Dealing with ants
If you have toddlers or children at home, then
surely there is bound to be unwanted guests at your home “ANTS”. They
are a nuisance to mankind but there are many tried and tested ways in
which you can surely get rid of them without any trouble.
However, first you must remember that the root cause of ants in your
house is leftover food, water or anything that can help them survive. If
you have pots in your house or a garden then they are sure to thrive
there. So the first thing that you must do is maintain a clean and
hygienic environment. The garbage should be kept in a tight box and see
that ants cannot enter the box.
Keep your food in air tight containers and do not keep any uncovered
food in the kitchen. Ants do require water to survive and if you have
any water that can attract ants, get rid of it. Get rid of all the
cracks in your house too. Ants do enter through cracks. There are many
methods to eliminate ants, but if your house is dirty then all the
methods you use to eliminate ants will go in vain. So first and
foremost, maintain a clean and hygienic house, especially the kitchen.
One of the safest way to get rid of ants is by dissolving 2-4 teaspoons
of sugar in a cup of water. Now take some paper tissues and soak them in
this sugar-water solution. Keep these papers overnight on your kitchen
sink. This is one way to trap all the ants in the morning the next day.
Take equal parts of vinegar and water, put it into a sprayer and
spray it on the windowsills, cabinets or cracks or any other places from
where the ants originate. You can even try pouring pepper powder or
turmeric powder on the ant trails. They will soon disappear. You can
pour lemon juice or keep lemon rinds just outside your door or the place
where the ants enter your home. Chalk powder, talcum powder and even
salt can keep the ants at bay. You can even apply petroleum jelly on the
rims of your pet’s food bowls to keep ants away. You can even spray
insecticides along the perimeter of your house but be careful that your
children are away. If you do this, ants will not enter the house. Ants
are known to be attracted to sweet liquid, so you can take boric acid
mix it with honey and heat it till it dissolves. Then you can add water
and then put it in the places where the ants visit the most. There are
many ways to get rid of ants, but they will keep visiting your house if
there is any leftover food or water or anything that the ants can
consume. 
So what is a permanent method to get rid of the ants? You should try and
kill the queen ant. She is responsible for producing the thousands of
ants that cause havoc in your house. The queen ant normally can be found
in the ant's nest. The queen generally hides at the bottom so you have
to destroy the entire nest and get rid of the queen. But that can be
really difficult to do especially if you stay in an apartment or flat
complex.
Wipe all the tables and the counter tops regularly with a very mild
bleach or vinegar solution. Try to clean, mop and sweep the floors
regularly especially if there are children who keep dropping the food
anywhere and everywhere. So the most important step to keep ants from an
arms distance is to maintain a clean house, with all the food in air
tight containers and seal all the cracks and you will soon realize that
these constant visitors( ants) are now extinct. |
