How To Kill Sugar Ants
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We get a lot of questions on how to kill sugar ants well a lot of people don’t know what type of ant they are so
00:00:08
because they see them around their sweets and things inside the home they refer to them as sugar ants the very
00:00:14
first thing we need to do in controlling any ant species is knowing what type of ant it is but sugar ants a lot of people
00:00:22
may refer to those like I say as a sugar ant but there really could be a ghost ant or a pharaoh aunt or an acrobat in
00:00:28
and all these different types of ants may live inside the home but if you do have these type of ants you have to be
00:00:34
careful because if you feed a sugar ant a bait or a pesticide that is a something that will kill it very quickly
00:00:43
what you’re going to do is you’re going to break up the colony inside the home and that’s something we don’t want to do
00:00:48
we would rather use a what we call a slow-acting bait that will that the colony can eat and distribute amongst
00:00:55
the county and kill the entire county we have a product here called EDM is put out by dupont and it comes in
00:01:01
a little syringe and basically it’s what you do with it is it’s got a little adapter on the end and what you do is
00:01:09
you open up a drawer or a glide inside of the kitchen and you can apply just little dab just a little dot all the way
00:01:17
around the outside of the cabinet and when the ants find this product inside there they will feed on it and then take
00:01:23
that back to the county what’s important about that is when it takes it back to the colony the other ants will actually
00:01:29
come in contact with different ants and they will feed each other this product and then the whole colony will die a lot
00:01:36
of our fast-acting insecticides that people use inside the house kill off certain areas of the colony which enable
00:01:43
the colony to what we call bud or to distribute themselves throughout the home whereas one day you may only have
00:01:49
one little ant colony on one side of the house the next time you’re going to have two or three and colonies throughout the
00:01:54
home so first identify the type of ant that you have and then put the proper type of insecticide down or anta bait
00:02:04
down to kill the entire colony another product that we like to use in conjunction with this adviye
00:02:11
is called Delta dust this is a product here that’s also very very effective when used inside the
00:02:18
walls or voids of the home and this can be applied directly out of the bottle right behind the receptacle outlets what
00:02:25
we do is wherever the switch plates are inside the wall we have like a switch plate here right behind our microscope
00:02:31
we would take the switch plate off the wall we could take this little tip off and this has a nice pointed tip on the
00:02:37
end and you poke a little hole in it and then you just put it right alongside the thing and just squeeze the bottle a
00:02:42
couple of times and that’s all you do you put the receptacle all but right back on and the ants will go away these
00:02:49
are two great products that you should try or if you don’t want to do it yourself call on a professional – number
00:02:55
one identify the type of ant and the to treat it correctly I’m mark Govan with ABC pest control
We get a lot of questions on how to kill sugar ants well a lot of people don’t know what type of ant they are so
00:00:08
because they see them around their sweets and things inside the home they refer to them as sugar ants the very
00:00:14
first thing we need to do in controlling any ant species is knowing what type of ant it is but sugar ants a lot of people
00:00:22
may refer to those like I say as a sugar ant but there really could be a ghost ant or a pharaoh aunt or an acrobat in
00:00:28
and all these different types of ants may live inside the home but if you do have these type of ants you have to be
00:00:34
careful because if you feed a sugar ant a bait or a pesticide that is a something that will kill it very quickly
00:00:43
what you’re going to do is you’re going to break up the colony inside the home and that’s something we don’t want to do
00:00:48
we would rather use a what we call a slow-acting bait that will that the colony can eat and distribute amongst
00:00:55
the county and kill the entire county we have a product here called EDM is put out by dupont and it comes in
00:01:01
a little syringe and basically it’s what you do with it is it’s got a little adapter on the end and what you do is
00:01:09
you open up a drawer or a glide inside of the kitchen and you can apply just little dab just a little dot all the way
00:01:17
around the outside of the cabinet and when the ants find this product inside there they will feed on it and then take
00:01:23
that back to the county what’s important about that is when it takes it back to the colony the other ants will actually
00:01:29
come in contact with different ants and they will feed each other this product and then the whole colony will die a lot
00:01:36
of our fast-acting insecticides that people use inside the house kill off certain areas of the colony which enable
00:01:43
the colony to what we call bud or to distribute themselves throughout the home whereas one day you may only have
00:01:49
one little ant colony on one side of the house the next time you’re going to have two or three and colonies throughout the
00:01:54
home so first identify the type of ant that you have and then put the proper type of insecticide down or anta bait
00:02:04
down to kill the entire colony another product that we like to use in conjunction with this adviye
00:02:11
is called Delta dust this is a product here that’s also very very effective when used inside the
00:02:18
walls or voids of the home and this can be applied directly out of the bottle right behind the receptacle outlets what
00:02:25
we do is wherever the switch plates are inside the wall we have like a switch plate here right behind our microscope
00:02:31
we would take the switch plate off the wall we could take this little tip off and this has a nice pointed tip on the
00:02:37
end and you poke a little hole in it and then you just put it right alongside the thing and just squeeze the bottle a
00:02:42
couple of times and that’s all you do you put the receptacle all but right back on and the ants will go away these
00:02:49
are two great products that you should try or if you don’t want to do it yourself call on a professional – number
00:02:55
one identify the type of ant and the to treat it correctly I’m mark Govan with ABC pest control
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