coffee grounds are for coffee, not for ants!

You may call them “sugar ants” or “stink ants” but the battle against the odorous house ant on the eastern shore of Maryland has been raging on for years. This leads many people to seek out remedies for these pesky ants. Some common remedies that get spread around are things like making a barrier around your home with coffee grounds, using homemade baits with borax or baking soda, and the use of store bought products. Often much time, money and energy is spent on trying to rid the home of these ants with little to no relief. Why is it so hard to get rid of these ants? How can someone get rid of odorous house ants?

The answer is not so simple but if you look to certain aspects of the odorous house ants biology you can start to see why. First off, Odorous House Ants can have many Queens who stay back at the nest and reproduce. The ants you see in your home or trailing along the foundation on the outside of the home are worker ants. Their job is to provide food for the nest. Most people use quick kill products that only kill the small amount of workers that they see, leaving the majority of the nest still in tact, and the queens still reproducing.

The way these ants nest also make it difficult to treat. They find opportunistic locations which often are hidden from sight. These ants also have the ability to have queens break off from the main nest with some workers and start a new one as well.

You can now see why it is so difficult to control the odorous house ant. Do-it-yourself remedies often only provide a small amount of relief. Using household remedies like coffee grounds, corn starch, or big globs of sugar and borax, tend to only provide temporary relief most of the time and can be quite messy.

Calling on a professional from Virtues Professional Pest Control LLC, is your silver bullet in the war against odorous house ants! Controlling this ant involves using the right products in the right places that years of experience helps with. Lets look into some of the things you can do to your home to help!

Lets start with pest proofing the home. When it comes to the odorous house ant, they are not the ant that nests in ant hills, in fact they will nest just about anywhere! Often they will nest in leaf piles, as well as under statues and objects. One way of keeping these pests away from your home would be to do some old fashioned spring cleaning. Blowing the leaves away from the house and picking them up so that these ants do not have an easy place to live right next to the house.

Sealing up gaps where ants could easily make it in the home is also a way of pest proofing the home. Another way is to limit food sources in the home. Making sure there are no crumbs or other foods that make it easy for these ants to feed inside the home. Cleaning out gutters is another way to prevent odorous house ant nests from forming as well. You should also look around your home and trim away any plants touching the home, as it provides an avenue for ants to get on the home, often bypassing any remedy you put out around the home.

Why waste good coffee grounds when you can call on the experts at Virtues Professional Pest Control LLC. Using superior products and a targeted approach will get the product where it needs to be to solve the problem. Odorous House Ant colonies are notorious for plaguing the Denton, Ridgely, Easton, Centreville, Stevensville and surrounding areas! Their colonies are resilient and persistent. Sit back and drink your coffee while having a professional solve your ant issues! Call, Text or Email us today

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