- In lieu of harsh insecticides, dish soap can be highly effective in killing ants on the spot or eradicating scent trails. Mix soapy water in a spray bottle and spray ants on sight as a safe alternative to bug sprays. Spray areas that you have seen ants travelling to eliminate their scent trail, making it difficult for them to know which way to go.
- Commonly used for cleaning, borax can help to clean up your ant problem as well as your laundry and other household surfaces. Ants won't be attracted to plain borax so you will need to disguise it to get ants to consume it. Mix equal parts jelly and borax, and leave it places for ants to find. You can also mix ½ cup sugar and ½ cup borax into a gallon of warm water and soak cotton balls in it. Set the cotton balls out for ants to find similar to the jelly. When ants take this toxic bait home, many of them will die. To keep kids and pets out of it, place the bait into a plastic container with holes poked in the side for easy ant access. Keep them out of reach of your kids and animals.
- Commonly used for cooking, cornmeal is simple for us to digest, but not so much for ants. Cornmeal expands their stomachs as soon as they drink something, which can kill them quickly. Sprinkle cornmeal where ants have been found. They will look no further than the tasty treat you so kindly left out for them and take it home, reducing your ant population significantly.
- This natural and family safe substance has many known uses; one of them is making an ant's life miserable. This gooey substance is a bit much for the ant's tiny legs. If you apply it in the right places, ants won't reach their final destination. Smear petroleum jelly on planters and walls and any other surfaces ants like to climb. They will become stuck and progress no further. Clean up the gooey ant mess as needed and reapply it.
Dish Soap
Borax
Cornmeal
Petroleum Jelly
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