Are ants harmful to the human body?

In the fields or streets, traces of ants can be seen in many narrow gaps. Ants are social animals and once they are found, their numbers will be very large. Ants are divided into different species with different functions. In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, ants are also regarded as a Chinese medicinal material, which is most effective in curing diseases and enhancing the patient's resistance. However, after being bitten by an ant, you should not take it lightly. So what kind of harm can ants cause to the human body?

1. Direct losses caused by stealing and contaminating food, damaging wood, and harassing humans;

2. Indirect losses caused by diseases spread by ants. Ants forage for food everywhere in the room, invading kitchens, storage rooms and other places in large numbers, consuming and contaminating food and destroying items. When the density is high, ants can seriously affect people's work and rest.

3. When ants are irritated, they can also bite and attack people directly.

4. When ants crawl around, they can also bring various bacteria, viruses and other pathogens into food, spreading diseases.

Home Ant Removal Guide

Ants are sensitive to temperature and are mostly active in hot weather. They like sweet foods, such as cakes, honey, maltose, brown sugar, eggs, fruit cores, meat skin, dead insects, etc. They can identify roads and move extremely quickly. If individual worker ants die, their bodies will be transported back to the ant nest. But they cannot tolerate hunger. Without food and water, half of them will die after four days and nights.

Experts suggest that household ants can be controlled by first soaking them in boiling water and then putting laundry detergent into the ditch to block them. You can also use sprays to kill cockroaches and mosquitoes. These medicines are effective in killing small red ants. However, the little red ant is a semi-social insect. Ordinary spray pesticides can only kill the worker ants in the colony that leave the nest. The queen ants and the king ants, which are breeding machines, are still reproducing crazily in the nest. A queen ant can give birth to 600 baby ants every second, so it is ideal to take collective action across the entire building to eliminate ants. The best way is to choose a poison bait that has good palatability and has no repellent effect on ants. After the worker ants carry the poison bait back, the ant king, queen ants and larvae in the nest will be poisoned and killed, causing the entire nest to be destroyed. (Taiming: Taiming's ant bait is particularly effective against this type of ant)

Use the characteristics of ants to eliminate them:

Ants often hang out in kitchens with oily food. You can use this feature to kill them. Before going to bed at night, move all food to a place where ants cannot reach, then put a piece of fat pork on the ground and prepare a thermos of boiling water. The next morning, the ants will gather on the fat pork and enjoy the meal. Do not scare them away, but kill them immediately with boiling water. Do this a few times and you can kill them completely.