How to Get Rid of Ants?

Do you find the big ant queues wherever you see inside your home? Is your home affected by the ants and you want to get rid of them? Then here are some natural and inexpensive techniques to eliminate ants’ infestation.

Let’s have a look.

• Lemon or peppermint flavored water

  Lemon or any other citrus fruit juice can work wonders in removing the ants from your home. Lemon juice does not kill the ants but its smell competes with the scent trails that ants leave while moving from one place to another. This disrupts the path of the ants following them and thus break the ant flow.

  You have to simply sprinkle the lemon juices in the area affected by ants and all of them will be gone in minutes.

• Block the entrance

  Usually, the ants move in long queues. There is always an entrance or passage in your home from where they can get in. You just have to do one thing; block that passage and this will prevent their entry into your home.

• Borax

  Make a liquid solution using borax, sugar, and water. Dip a cotton ball inside and apply the solution at the affected sites. This will act as a solid ant repellent and the ants will disappear within minutes.

  

• Keep your home clean

  Last but not the least, in fact, the most important point is to keep your home neat and clean and maintain the hygiene around. An unclean place becomes home for the ants to attack. Thus, clean your house regularly.

• White vinegar

  Make boundaries with the help of white vinegar. It will block the passage for ants inside the home.

• Food grade diatomaceous earth

  You can put these diatomaceous earth inside the grain bags, sugar boxes and various other food packets to prevent the attack of ants on them. As this is a food grade product, it doesn’t cause any smell or affects the food items adversely. This Des helps a lot to the farmers for storage purposes.

• Bay leaves

  If you have small children and pets in your home and you don’t want to go for chemicals or pesticides, try using bay leaves. Just grind the dried bay leaves and sprinkle it on the head of the anthill in your lawn. It will really help.

• Chalk

  Yes, you heard it right. The chalk you used to see in schools helps a lot to get rid of the ants. The reason is the chalk contains calcium carbonate that interferes with their ability to trace the path followed by other ants. You can use the chalk stick or even the powdered chalk to make boundaries.

  

• Petroleum jelly

  The ants find it nearly impossible to cross sticky surfaces. And petroleum jelly can do wonders in this case. So, applying the same at the affected site is surely going to help.

• Burn down the ant hill

  You can also search for the origin of ants and can destroy it. An anthill is a home for all ants. Place a pot upside down on the anthill to cover it and pour hot boiling water over it. It will break in few moments and thus the ants, including the queen, also get destroyed.

  These were a few reliable ways through which you can get rid of ants at your place. However, if the ants’ infestation is severe, it is highly recommended to hire ants control company and let them do the job for you. Book Pest Control Services.