Ants LOVE sugar and can smell it from miles away. A neat trick is to place herbs like sage and bay leaves near your sugary food to eliminate the sugar smell. Last but not least, keep your home clean!
Keep food in storage containers, take out the garbage regularly and always clean the crumbs and spills that attract ants. Want to up your home organization game? Lemon juice Ants rely on a pheromone trail to navigate, so the key to getting rid of them is to disrupt their scent. Vinegar White distilled vinegar and water is a great cleaning solution — not only do ants hate the smell, but it also eliminates their scent trail.
And they will not cross a line drawn in chalk. I drew a line around my window where they were coming in and it kept them at bay. Anali: My grandparents had really good results with the line of chalk, they used powder that you can get at home improvement stores. Jennifer: Ants carry an acidic substance with them always for protection.
I do a mix of baking soda and powdered sugar in a plastic lid set in strategic places. I think a little volcanic science experiment happens inside their bodies.
Over the course of several days, it has made a huge difference. Lea : I have had success with used coffee grounds, I did know where their entry was, after putting it in the cracks they never returned. Jill: One more thing to add to this.
I saw somewhere to use cornmeal. Well, it worked out since some moths got into my cornmeal, and I felt bad wasting it. I sprinkled a little bit just off the back porch. Every day I would check and every day the same trail of ants was still there. Then I forgot about it.
My daughter found another ant nest further out in the yard, and it made me remember to check the last trail. It was gone, completely gone. So, I sprinkled it on the new nest, and less than a week later, it is gone. Rebecca: Cream of wheat! They eat it and it expands and they explode! I used it in my garden for ant problems. Kind of makes you wonder what it does to our insides when we eat it, too. Kristie: Vinegar!
Mysty: Vinegar is the one sure solution, but you need to pour it where the ants have their nest, not just to where they walk around. If you find their nest just pour about 0. Cath: We used a mixture of vinegar, washing up liquid ecover and peppermint oil last year. Tracked them back to their nest and syringed it into the cracks. They never came back. Tea Leaf: We killed our ants by mixing Equal packets with apple juice. It is a neurotoxin to the ants. Scary that people put these in their coffee.
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