How to Get Rid of Household Pest

by Hien Quoc
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I've had my share of pests but for now the only pest I have is ants. No matter what ants always come into the house during the summer season not matter how clean your house is. I think its because the ground they're crawling on is super hot from the sun's heat that they have no where else to go but in the house.

What I found that works best so far is Combat Ant Bait Gel. It lets the ant feed on that sweet poison which has a delayed release so that it takes a while for the poison to really hit the ant. Until then the ant has enough time to take the bait back to its home. The great part about that is that queen lives there and is freaking spawning all these little critters that clean up after you. Well basically the queen eats the bait eventually and she dies which kills the entire colony.

Now don't just get any ant bait. The ant bait stations don't work for jack shit. I've bought my share of ant bait stations and placed it directly in their tracks just to see nothing happen. They just walk around it. What you want is the ant bait GEL!!! Yes.. the gel is great for these ants. It looks like a giant syringe packed with the ant bait that you can pump a line onto a card board, then place the card board into the ants path. Within a half an hour a whole swarm of ants starts feeding on it. It's kind of addicting I might say watching with an evil grin as they indulge themselves with the sweet gel. Whats great about the gel is that you can reapply when they do eat it all up and are still back for more. Use sparingly cause I've been guilty of laying long ant gel walls along its tracks and seeing it dry up like 6 hours later. Be creative with how your pump the gel onto the board. You don't want to have a big glob of gel in one area. You want to draw lines to maximize the area the that ant has on feeding it. You want to feed them a long subway sandwich that they can eat from all sides instead of a mound of ice cream that they have to crawl on top of each other in order for everyone to get to it.

The draw back of the gel is that it drys up like glue. I guess thats how they die when their stomachs are all filled with hardened glue. A solution to that is to get an eye dropper and drip some water onto the the dried gel and Presto!! It's good again.. for a little while.

The other problem I've had is Black Widows in my garage. My roommates would store things like metal frames, boxes, tennis rackets, tires, picture frames, car parts, shelves, etc, that makes great nooks and crannies for spiders to build their homes in. It got bad to a point that you couldn't walk through there without brushing by a stiff web from a black widow. There were also a bunch of daddy long legs but that wasn't a problem to me cause I know I won't get bitten by them accidentally.

The best thing to do in this situation is to arm yourself with a sturdy sandal and brave guts. March into your room thats infested with black widows and smash each and everyone of them. Ensure that none of them survive cause they reproduce like mad if one gets loose. You'll need to organize everything in boxes and neatly stack them to the side of the room.

You could of course buy a spray but I don't recommend that cause its death isn't immediate and it has a chance to run away or maybe get revenge.