act actively only after 2-3 hours. During this time, the individual manages to poison another dozen or more of its relatives.
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!
Recommendations for use of the product
The “Great Warrior” gel against ants, reviews of which indicate the high effectiveness and benefits of the composition, is recommended for use after reading the instructions. All points stated in it must be strictly observed.
The instructions state that the gel should be applied around the perimeter of the room, as well as along the expected paths of movement of ants. The gel lines should be intermittent, and if the surface has not been previously treated, then their length should be 5-6 cm. If treatment with the “Great Warrior” product has already been carried out, then the size of the line is reduced to 2 cm.
It is not recommended to wet the gel strips with water or allow dust to settle on them. 24-36 hours after applying the composition, the ants will leave the home. As for repeating the treatment, it should be done in cases where the product was washed off earlier than it should have been or did not have the desired effect and many ants remained alive. In general, repeated treatment with a chemical should be carried out no earlier than 1 month after the first.
Mechanism of operation
How does a cockroach gel or product work against ants and other insects?
Droplets of gel, applied to the surface where pests often appear, emit an alluring aroma. The ants, who arrived in time for lunch, gorge themselves on the unexpectedly appeared tasty treat. Chemical elements begin to act on their gastrointestinal tract, corroding it. The parasites die a few days after the dose is eaten.
Returning to the nest, the insect carries with it particles of poison that have stuck to it, thus spreading the toxic substance throughout the entire colony.
Advantages and disadvantages of the drug
Like all insecticidal preparations, “Great Warrior” has its pros and cons. To provide information in a convenient form, we provide the table below.
Table 1. Advantages and disadvantages of the “Great Warrior” ant repellent gel.
| Advantages | Flaws |
| insects themselves run to the poison, thanks to the well-thought-out composition of the product; | use on open ground requires repeated renewal of the product, since there is a possibility of the gel being washed off under the influence of natural factors; |
| acts not only on individual individuals, but also affects the entire family, including the uterus; | improper use of the gel promises poisoning due to high toxicity; |
| it is impossible to adapt to the components of the drug: one enhances the effect of the other, seizing the initiative to destroy; | Complete extermination of insects is not possible if they can easily enter the house (it is advisable to use with various traps that are placed near entrance doors, window openings and other cracks). |
| after application, the gel does not lose its appearance, does not dry out, the effect lasts 60 days; | |
| reasonable price (up to 60 rubles) and availability in stores; | |
| 2-year shelf life; | |
| there is no unpleasant odor, no dangerous toxins are released into the environment; | |
| shows effectiveness not only against ants, but also cockroaches; | |
| convenient packaging in the form of a syringe allows you to use the gel where there is no access to the human hand; | |
| 14 days are enough to clear your house of insects. |
Disadvantages of the drug
It is quite difficult to find an ideal drug that does not have any disadvantages. The emulsion in a tube has no obvious disadvantages, but there are some negative nuances.
- It will not be possible to treat the entire room completely, but often there is no need to sanitize the entire apartment or house; it is enough to apply the substance to the insect habitats.
- The anti-ant product contains dangerous poisons, so if there are small children at home, you need to make sure that there is no access to the emulsion, they do not come into contact with it, and do not put it into their mouths.
- If insects are provided with constant access to the home, then the treatment will have to be carried out several times.
Apply droplets over the entire surface
If the applied substance does not have the desired effect, then the reason for this may be the expiration date or the purchase of a low-quality, counterfeit gel.
Let's take a closer look at the Raptor
A company like Raptor is well known for its quality products. The company has developed not only baits for creeping and running pests, but also against mosquitoes, flies and other “harmful people”. With the help of the proposed “Raptor” gel against ants, you can be 100% sure of the result. No one can dispute this. Such data is confirmed not only by research and experiments conducted before the start of sales. But also reviews from grateful clients.
If you try all kinds of traditional methods of destruction on your own, then in comparison with the substance they are powerless. You can also use bait of this kind for the purpose of prevention against all creeping parasites. According to all the same reviews, Raptor is a universal substance and will help remove most parasitic creatures (cockroaches, centipedes and even flies) from the house at the same time.
With the help of Raptor gel against ants you can be 100% sure of the results
The gel lasts much longer than most substances. Sold in several forms and each meets the requirements of the most demanding buyer: gel, powder, granules. The powder is diluted in water and used as an aerosol. Such spraying will even help against bedbugs and fleas, mosquitoes and flies. Granules are beneficial in gardens, but the gel is just right for residential premises.
The use is so simple that even a child can do it. Open the cap and apply small drops to the surface of baseboards, furniture and in places where pests most often appear.
Gel “Raptor” is safe to use in homes where there are animals and children
