Keeping ants away using household stuff

2. INTRODUCTION
• Ants, by themselves, are pretty harmless. Unfortunately, they almost never travel alone, and a
infestation of ants at your home can be a huge bother, not to mention having to throw away food.
Then there are the poisons that can be harmful to small children or pets you may have, or are just
unpleasant to be around.
• Here are some natural ways to scare those ants away and prevent them from coming back using
just natural, organic products most people keep at home or can easily get at the grocery store.

3. CUCUMBER / CITRUS PEEL
Place the cucumber or citrus fruit peel near the place where you see ant
activity.
Citrus fruit and cucumbers are toxic to a certain tiny mushroom ants feed
on, and so they avoid them.

4. CINNAMON STICKS / CLOVES OF GARLIC
Follow the trail of ants and try to identify where they entered. For
example: Windows, doors and various holes around the house. Place
cinnamon sticks or cloves of garlic in it, as close as possible.
Cloves of garlic give out a strong smell and so it is recommended to leave
cinnamon sticks, which have a nice aroma. If you do choose the garlic,
peel it, cut it up and then put it down. You can put cinnamon sticks in your
pantry to prevent future ant visits.

5. VINEGAR
Put some vinegar in a spray bottle and spray the places where you last saw
the ants as well as their points of entry. Vinegar harms the ant's sense of
smell and destroys the pheromons they leave behind them to help them
find their way.

6. TALC / CHALK POWDER
Create a small 'barrier' of talcum or chalk powder in the ants' points of
entry. The talc, the material found both in talcum powder and chalk,
destroys their sense of smell and makes it extremely hard for them to cross,
so a little barrier will help prevent the ants from coming in where you don't
want them.

7. BLACK PEPPER
Sprinkle some black pepper on the trail of ants and see how they quickly
disperse. Now you can track them and see where they came in through.
Make sure you sprinkle some black pepper there, too.

8. CORNMEAL
If you encounter a really big problem with an ant infestation, you may
want to use cornmeal. Cornmeal doesn't just prevents ants or makes them
run away - it kills them. Ants see it as food but in reality they can't digest it
and they eventually die. It won't kill them as quickly as poison, but it
definitely works and is definitely cheap and environmentally friendly to
use in your home.