by R. Renee Bembry

Created on: May 02, 2010   Last Updated: May 11, 2010

Getting rid of ants in your kitchen could take weeks even when using common household ant killers that kill ants on contact. In fact, ant spray instructions inform users pesticides can remain on sprayed surfaces for weeks (some brands for months).

Agreeing to allow ant spray to remain affixed to sinks, cabinets, and countertops might sound great as users read on to discover that during the weeks the pesticides remain they continue to rid homes of ants. A little further label examination, however, should remind users that ant sprays are “pesticides”. They contain ingredients like imiprothrin and cypermethrin. That is why they kill pests - ants. This means leaving ant spray around your home is the equivalent of leaving poisonous material around your home.

Ants cannot avoid the fact that they are annoying at picnics or infuriating in human households. They cannot help that humans find them pesky little creatures that become overly persistent when their sensors detect and locate food sources. It is only ant nature that whether food sources are sweet things like candy, gum, and cake, or salty goods like chicken, bacon, and chips, ants are compelled to zero in on detected foodstuff like sharks approaching blood. In addition, ants cannot help that no matter how clean humans keep their homes, they can still wake up one morning to find ants in invading their kitchens.

Forming lines like soldiers in warfare, ants lift food specs several times their body weight and scurry across floors, tables, and countertops carrying ware like dads toting groceries.

When humans spot ants in their kitchens, they turn into television commercial actors, and begin spraying ant trails as if insecticides were not poisons but aromatic cleaning solutions. No matter how thin or thick the trails, sprayers saturate floors, walls, sinks, dishes, countertops, and even pantries with wet greasy poisonous spray determined to get rid of ants in their kitchens - or other areas in their homes; and then - just like that - those pesky little ants instantaneously keel over and lay dead.

Then what does a user do? Ant spray instructions fail to mention what to do once initial spraying results in killing ants. They only tell users to apply more product as needed; and yet, no insecticide user wants to leave dead insect messes around their homes to see if more pests come the next day or next week so they can die from the same spray application.

A better way to get rid of ants in your

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