These are some of the natural remedies to avoid ant infestation at home. I hope it helps my friend Gemita, who asked me to do this, and everyone reading this article to avoid using chemical pesticides.
1 Sprinkle talcum powder on the bottom of doors and windows
2 Sprinkle red pepper or paprika in areas where ants are present
3 Using a spray bottle, spray vinegar on the areas where ants are found.
4 Place a sprig of oregano in your dispenser to keep it away from food.
5 Place lavender sprigs (or sprigs of lavender) in the areas where you have problems.
6 Prepare a mixture of sugar and borax. Place it where you have problems with it, it is a very good poison.
7 Pour coffee grounds into the garden and around the house. Ants can’t stand the smell. It also keeps cats away.
8 When you see the hole where the ants are entering, squeeze the juice of a lemon into the hole.
9 Peppermint, tansy or St. Mark’s herb and pennyroyal seem to repel them. Plant them near the house to keep them away. The red ones especially hate the sweet fern.
10 You can prepare a very simple recipe to repel ants by adding 30 ml of essence of each of these herbs to a 250 cm3 bottle of hand soap: citronella, pennyroyal, peppermint, cinnamon, rose and tea oil. Mix everything and dilute three tablespoons of the preparation in two cups of water. Spray the solution in areas of your home where you find ants. This formula is suitable for washing kitchen countertops. However, for this purpose, you should only dilute half a tablespoon of the mother preparation in two cups of water.
11 If you find ants in the trash cans, spray them with the first dilution as well. If you see anthills near your house, pour boiling water into them.
12 Once the ants have entered the house, other measures need to be taken. Scatter pennyroyal, tansy and peppermint leaves over areas where you find them. These plants serve as “deterrents.” Bay leaves cut into small pieces are also useful.
13 Another useful mixture to repel them is the following: 1 cup water, ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon hot chili or Tabasco sauce, ¼ cup liquid soap and 1 teaspoon peppermint or mint essence. Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray the places where ants enter the house.
14 Washing countertops with equal parts vinegar and water also works as a repellent. Another excellent remedy is ground cloves or pepper sprinkled where ants are seen. These insects hate both spices and can’t get through places where they can find them.
15 If you don’t want to use these spices for some reason, you can lay out fly paper in strategic places to catch any spices circulating around the house.
16 One of the strangest repellents in existence is broken eggshells. They prevent these insects from invading pantry shelves.
17 Another option is to place raw rice grains where they pass and let them take them to the anthill. In the moisture produced by rice it contains starch. This creates a fungus that feeds on moisture and oxygen it grows and runs out of oxygen, the fungus explodes and kills all the ants in that anthill and in 8 square meters they don’t return to grow another anthill for 12 months.
18 The most incredible device I have found borders on science fiction. It consists of pouring boron on some honey and letting the ants ingest the mixture. As soon as the boron is introduced into the anthill, it acts as a chemical weapon that destroys a fungus. The ants breed inside the anthill and this must obviously be vital for them, because as soon as the fungus died, the rabies ended.
19 A strong decoction of walnut leaves poured into an anthill kills the ants.
20 By burying fish intestines in the anthill and smearing the water on tree trunks where it was cleaned or washed, the ants flee from this smell and die if they breathe it nearby.
21 Prepare a nettle pulp: Crush the nettles in a mortar or other container and cook for half an hour (a handful of nettles in five liters of water). Allow to cool, stirring occasionally. Let rest for five hours. Apply and spray or water over the paths. Also drop it at the entrance to the anthill.
22 Mix 3 parts dish soap to 1 part water and spray the solution wherever you see ants. This erases the scent trail the ants leave behind so others can follow them.
23 This technique was invented by a teacher and some children in Uruguay. It seems that the ants invaded the school library and destroyed the books. To combat them, they use different types of plants and substances. Of all of them, two had a real impact.
Cloves and parsley against ants
When they put a clove and some biscuit in it, none of the ants came close to eating the biscuit. It seems very effective. If you add parsley essence to the biscuit. They ate the cookie but died instantly. Based on this experience, we prepare the following mixture: 3 cloves and a handful of dried parsley or grind them well until a powder is obtained. We apply this powder into the cracks and places where ants pass through. The results are very positive.
Ingredients:
3 cloves
1 handful of dried parsley
Preparation:
We grind the cloves and parsley well until they turn into powder.
Use:
We apply this powder into the cracks and places through which ants enter. The results are very positive.
24 Finally, remove any leftover food when you are finished eating, as crumbs are the biggest attraction for ants.