How do you get rid of flying ants in your home?
Question:Me and my family have been having problems with flying ants, what we thought were termites at one time. We've come to find that these are flying ants and they only bother us during the evenings when light is activated in our rooms. They like to fly all over my laptop screen and I get so tired of trying to smack them all the time. I would like to know if there's any sort of spray we could get to keep them from bothering us. We do not have any plants in our home, nor no windows opened to make them die with detergent.
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If you have PETS OR CHILDREN. DO NOT USE THIS. You have to be VERY VERY CAREFUL with this stuff!! What I use is Boric Acid Powder. I buy it from my pharmacy.
I had the flying ants, (still don't know what they were actually, but they looked like large ants with wings tho)
I found where the bugs were coming in around the window, dumped a small pile of the Powder in the corners inside the window and kept the window closed. In under a week I noticed the bugs were dead, and haven't had a problem with them returning since. Before this, I got them every year in the late summer, early fall. Please be careful with the powder as it is POISON!
This worked great for an apartment building I lived in, where Roaches were taking over too! For the roaches though I put the powder in a large envelope, cut off a small piece of a corner and put a small line of it around all the walls baseboards, and in back of my sink, stove, and refrigerator in the kitchen. Please note: I washed every pot, dish, cup, and piece of silver I used after for quite a while with soap and scalding water before using them. After turning my neighbors onto this stuff we actually got rid of the roaches in our building. Good luck, and PLEASE be careful if you do use this stuff.
You need to bug bomb a few times.
They can be flying carpenter ants. Those are almost as destructive as termites. They will be done swarming in a few weeks but the next problem is where they set up their homes after they swarmed.
Carpenters ants are black and large. If they are red or tiny then they are just annoying ones that will be gone soon.
This is going to sound a bit tacky, but, you should get some of those ant traps, and put them on top of your computer, and put up some fly strips near lights and stuff. If that does not help, then I would go ahead and get a bug bomb.
They aren't ants! They are termites! By nightfall they will shed their wings and pile up somewhere in the house where they will die shortly. Sprays will only stink up your house. Wait until they die then vacuum them up. The spray usually has little or no effect on them.
You may have to find where they are coming from. My next door neighbor had these things for about a month off and on. He found a hole about the size of a match head and watched thousands pour through during daylight. By nightfall they had all moved into a corner of a closet. shed their wings and were dying because they couldn't get back into the ground.
I would recommend you contacting an agent with your County Extension Agency, under State or County Government in the phone book and ask him/her about the situation. You may be able to treat the ground or foundation with a pre-emergent spray. This will kill the larvae in the ground.
Good Luck!
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