So here we are again, the wonderful summer time months, vacations galore and roads trips to bore. Hark! What is this though? A colony of Ants living under you sink? Good lord man, run and hide, do as Iron Maiden suggests and “Run To The Hills”
Oh? What’s that? You don’t want to run to the hills and hide? You don’t want to run for your lives? Well Eddie will be very disappointed, but alas, we do have some solutions for you, and eco friendly solutions at that!
- Ants hate Chalk, so draw a chalk like around where the ants are entering, and don’t forget up the wall as well because they are incredible climbers. Be careful though as if you block off one way of access, then they will seek out other ways.
- Put out Cream of Wheat, which contains farina. Don’t cook it first though, because this is the best part, when the ants eat it, it expands, boom! Ant parts everywhere, shazzam!
- If you don’t like explosions and killing them though, you can always see where an area where ants like to come and hang out quite a bit is, and use Corn Meal will help to deter them away from that area. Corn meal has several advantages, for one it’s not poisonous to animals or people, and two, it gives ants digestive problems and they will choose to no longer eat from the area they got it from.
- Laurel leaves. Yes, just put them around places that you see ants, and they’ll scatter like there’s no tomorrow. Leave it in your sugar can, leave it with your cookies. Sure, you might occasionally have a funny taste with your food, but it’s better than swallowing a thousand ants though isn’t it?
- Boric acid, about as harmful to humans as salt, but it dissolves the ants exoskeleton. Get something sugary that they’ll love and put it in a dish, sprinkle boric acid around the edges of that dish and slowly and painfully the ants will begin to dissolve as they seek out their precious and now precarious sugar.
- Lastly, don’t leave soda cans out, junk out, food out, as this attracts them and tells them where to hunt in your home for sustenance.
Thank you for your time and for reading this, and may your Summer only be filled with ants when you picnic going forward.
