While you can use insecticides and pesticides to rid your home of ants, you can also control them with chemical-free products. Before using any product to get rid of ants, keep in mind that there are three things you must do to deter ants from entering your home in the first place:
Since ants find it nearly impossible to cross sticky substances, use petroleum jelly as a barrier. Buy several large containers of Vaseline and, using a Q-Tip or your finger, smear the jelly around the cracks of each window of your house. Make certain that you use the jelly on the inside as well as the outside of each window. Spread the jelly all around door jambs, on thresholds, in foundation cracks, and anywhere you've seen ants trailing into or out of your house.
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Discover More2015-06-09 12:33:22
I've always found the absolute best product to use on ants is Terror liquid ant bait traps. They're filled with a liquid ant food that's poisoned. When they take it back to the ant colony, they all die. You need to pour a little bit of the liquid out onto the floor or wherever you have the problem, so they find it. Then let them feed on it. Hundreds will come to take the bait. Let it sit for 2-3 days and all the ants will be dead.
2014-09-20 18:29:43
christinne
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2012-06-18 21:06:01
Noelle
I use Crisco - works the same as Petroleum Jelly by blocking their trail.
2012-06-18 14:37:45
Heather
I was just at the Happy Valley Farmer's market this weekend and bought an organic product called ANT OUT. It is OMRI certified and food grade quality that works incredible!! safe for on my counter tops and outside. the local company at the market was called NW ORGANIC SUPPLY.
2012-06-17 23:57:34
Thomas
Household salt works like a charm. Sprinkle it around your house (or other affected area) and ants will stay away.
It can also kill weeds, but does not harm the environment. Doesn't cost much either. ;)
2012-06-17 19:42:22
John Hoke
Hi. years ago my wife and I discovered the ultimate anti-ant solution. Buy a couple of ozes of Cloves, scatter them in all of your drawers, windows sills, corners and shelves and they will not come back. IT WORKS like a charm on our Northern California Ants, how do they work for ants in other places?
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