Having ants in your yard and mostly your garden can be beneficial in pest control and also dangerous to the entire household as well as your garden in some other ways. They are sweet and sour service providers or providers of the bitter-sweet experience.
Ants come into your yard for a couple of reasons, some could just be visiting, roaming about or are being invited by other ants so they can form their colony. Food crumbs and wet places are also some chief reasons why ants would want to cohabit with you.
Well, you might be thinking the ants are just newcomers while they’ve actually been there before you came in and you are the one who’s even intruding according to the law of who inhabits a place first. So for one thing, there could be ants already and you came and met them, why they are there is none of your makings but they are there anyway and that’s bad already.
Ants are attracted by food crumbs. Factually, this is one of the prime reasons why ants would invade your home. They need food to survive and since you store food in the house or perhaps you eat around the yard and the food crumbs linger a while before you get rid of them, the ants have already leveraged on your delay to make a living for themselves.
Beyond food which is the chief reason for ants showing up in your residence, wet areas or damp areas can also get the attention of ants. They need water in as much as they need food. Almost every creature under the sun needs water to live, ants aren’t an exception to this.
You create portals or entry points for ants to march in like an infantry when you allow cracks and holes in the walls of your house or fence endure for a long time. Ants love to utilize opportunities when they see any. When you leave broken fences unattended to, you virtually send out a note to them conveying your intentions of having them around for an evening hangout or for a sweet cohabitation.
Ants can glide past even holes small as pores. Leaving your window open is more than enough welcome already. If you are using a wooden window or it was used as a frame for your wood, change the wooden frame when it begins to rot because that could also attract ants to the window which subsequently leads to their presence indoors.
Ants are not some friendly creatures especially the soldier ones. In the stead of terminating them when they’ve already begun working in your home in terms of carrying diseases and damaging lawns and gardens, you can opt for the preventive methods by eliminating everything that’s capable of attracting them into your home.