EASILY GET ANTS OUT OF YOUR HOME!

DISCOVER THE SAFE AND EASY WAYS TO STOP THE INFESTATION OF ANTS IN YOUR HOME EASILY WITHOUT USING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS

THE EASY HOME CARE SERIES

BY

DAVID FALZONE

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Table of Contents

Copyrights

Preface

Chapter 1: Those Pesky Ants

Chapter 2: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 1

Chapter 3: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 2

Chapter 4: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 3

Chapter 5: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 4

Chapter 6: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 5

Chapter 7: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 6

Chapter 8: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 7

Chapter 9: Final Thoughts

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Copyright © 2013, UGEI Publications

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Preface

Having creepy crawly ants in your home is not fun. It seems once they get in your house they make it their home too and it is almost impossible to get rid of them. They get into everything looking for a sweet treat to bring back to their queen. There are safe ways to get rid of an invasion of ants in your home.

Dealing with ants inside your house can be a nightmare. Having them outside is no fun either but it is part of nature and they are an important part of the ecosystem. Although that is true, you still don’t want ants to crawl up the legs of your picnic table while you’re having an outdoor meal. They are still uninvited guests.

There are safe and easy ways to get rid of ants, there is no reason they should be living in your house when they have all of outdoors to be free.

- DAVID FALZONE

Those Pesky Ants!

Everyone can agree that ants are very annoying pests that have the capability to ruin your day. Although they are mostly harmless insects but some bite and others can cause damage to property. They are tiny little insects that live in groups and form large colonies. Once they start invading the home they can definitely cause a headache for home owners.

There are many different kinds of ants that could invade your home. A few of them are, the common black ants that are fairly harmless, the feisty red ants that are aggressive and bite, and the Carpenter ants that can create structural damage to buildings. Regardless of the type of ants that are invading the home, everyone can agree that they want them out and away for good.

The most common pest problem when it comes to ants is the fact that they get into a home in search of food for their colonies. It becomes a big mess to clean and a lot of food typically wasted when they get to your pantries or cupboards containing such things as sugar, cookies and other foods stored in them.

There are many methods that can be used in order to get rid of the little pests and to keep them away. They range from simple home remedies to chemical treatments that are available to purchase for home use at stores or the extreme, the exterminator.

Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 1

CREATING SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

When having an ant problem at home, there are some simple home remedies that can be done in order to counteract the invasion of the little pests. It is always more productive to start off using the simple methods and tricks that are available. These simple tricks are very effective and can do the job very efficiently.

Chalk: This simple home remedy consists of drawing lines around the entrances into your house. Using chalk keeps the ants away because of the calcium carbonate that it is made of. It is a non toxic substance but ants are repelled by it.

Cayenne Pepper: It is a well known fact that ants come out during the summer and definitely make a bee line straight for the sugar. One sure fire method that could be used to keep the little pests away is sprinkling cayenne pepper in places where the ants would be coming in looking for food. This little method would tell them that there is no sugar where they are going.

Talcum Powder: This is essentially an organic ant repellent. Scatter generously around the house foundation and where ants are known to enter like doors or windows.

Cream of Tartar: Is an organic ant repellant and used the same way as the other home remedies, scatter generously around the house foundations and where the ants are known to enter, like doors and windows.

Oil of Cloves: This is an organic ant repellent and used the same, sprinkle on window sills and the entrances to your home to prevent ants from coming in.

Peppermint Oil: Ants don’t like the smell of peppermint and will steer clear of the places this aroma is. Using peppermint oil is a organic way to deter ants from coming in your home and feasting on your food.

Bay Leaves: Placing bay leaves on window sills and other places you see or think ants are getting into your home is another natural remedy.

Cornmeal: This is not a repellent but rather a deadly treat for ants. Sprinkle this around where you see ants coming in your house. They will eat it or bring it back to their nest to be eaten. After feasting on cornmeal ants will be thirsty, they will drink water and the cornmeal swells inside them and the ants die.

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CITRUS WORKS WONDERS!

Another way to get rid of ants is by using lemons. This is a clever trick, very useful and inexpensive when trying to get rid of ants because all one needs is a lemon. By just going around the kitchen squeezing a little bit of the lemon juice on the thresholds of doors leading into the house and the windowsill ants will not want to come into your home.

Squeeze lemon juice into the holes and cracks where you think the ants are coming in from. Also a great trick is to moisten a cleaning cloth with water and then sprinkle with lemon juice. Wipe down your counter tops and those little intruders will be so repelled by the scent of fresh lemon and at the same time will give your counter tops a lemony clean fragrance.

Oranges can be used almost the same way. Instead of the juice of the citrus fruit, the peel is used. Combine a few orange peels and a cup of warm water in a blender to make a smooth orange puree. Now taking the orange puree, slowly pour into cracks around the house in order to keep ants away and from coming in.

Using orange peels or lemon juice to prevent ants from coming into your home and going directly to the sugar bowl or pantry full of food really works. Something about the citrus smell the ants just don’t like.

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IF THEY ARE ALREADY IN…

When those pesky little ants are already in and wreaking havoc by their mere presence there are things you can do. There is no reason for you to share your home with those tiny creatures.

Keep ants away from the sugar and other spices that are in the cabinets by putting a bay leaf inside the containers. This little trick will keep the ants away and at the same time will give a pleasant smell to the house.

If ants are on your counter and making a direct line to your cookie jar there is a way to stop them in their tracks, literally. Take adhesive tape and with sticky side up surround the cookie jar or other sweet treat the ants are interested in collecting.

White Vinegar is an amazing product in itself with many awesome uses other than using it to eat with. If you want to tell the ants to get out!, get a spray bottle and pour equal amounts of white vinegar and water in bottle shake  and squirt in areas where the ants are and it will automatically repel them. Ants do not like the smell of the vinegar and they will promptly march away.

You can use this outside as well. If there is a huge amount of ants around the property, a more concentrated mixture can be used in order to make them leave in a hurry.

Ants are looking for sweet sugary treats to bring back to the nest. You can trick them into thinking no sugar is around by sprinkling cayenne pepper where you’ve seen them crawling around. The strong smell of this pepper will tell them they’ve come to the wrong place, no sweet treats here!

Sprinkling salt where you see ants uses the same concept like the pepper trick in that it will tell the ants that there are no sugary treats waiting for them at this particular spot.

Cinnamon is something to sprinkle on any ants you see in your home. Putting a little bit of cinnamon around the sugar bowl is effective in keep ants away from it as well. They don’t like the strong smell of this spice.

There is an unbelievable discovery that is so amazing for getting rid of ants. There are fragrance sprays available that are not for getting rid of ants but amazingly they do. There is a fragrance spray with a strong cinnamon smell, “spiced cider room spray”. Use that to spray on counter tops or where ever you see ants. It makes an invisible line ants won’t cross and they will just disappear.

Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 4

MAKING YOUR OWN “NATURAL” POISON

Sometimes you have to be a bit more aggressive in order to keep the ants out of your home. By mixing together a few household items you can make a concoction that will deter those pesky creatures from creeping back into your house. A natural way to keep ants away.

Bacon Grease and Cornmeal Concoction is a simple mixture that will naturally stop ants from coming into your home. All that is needed is five tablespoons of cornmeal; three tablespoons of bacon grease mixed up into a paste, then add three tablespoons of baking powder and three packages of yeast.

Place this little mixture on jar lids and place them around the perimeter of the house. Ants will flock to it and they will definitely not be able to go into your house after having a taste of this concoction. They won’t be able to go anywhere anymore.

Mixing honey and borax together is another concoction that works wonders in getting rid of pesky ants. Put it on jar lids and leave outside. The ants will flock to it and bring it back to the nest where it will destroy the colony.

With both of these methods if you have children or pets instead of putting concoction on a jar lid, put in a plastic container with holes in the top so the ants can crawl in and crawl back out with the “poison” loot to bring back to the nest.

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PULLING OUT THE BIG GUNS

When push comes to shove with these little pests then it means it is time to bring in the more serious products to get rid of these ants. These products can be bought at almost any grocery store and are a much stronger alternative to getting rid of the ants that keep showing up as uninvited guests. It is a bit more expensive but delivers great and faster results.

The one very popular method that is used, are gel or liquid baits that can be set around the house. This will attract the ants to come out. They will then eat the bait that was set out or they will bring the bait back to their colony and the rest of the ants, along with their queen, will eat it. This will definitely kill of the whole colony especially if the queen eats the treat her worker ants brought back for her.

A drastic method of getting rid of the ants is spraying insecticides around the perimeter of the house and the cracks from where they are making their way into the house. When the ants come in contact with the spray and even just the residue it would surely kill them. It will also create a barrier that will keep the ants out of the house and away from the perimeter. This definitely is a very useful way of keeping the ants out of the house.

Another drastic way to get rid of ants is by using boric acid and dashing it on any crevices or cracks that the ants are spotted. The container comes with a little blower to get small traces of the powder into the hard-to-reach places and any deep cracks where they are coming from.

It is important to remember that boric acid is toxic if ingested so keep children and pets away from the areas where it has been used.

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WHEN TO CALL IN THE PROFESSIONALS

There are times though that no matter what one does the ant problem just keeps coming back. No matter what, those little pests are relentless and they continue to invade. This would be a really good time to call in the professionals. Chances are if you cannot locate where the ants are coming from or get rid of them at all and they keep coming back, they already have a colony inside the house.

This is the most inconvenient ant problem that a home can have because it just keeps on returning and there seems to be no end to the cycle. Calling the professionals is the best way to solve this problem although it can be quite expensive.

There are many pest control services available for you to call at any time. This will definitely get rid of the ant problems that you are having at home and make sure that they will not come back anymore.

When a professional exterminator is called in they will use a chemical treatment in order to make the ant problem go away. They are using industrial grade chemicals which are very strong and should only be handled by people who are licensed and educated in the proper way of administering them.

Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 7

HAVING AN “ANT-FREE” PICNIC

When you are outside it is natural for ants to be around but that doesn’t mean you have to include them in your picnics. They are an important part of the ecosystem and have their role in nature but still they are uninvited guests to an outdoor picnic. To deter them from being attracted to your outdoor meal there are simple thing you can do.

Set the legs of your picnic table in a container of water. An old Frisbee or pie plate works well for thicker table legs. The water prevents the ants from getting to the table leg therefore making it impossible to crawl around on the table top and into your food.

Another trick is to fill a pie plate or old Frisbee with sugar water and place it a few yards away from your picnic area. The ants around will make a straight line to that tasty area and completely leave your picnic alone!

If ants happen to bypass the sugar water and are able to climb up the table leg despite the legs resting in water that they can’t cross, then hopefully you have a piece of chalk with you. When you set up your picnic table have a piece of chalk available for everyone to draw a circle around their plate. This will stop any ant from getting to your food.

Final Thoughts

It is very hard to get rid of ants from your home once they make it their home too. Tackling the job of removing pesky ants in a natural way can take time but it is well worth the effort since using harsh chemicals is always the last resort. Once there are no more of those little critters crawling around getting into your pantry stealing all the sweet things and bringing it back to the queen be sure to be vigilant about cleaning up and putting food away so you don’t entice them to come back again.

The last ditch effort that can be done would be to call a professional exterminator in to get rid of the pests. This is a more expensive way of making sure that the problem ends completely. The exterminator will come in and kill the ants at the source to make sure that the home is once again ant free.

Living in an ant free zone is what everyone wants. No one likes to share their home with insects. There are alternative ways to get rid of ants, the natural home remedy ways and the professional exterminator. Decide what is best for your infestation and follow through and get rid of them once and for all.

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Table of Contents

Copyrights

Preface

Chapter 1: Those Pesky Ants

Chapter 2: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 1

Chapter 3: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 2

Chapter 4: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 3

Chapter 5: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 4

Chapter 6: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 5

Chapter 7: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 6

Chapter 8: Ants Don’t Belong in Your Home # 7

Chapter 9: Final Thoughts

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