You're a young married couple. You're all excited you just purchased your first home and have moved in with very few problems. What an exciting time!!!!
Then it begins to rain..(I forgot to mention it is April and the rainy season is upon you).
You wake up one morning to a parade of piss ants marching up your wall and across your counters!! OH NO!! what do you do? If you prefer to not use chemical treatments, I have a short list of some treatments (I've used some and know they work and know have heard of people having success with others and some are new to me.)
1. Natural Green Ant Repellant...1/2 tsp natural soap, 12 drops of peppermint oil, 8 oz water, combine in spray bottle and away you go
2. Ant Bait recipe..1/4 c sugar, 1/4 c baking yeast, 1/2 molassses, mix and spread on index cards and place around house where you've seen ants
3. Vinegar .. just spray away where you've seen them crawling (I've used this.. it works) Also, stay tuned for my 100 uses for vinegar blog coming soon . Well maybe not 100 exactly :-D
4. Baby powder, sprinkle on ants and around area where they are entering your house
5. Cinnamon.. my daughter told me about this. It is used a lot in southern California where housing developments and been built up in old orange groves. Sprinkle around like baby powder. I believe she said that people will also sprinkle a barrier all the way around their houses. (must be replaced periodically when applied that way, washes away with rain etc., but it doesn't really rain in southern California does it??)
6. Chalk.. I've not heard of this one before, but my sources believe they won't cross the "white" line. Must be chicken ants!!
7, Mint and other herbs.. plant around your house. this one goes back to #1 using the peppermint oil
8. Boric acid mixed with sugar....yummy this is carry out for tonight, take it home for din-dins!!
9. Ant spikes.. not home made, my ants come in around my door to the garage.. not much dirt there to pound a stake in to
10. Lighter Fluid...I can see all kinds of problems with this one. I'll leave it to your imagination.
I have also found myself just spraying the area they are coming in with cleaning spray like lysol etc will stop them. Leave it on wall, counter top area or wherever for a few days then wipe off. No more ants. At least for this rainy season.
I stay away from chemicals as much as possible. We have pets and I don't like to take any chances.
If any of you have different natural treatments, please feel free to post them :-)
So our happy couple read my list, got rid of their ants and lived happily ever after!!!
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