How to get rid of ants crawling into my plant?

I have palm majesty plant inside my apartment and it’s been quite healthy. Recently ants has been getting in from the window and going to the soil of the plant and to other places in the house. How can I get rid of them? I heard just spraying them won’t work so I don’t want to mess it up and make the problem work. Help!

Ant problems usually start from outside the structure. Failure to do preventive pest control around a structure will allow ants (and other insects) to live close by and once they’re nesting alongside any buidling, it’s just a matter of time till they get inside. It sounds like this has happened in your situation.

Since you live in an apartment, it might be hard to use the more traditional approach of spraying the outside and baiting the inside. Traditional sprays will alert the foraging ants of something “bad” in the area and they’ll stay away from where you spray. This is why spraying inside is generally not suggested.

However, this case is different. I suspect you might not have a good chance of gaining access to all areas where you’d need to treat so I’m afraid it might be tough to control this problem unless you employ one of the new actives we have in the pest control industry. These new products work slowly and don’t alarm or spook the target pest so they’re unaware anything is even around. By the time they figure out they’ve been walking over a treatment it’s too late and the nest will be affected. This product I’m talking about is called PHANTOM. Odorless and easy to mix, it would be ideal if you applied this outside where they’re coming in as well as to the baseboards and plant soil where they’re no doubt nesting. Remember this is not a fast acting product and you won’t kill anything when it’s first applied. This is by design. But in the days following the treatment it will “kick in” and when it does, the whole nest will be shut down.

You might also want to get some PHANTOM AEROSOL since it comes with a nice crack and crevice applicator making it easy to apply in the structure and for small jobs since you won’t need a sprayer. Remember to let the ants you see walking over the treated areas to live as they are important if you want to get control of the problem. By walking over the treatment, they’ll pick up the active Phantom and “share” it with the other members of the colony eventually shutting it down.

Here are direct links to the products mentioned above:

Phantom: http://www.bugspraycart.com/insecticide/aerosol/pt-phantom-17-5oz

Phantom EC:  http://www.bugspraycart.com/insecticide/liquid/phantom-21-oz

jonathan

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