Those ants have been climbing on the walls next to bed. I have no food source there even though I've took a bfew bites into my bedroom but that's pretty much it... I just don't want them to be inside my mattress that's all...
They eat human hair and skin. I've watched them do it. If they're pharoah ants, you'd be better off calling a professional. They are almost impossible to get rid of and will just keep multiplying.
@@desleymendoza7445i’m struggling with Pharaoh ants infestation that just started invading my 1 bedroom apartment via a window seal crack 2 weeks ago. Started using Terro ant bait & it didn’t do the trick since their nest was apparently outside. Called a pest control company, stupidly they decided to spray a chemical treatment. 4 days later, i’m having a big infestation of them in my main bathroom. I’m back to using Terro bait, kills some of them but they seem to come back more the following day. Problem is, despite i silicon sealed, caulked & grouted many of the entry points, it is impossible to seal the sink/toilet/bathtub side drain openings they now come from (apparently they nest in moist areas). My house is constantly cleaned, vacuumed, no exposed foods or sweet foods that should attract them. This’s becoming really time/energy & money consuming. Any helpful advice/product will be much appreciated.
@@desleymendoza7445 not true. they almost always burrow under the carpet. so you have to yank that up and eradicate all the larvae and queens or shampoo it.
I have been using insectdile and the ant split. Now I have eliminate around 10 nests in my kitchen lol. It's my daily activity to be in the kitchen and stalk the ants
Yesterday I noticed them near the toilet in my bathroom. I sprayed outside and put down any gel stuff… by end of day they were gone. Until this afternoon saw them coming in from electrical outlet. I see a lot of comments about ant problems and such… haven’t seen a lot about the success of the products… anyone?
I seem to have a colony under my bathtub. Thankfully they don't seem to have spread anywhere else. I've put out a bait but it says it takes 10-12 weeks for them to die out. :( I'm on week 3-4 but still see them on my bathroom sink every day. I'm so sad, I can't wait for it to end.
I don't know if I had pharaoh ants or thief ants, but I saturated the area I was seeing them at in bug spray and now they are gone! I have no idea how they got in or what they were attracted to but I am so glad they are gone!
Can the Spectre 2 SC insecticide be put in a normal spray bottle. I don't have the spray and nozzle set up shown in the video. My parents house is completely infested, they are in every room in the house. My parents are too cheap to get a pest exterminator. I want to open my own online store and I can't ship products with ants in them. Im desperate at this point.
I hate these ants so much. I live in the Philippines, and Pharaoh ants are very common here. Just a while ago I left my bedroom with only a couple ants wandering around, and came back to a whole horde. I don't even eat in my bedroom often!
They are living under your carpet. you will need to carpet-shampoo to eradicate them. we had a very bad supercolony with buds all over and they never went away til i shampooed the living daylights out of the carpet. they store all their larvae down there. after that place poison barriers around all openings using a q-tip to apply it rather than spray. Deet actually will repel them, too. you can apply deet with a q-tip and make barriers though it might stain things yellowish.
Son in uny digs whole block infested there a package of attractant previouse tenant obv fixed may b running down?suddenly he has ants does he need replace attractant (no idea how long there,)
It's so difficult to find cheap slow-acting baits in Europe. Borax and boric acid are prohibited here. All other cheap powders are sugar-based with cypermethrin and permethrin, and ants in our house are not a fan of sugar (or they have sugar phase not that often), so they pretty much ignore that food. So I dissolved the powder in water with honey, but it seems too strong - ants die too fast and have no time to bring the food to their nest. Only one thing worked, but it was too expensive long-term. Those were S-methoprene bait houses with a brown powder that has a strong bread (yeast) smell. My pharaoh ants liked it so much that 6 bait houses were emptied out in 4 days. It cost me 20 EUR. I don't want to pay so much. It had too much packaging which adds to the costs. I wish there were the same granules packed in a large can so that I could cheaply refill the bait houses as long as ants are not dead.
The ones in my home don't like sugar either. They are a huge fan of peanut butter, however. The borax mixture didn't work for me since it killed them before they reached the nest. I've had an exterminator here twice and they can't seem to get rid of them either. They're better controlled now, but I'm going on 3 months of not being able to use my bathtub since I first called the exterminator. He thought fumigation for pharaoh ants was a good idea but just ended up splitting the colonies and creating another problem somewhere else. Now he has gel baits with diatomaceous earth all around the tub and base boards. Not one ant has been seen in the bait because they don't like sweets. 🤦♀️ I'm beginning to think they'll be occupying my bathroom forever.
@@desleymendoza7445 Actually this s-methoprene bait worked well for me. A month after they so hungrily emptied 6 bait houses, their numbers started to decrease, and now I haven't seen any ants for two months already. I followed one powder trail to one of their nests - it turned out to be in an old laptop docking station. When I opened it up, it was full of the poison powder but no more ants. The instructions on the poison said that it will not be effective immediately but will poison ant queens so that they cannot reproduce anymore. After the last generation died out, there were no more new ants. To be more specific, the bait that worked for me, in Europe is sold as BIOPREN® PHARAOH ANT COLONY ELIMINATOR, manufactured by different companies. The concentration of the main ingredient is described as "s-methoprene, 5g per kg". It looks like brownish bread crushed to small crumbs. The one I got was made by Babolna Bio, Hungary. When you open a package and sniff it, It has a pleasant yeast bread smell. My ants seemed to be crazy for it.
@@camelCased I'll have to ask the exterminator what he used. From how you're describing it, it's not the same. This one is a clear gel. I'll pass this info on to him. I don't think they know how to deal with pharoah ants.
@@desleymendoza7445No, don't use sugar as bait. I have try with high protein flour, room butter, and boric acid. Then mixed it with hot water. They like it. Pharaoh ant like high protein/fatty food like peanut butter, cookies, meat so used it for bait
oh i hate these ants, but my little one loves catching them one by one and putting them in his Animal Jam toy house and watching them crawl around, even will pet them, how he can catch and pick one up without killing it, i have no idea! XD But also, most think these ants won't bite, they actually do. Sometimes if they get on the inner part of your arm where it bends, or even other places, they will bite. Also when bitten by one, they do kinda hurt, maybe less then a fire ant bite, but close.
They are filthy and spread bacteria due to their feeding on human waste, human biological fluids and other high bacterial sources which they carry into any bits of foods etc. Disgusting and a scourge in hospitals where they infiltrate I v’s and baby bottles etc, institutions spend big money controlling & eradication of pharaohs.
Omg yes they’ve bitten me before and it hurts it feels like a little needle prick. Im having a problem with them in my kitchen I don’t know what to do! I’ve tried max force which is similar to what this vid advertises and it didnt get rid of them
This ant can get inside a towel. I have bite on my eyelid. WTF I feel pain for 4 hour after get bite. So now I'm always see before used my towel. Damn pharaoh and their ant
I hate them. I never saw this in my whole life until recently. Nothing seems to deter them. Bleach, vinegar, peppermint, they come back. I kill them as I see them but you have to look a 2nd time on the wall above my sink or floor or kitchen tablee because they are fast and they zig zag. Stupid scientists say they are blind. Yeah, right. They always know when I am around and start running away. We can send man to mars and back yet we can't find a solution for this pest?
They won't. Terro is the best consumer product for sweet ants. Pharoah ants will mostly ignore Terro. I'm fighting a pharoah ant invasion right now. I've tried mixing bacon grease with borax - minimal interest. I tried mixing some bacon grease with terro (as some suggest) and not only was there no interest, it seemed to repel the ants. Now I'm trying melting a slice of american cheese with around 1 - 2 tbsp of milk in a small sauce pan, and around 1/4 - 3/4 tsp of borax. Mixed it on the stove, let cool and then spread to small pieces of cut up paper plate. Lots more interest but now to see if there's enough borax to do the job. These ants seem much more picky than sweet ants both with the type of bait and how much borax you can sneak in.
@@emmarose4234 I saw the same thing, the packaging I saw at Home Depot recently said will not work on pharaoh ants. Maybe they changed their product because years ago Terro was the product specifically for pharoah's .
@@frostflower5555 nah they will attack you in your sleep lol. they are technically actually a kind of fire ant. they're known to attack elderly people that cant escape them. they also attack people recovering from surgery by getting into tubing.
Pharaoh ants destroyed my laptop wires. I mixed borax powder to sugar syrup, soaked in cotton, first they drink like mad and die by hundreds around cotton but soon stop drinking. Maybe order from high command not to drink. Ant colony still surviving in prosperity.
I tried that, and it doesn't work!! I think they are walking past it or over it and it does nothing to them. Vinegar, bleach, peppermint does not work. Bait did not help. These are not your ordinary ants. They should call it something else. I never knew about this pest in my life till a recent infestation in my building. How can no one know how to deter them?
This video has some weird products and weird brands I've never heard of. You Americans used too much chemicals at home. Pharaoh ants came to my town in 2019 with international packages. I had a simple solution: instead of kill the ants, 'tame' the ants. Ants touched ant bait once but never touch it again. It's poison, the ants remember. Those ants always went for my mango juice, it's sweet and delicious. So I mix up acid pest poison with mango juice, pour it down on the floor, let the ants drink to death. The ants hate mango juice now. As for other food, um, I don't like them anyway, ants can have them.
Those ants have been climbing on the walls next to bed. I have no food source there even though I've took a bfew bites into my bedroom but that's pretty much it... I just don't want them to be inside my mattress that's all...
@Kevin Ahmir Yup, have been using InstaFlixxer for years myself :D
They eat human hair and skin. I've watched them do it. If they're pharoah ants, you'd be better off calling a professional. They are almost impossible to get rid of and will just keep multiplying.
@@desleymendoza7445i’m struggling with Pharaoh ants infestation that just started invading my 1 bedroom apartment via a window seal crack 2 weeks ago.
Started using Terro ant bait & it didn’t do the trick since their nest was apparently outside.
Called a pest control company, stupidly they decided to spray a chemical treatment.
4 days later, i’m having a big infestation of them in my main bathroom.
I’m back to using Terro bait, kills some of them but they seem to come back more the following day.
Problem is, despite i silicon sealed, caulked & grouted many of the entry points, it is impossible to seal the sink/toilet/bathtub side drain openings they now come from (apparently they nest in moist areas).
My house is constantly cleaned, vacuumed, no exposed foods or sweet foods that should attract them.
This’s becoming really time/energy & money consuming.
Any helpful advice/product will be much appreciated.
@@desleymendoza7445 not true. they almost always burrow under the carpet. so you have to yank that up and eradicate all the larvae and queens or shampoo it.
I have been using insectdile and the ant split. Now I have eliminate around 10 nests in my kitchen lol.
It's my daily activity to be in the kitchen and stalk the ants
nice!
pesticides are known to significantly worsen pharaoh ant infestations by triggering budding. the actual colony will have thousands of backup queens.
i've had these ants for YEAAAAAAAAAARSSSSSSSSSSSS
Yesterday I noticed them near the toilet in my bathroom. I sprayed outside and put down any gel stuff… by end of day they were gone. Until this afternoon saw them coming in from electrical outlet. I see a lot of comments about ant problems and such… haven’t seen a lot about the success of the products… anyone?
I seem to have a colony under my bathtub. Thankfully they don't seem to have spread anywhere else. I've put out a bait but it says it takes 10-12 weeks for them to die out. :( I'm on week 3-4 but still see them on my bathroom sink every day. I'm so sad, I can't wait for it to end.
I actually later on got some ant bait gel, the ants died out in 2 days. I haven't seen any since then, thank god!
@@JcGross93 which brand did u get?
@@legendsandheroesfamily7591 It's a brand called imidasect, some Indian company makes it I think, Sharda Cropchem.
@@JcGross93 thanks! i'll check it out.. are all ur ants gone now? hate ants 😭
@@legendsandheroesfamily7591 well, I haven't seen one since. I wish you luck. I hate insects too.
I think they started occupying my home around 4 or 5 years ago. I have never seen anything more annoying than them in my life.
I don't know if I had pharaoh ants or thief ants, but I saturated the area I was seeing them at in bug spray and now they are gone! I have no idea how they got in or what they were attracted to but I am so glad they are gone!
so did they come back?
@@frostflower5555 Nope! They were gone for good! Never saw them again. Forgot I even had them.
@@angelictigerette They were probably not pharaoh ants. They are hard to get rid of.
@@frostflower5555 Maybe. I have no idea, but whatever they were, I'm glad they are out of my home! 🥰🥰😂😂
Can the Spectre 2 SC insecticide be put in a normal spray bottle. I don't have the spray and nozzle set up shown in the video. My parents house is completely infested, they are in every room in the house. My parents are too cheap to get a pest exterminator. I want to open my own online store and I can't ship products with ants in them. Im desperate at this point.
hi i have killed some pharaoh ants with my slipper - does this risk the ants going their own way and creating new colonies
I hate these ants so much. I live in the Philippines, and Pharaoh ants are very common here. Just a while ago I left my bedroom with only a couple ants wandering around, and came back to a whole horde. I don't even eat in my bedroom often!
They are living under your carpet. you will need to carpet-shampoo to eradicate them. we had a very bad supercolony with buds all over and they never went away til i shampooed the living daylights out of the carpet. they store all their larvae down there. after that place poison barriers around all openings using a q-tip to apply it rather than spray.
Deet actually will repel them, too. you can apply deet with a q-tip and make barriers though it might stain things yellowish.
Son in uny digs whole block infested there a package of attractant previouse tenant obv fixed may b running down?suddenly he has ants does he need replace attractant (no idea how long there,)
It's so difficult to find cheap slow-acting baits in Europe. Borax and boric acid are prohibited here. All other cheap powders are sugar-based with cypermethrin and permethrin, and ants in our house are not a fan of sugar (or they have sugar phase not that often), so they pretty much ignore that food. So I dissolved the powder in water with honey, but it seems too strong - ants die too fast and have no time to bring the food to their nest.
Only one thing worked, but it was too expensive long-term. Those were S-methoprene bait houses with a brown powder that has a strong bread (yeast) smell. My pharaoh ants liked it so much that 6 bait houses were emptied out in 4 days. It cost me 20 EUR. I don't want to pay so much. It had too much packaging which adds to the costs. I wish there were the same granules packed in a large can so that I could cheaply refill the bait houses as long as ants are not dead.
The ones in my home don't like sugar either. They are a huge fan of peanut butter, however. The borax mixture didn't work for me since it killed them before they reached the nest. I've had an exterminator here twice and they can't seem to get rid of them either. They're better controlled now, but I'm going on 3 months of not being able to use my bathtub since I first called the exterminator. He thought fumigation for pharaoh ants was a good idea but just ended up splitting the colonies and creating another problem somewhere else. Now he has gel baits with diatomaceous earth all around the tub and base boards. Not one ant has been seen in the bait because they don't like sweets. 🤦♀️
I'm beginning to think they'll be occupying my bathroom forever.
@@desleymendoza7445 Actually this s-methoprene bait worked well for me. A month after they so hungrily emptied 6 bait houses, their numbers started to decrease, and now I haven't seen any ants for two months already.
I followed one powder trail to one of their nests - it turned out to be in an old laptop docking station. When I opened it up, it was full of the poison powder but no more ants. The instructions on the poison said that it will not be effective immediately but will poison ant queens so that they cannot reproduce anymore. After the last generation died out, there were no more new ants.
To be more specific, the bait that worked for me, in Europe is sold as BIOPREN® PHARAOH ANT COLONY ELIMINATOR, manufactured by different companies. The concentration of the main ingredient is described as "s-methoprene, 5g per kg". It looks like brownish bread crushed to small crumbs. The one I got was made by Babolna Bio, Hungary. When you open a package and sniff it, It has a pleasant yeast bread smell. My ants seemed to be crazy for it.
@@camelCased I'll have to ask the exterminator what he used. From how you're describing it, it's not the same. This one is a clear gel. I'll pass this info on to him. I don't think they know how to deal with pharoah ants.
@@desleymendoza7445No, don't use sugar as bait. I have try with high protein flour, room butter, and boric acid. Then mixed it with hot water. They like it. Pharaoh ant like high protein/fatty food like peanut butter, cookies, meat so used it for bait
Use a non repellent product, something they won’t detect when they cross the barrier
Ants infested my switch and I spent an hour killing every ant that came out the cooling
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Why can we send man to the moon yet not find a solution to this disgusting pest?
What is in ant Trax?
I would like to know too.
oh i hate these ants, but my little one loves catching them one by one and putting them in his Animal Jam toy house and watching them crawl around, even will pet them, how he can catch and pick one up without killing it, i have no idea! XD But also, most think these ants won't bite, they actually do. Sometimes if they get on the inner part of your arm where it bends, or even other places, they will bite. Also when bitten by one, they do kinda hurt, maybe less then a fire ant bite, but close.
Thank you for your feedback.
They are filthy and spread bacteria due to their feeding on human waste, human biological fluids and other high bacterial sources which they carry into any bits of foods etc. Disgusting and a scourge in hospitals where they infiltrate I v’s and baby bottles etc, institutions spend big money controlling & eradication of pharaohs.
Omg yes they’ve bitten me before and it hurts it feels like a little needle prick. Im having a problem with them in my kitchen I don’t know what to do! I’ve tried max force which is similar to what this vid advertises and it didnt get rid of them
This ant can get inside a towel. I have bite on my eyelid. WTF I feel pain for 4 hour after get bite. So now I'm always see before used my towel. Damn pharaoh and their ant
Over here in Australia we mostly get small black ants inside
We can recommend our Reclaim IT for that.
Are these the really tiny tiny ants that you can barely see?
yes, ones usually seen on kitchen counters, floors, bathrooms and even in windowsills.
@@THEdeadlyLotu5 what is it called?
Pharoah ants
unicorneyes AJ I have some ants that I can barely see. They are so tiny that if you don’t look carefully you won’t notice them
I hate them. I never saw this in my whole life until recently. Nothing seems to deter them. Bleach, vinegar, peppermint, they come back. I kill them as I see them but you have to look a 2nd time on the wall above my sink or floor or kitchen tablee because they are fast and they zig zag.
Stupid scientists say they are blind. Yeah, right. They always know when I am around and start running away.
We can send man to mars and back yet we can't find a solution for this pest?
I have never seen these guys until i left 1 honey jar open like man this sucks
found them on my table in my pc
even in ym keyboard
Those little bastards got into my PlayStation 😠
Dang
Lol they also follow me into my school, i find some dead inside my books
I wonder if terro ant traps would work
Terro ant traps are amazing.
Solutions Pest & Lawn, I think the package says they won’t work for pharaoh ants.
They won't. Terro is the best consumer product for sweet ants. Pharoah ants will mostly ignore Terro.
I'm fighting a pharoah ant invasion right now. I've tried mixing bacon grease with borax - minimal interest. I tried mixing some bacon grease with terro (as some suggest) and not only was there no interest, it seemed to repel the ants. Now I'm trying melting a slice of american cheese with around 1 - 2 tbsp of milk in a small sauce pan, and around 1/4 - 3/4 tsp of borax. Mixed it on the stove, let cool and then spread to small pieces of cut up paper plate. Lots more interest but now to see if there's enough borax to do the job. These ants seem much more picky than sweet ants both with the type of bait and how much borax you can sneak in.
@@jcasetnl My Pharoah ants love Terro.
@@emmarose4234 I saw the same thing, the packaging I saw at Home Depot recently said will not work on pharaoh ants. Maybe they changed their product because years ago Terro was the product specifically for pharoah's .
These ants are kinda cool
WHEN THEY ARE OUTSIDE.
paraoh ant are only need food and up right on my body its very irritating 😖
oh my god, they are going on you? I never heard of that! I thought they would run away from humans.
@@frostflower5555 oh my god you are too bad😭😟
@@frostflower5555 nah they will attack you in your sleep lol. they are technically actually a kind of fire ant.
they're known to attack elderly people that cant escape them. they also attack people recovering from surgery by getting into tubing.
Oh I caught pharaoh ants queen and tiny eggs in my channel
Pharaoh ants destroyed my laptop wires. I mixed borax powder to sugar syrup, soaked in cotton, first they drink like mad and die by hundreds around cotton but soon stop drinking. Maybe order from high command not to drink. Ant colony still surviving in prosperity.
They seem to be attracted to wires. I saw them go around some electrical lighting stuff I put on the kitchen counter.
Phantom, phantom, phantom.
Oh like roaches and bed bugs
Man them bed bugs though ......those are annoying .....
🥺
They r in my headphones 😭
same dude, same Q.Q
Same 😭
They are also in my notebooks.
Also don't keep soft paper these ants loves tissues. They also make their home in tissues and also in my note books eating the papers 😠😭😭😭😭😭😥
oh my god, so far they were not found in tissues or paper. God help me, my building is infested.
diamataceous earth
Not effective against infestation.
I tried that, and it doesn't work!! I think they are walking past it or over it and it does nothing to them. Vinegar, bleach, peppermint does not work. Bait did not help. These are not your ordinary ants. They should call it something else. I never knew about this pest in my life till a recent infestation in my building. How can no one know how to deter them?
This video has some weird products and weird brands I've never heard of. You Americans used too much chemicals at home.
Pharaoh ants came to my town in 2019 with international packages. I had a simple solution: instead of kill the ants, 'tame' the ants.
Ants touched ant bait once but never touch it again. It's poison, the ants remember. Those ants always went for my mango juice, it's sweet and delicious. So I mix up acid pest poison with mango juice, pour it down on the floor, let the ants drink to death. The ants hate mango juice now.
As for other food, um, I don't like them anyway, ants can have them.