When I moved into my new house it was invaded by ants. Especially when the gardener would rearrange the trees. Are ants invading your house? Do you find ants everywhere? Here is the most effective, easy, and natural way to get rid of them without using poison.
Steps
- First of all, make sure all the food in your house is sealed up, so that the ants can’t get to it. Do this for about a week. When the ants have nothing to eat, will go somewhere else. This works because the ants are following the chemical trails left by other ants, who did find food.
- Put laurel leaves to keep ants away from a particular place.
- Use chalk to keep ants away from your kitchen areas. It’s amazing to see how they move away from any chalk lines.
- Corn meal is also a great way to get rid of them. This is especially great around pets or children, as corn meal by itself is not poisonous. The ants will carry it home and try to eat it, but they can’t digest it properly. Be sure to put corn meal wherever you see places that the ants like to be.
- Use boric acid. It is not harmful to humans.
- Pour about a tablespoon of maple syrup on a flat plate.
- Sprinkle the boric acid around the syrup so that the ants must walk through it to get to the syrup, you may even use a q-tip to ensure a good distribution of the powder around the syrup.
- Boric acid dissolves their skeleton. This works on all insects with external skeletal systems. This is why they need only pass through it and not eat it.
Put out uncooked Cream of Wheat where you know there will be ants. When the ants eat it, it will expand.
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