Ants are attracted to the availability of food and can usually find a good meal in the kitchen. You can get rid of ants by using something you habitually have in the kitchen as a bait and diligently cleaning the spaces every day. Get rid of ants by following these guidelines.
Steps
Method 1 of 4: Observation
Step 1. Follow the ants for a few minutes
Try to understand the window, the side of the garden, the door or the draft through which they enter.
Step 2. Notice the path the ants take
You will find that they always do the same round. It will be important to pay particular attention to this path when cleaning: if you clear it it will be more difficult for insects to follow it.
Step 3. Find the nests in your garden or outside the house
Although it is not always possible to trace the colony, if found this would prove useful to solve the problem at the root.
Put some orange peels and a cup of hot water in a blender. Pour everything on top of the ant nest
Method 2 of 4: Clean
Step 1. Clean dirty dishes immediately
The latter, if they were in other rooms, would move the problem by transferring it throughout the house.
- Wash any containers that ants have gotten into, such as the fruit bowl, sugar container, and syrup container. Fill the containers and close them well, then put them in the fridge until you have eradicated the insects. # Vacuum your kitchen and anywhere else the ants have been seen. Not only will you pick up the ants, but also hidden crumbs.
- Vacuum the kitchen floor every few days. Make sure you can get under the furniture and the dining table.
- You should vacuum before setting traps.
Step 2. Clean containers, drawers and floor regularly with vinegar
This will erase the paths that the ants follow.
Keep a spray bottle filled with vinegar in the kitchen. Clean the containers by spraying the vinegar and also the dish towel
Method 3 of 4: The Borax in the Ant lure
Step 1. Prepare a borax-based bait
Put one cup of sugar and one cup of borax in a bowl. Add water until you get a syrup.
Step 2. Get some business cards
Put the syrup on the tickets and place them near the entry point of the ants into the house.
The ants will eat the syrup bringing the poison to the colony. The ants in the nest will eat the dead mates, killing most of the colony
Step 3. Place some business cards, soaked with borax bait, in other places where ants crowd, such as the space under the sink or in cabinets
Make sure that children and any pets cannot access the places where you have placed the poisoned business cards. While not particularly toxic to adults, it can poison young children and animals. Wash your hands after touching the borax
Step 4. Sprinkle borax in places where you have seen ants moving, in the garden or outside the house
You will have to do this again every time it rains.
If children or dogs frequent the garden or the area where you should put borax, replace it with talc or cinnamon
Method 4 of 4: Preventing Ant Infestations
Step 1. Keep food safe from ants, even when it needs to be out of the fridge
Spread scotch tape, in a circle, around the bowl or plate, with the sticky side facing up. The ants will not be able to cross this border.
Step 2. Protect food when picnicking by placing bowls full of water under the legs of your picnic table
Ants will not be able to climb and climb the table legs.
Step 3. Plant the mint around the house
It will deter the ants from entering. Remember that mint plants grow fast and spread quickly in the garden.
