How do You Get Rid of Ants in Your Bathroom?

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Whether you own or rent your home, you’ll be faced with a pest problem sooner or later. People are often skittish about cockroaches, spiders, and rodents, but ants can be a huge annoyance. Discovering ants in your bathroom can really put the kibosh on your day, especially if there’s a trail of them running up the wall or along the floor.

To help alleviate your stress, we’re going to take a look at some methods you can use to get rid of ants and some prevention tips to keep them away.

Why Ants Will Enter Your Bathroom

Like every other pest at one point or another, ants want to get inside your home because they’re looking for food sources. While your bathroom may not have traditional snacks like your kitchen will, there can still be odors that will attract ants inside. Even if they don’t find exactly what they’re looking for, they can pick up enough edible particles to keep them coming back for more.

Getting Rid of Ants in Your Bathroom

If you discover a line of ants in your bathroom or even just a few scouts, you should get rid of them as soon as possible.

Here are some tried-and true ant control methods you can try:

Vacuum Cleaner

Many homeowners seem to discount the power of a vacuum cleaner when it comes to getting rid of pests, including ants. The thing is, a small shop vac with a crevice tool attached will easily suck these little invaders right up. Just make sure that you either empty it right away or sprinkle in a small amount of boric acid in the bottom of the tank to kill the ants.

Bleach and Water

While sporadic ants can be a bit time-consuming to dispose of, you can take care of an ant trail very easily. Simply pour a small amount of bleach in a spray bottle filled with water and shake it up. Then, spray this mixture along the line of ants to get rid of them quickly.

Pest Fumigation

If there are a lot of ants in your bathroom, then the best do-it-yourself solution may be fumigation. This is done with the use of a fogger that will fill up your bathroom and kill every ant. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to stay out of the bathroom for approximately two hours and you’ll want to clean up the dead ants and any residue left behind. Leaving this to professional pest control experts is your best option.

Natural Sprays

There are several types of eco-friendly essential oils that can be used to rid your home of ants. These natural sprays come in a variety of fragrances such as:

  • Peppermint oil
  • Tea tree oil
  • Lemongrass
  • Eucalyptus
  • Citronella

Granular/Gel Traps

Granular and gel ant traps are available at your local department store and some grocery stores. With each trap, the ants are attracted to the bait and then take the poison back to the queen. Granular baits are perfect in places like behind your toilet and under the sink while gel can be applied to areas such as loose baseboards, pipe entry points, and cracks in the floorboards.

Ant Bait Stations

Easily one of the most popular do-it-yourself solutions for getting rid of ants is the use of a bait station. These bait stations work just like granular and gel bait except that they’re contained within a plastic disc. The worker ants enter, take the bait, and then deliver it back to the colony, eventually reducing their numbers or eliminating them all together.

Which Methods Don’t Really Work

Any of the above methods well typically work quite effectively in getting rid of ants in your bathroom. That being said, there are a few homemade solutions commonly mentioned online that either don’t work very often or not at all.

These include homemade ant traps and methods that use baking soda, borax, peanut butter, and coffee grounds. You may get lucky and kill a few of them, but there’s simply no science behind their effectiveness.

Keeping Ants Out of Your Bathroom

As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – and that goes for ant control, too. You can keep ants from entering your bathroom by following these tips:

Keep Everything Clean

As we’ve gone over before when discussing ants and other pests, one of your best defenses is to keep everything clean. With dirtiness comes odors, and with odors, comes ants. Figure out a daily and weekly cleaning schedule, and then make sure that you stick with it so that you’re less likely to get pests of all sorts.

Seal Cracks and Gaps

Ants are very small, which means they’ll take full advantage of any entry points leading into your home. If you’re having problems with ants in your bathroom, check for any small cracks or gaps that will allow them to come inside. Then, depending on their size, seal them with either caulk, spray foam, or weather-stripping.

Respond Immediately

If there’s anything funny about ants, it’s just how quickly you can go from having none to having a hundred in any given space. You could go to bed and not have any in your bathroom at all and then when you wake up, it’s like someone advertised for a party. Since this can happened so quickly, you need to respond immediately so that the ant problem doesn’t get worse.

Call a Pest Control Expert

Although ants don’t typically carry disease, they can still carry bacteria that may make household members or pets sick. If you wind up with an ant infestation that you can’t handle, call a pest control expert right away. The same goes for situations where ants are showing up over and over again even after you’ve eliminated some of them.

Contact ProHealth Pest Control to Get Rid of Ants in the Bathroom

ProHealth Pest Control can help you get rid of ants in your bathroom and any other pest that’s giving you grief. If you have any questions about our pest control services or would like to make an appointment, reach out r by calling (727) 308-2543 today to schdule a free consultation.