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Ants are not of much trouble unless they invade your food storage areas. You need to be extra careful about the place where food is kept. If ants get into the food or food products then you have suffered some loss. You will need to immediately discard all the contaminated food.
If the problem persists, you can call any O’Fallon Pest Control services to assist you in this matter.
Let’s take a look at few points that will help you to keep ants away from your property:
- Put Boiling Water
If you find lots of ants roaming in your house and/or garden area, your place needs pest control services. If you see ant hills, you can throw a pot of boiling water on it to let the ants drown in it and finally submit to the extreme hot temperature of the water. Ants cannot survive extreme heat and hence they all die within few seconds of you pouring boiling water on them.
You can always use other techniques if you do not want to be too harsh on them.
- Use Diatomaceous Earth
This is again a very harsh step you can take only if you have lots of ants at your place. Diatomaceous earth is food-grade silica that exterminates ants by causing them dehydration and ripping their bodies with its sharp features. You may want to use it only if you are facing huge losses by ants.
- Sprinkle Cinnamon Powder
The smell of cinnamon suffocates ants. They find it too pungent. You can sprinkle some cinnamon powder at the opening of any ant hill or on the path of ants. You can also make a solution of cinnamon oil and water and the spray it on ant trails. You can spray this solution on window panes, door entrance and cracks or other gaps.
- Keep Coffee Grounds
Coffee grounds are acidic in nature. The acid in the caffeine cause damage to the ants’ exoskeletons. You can make a two and a half inches thick line of coffee beans around your property to expel ants with its smell. Coffee grounds near the kitchen area or food storage containers will help you get rid of ants for a long time.
- Use Other Herbs or Spices
Turmeric powder, cayenne and black pepper powder among all stand as the most effective herbs and spices to expel ants from your property. Most of the people in Asian countries like India make a thick line with turmeric powder at the edges of the kitchen countertop. This practice helps in keeping the ants away for quite a number of days.
- Use Some Essential Oils
Lemongrass, cedarwood, clove, tea tree, orange, lemon and peppermint oils are some of the best ones to disrupt the ant trails. These oils destroy the trails made by the ants to communicate with each other, navigate and search for food. This is the most natural way to expel ants from your place. These oils stick to the surface for quite some time thereby expelling ants for comparatively long time.
- Spray Vinegar Water
Vinegar has a lot of uses. One of its uses is to expel ants (when used as an insecticide). You can mix one spoon of vinegar with three spoons of water and spray the solution on the trails of ants. This process will not only disrupt the pheromone trail but will also kill the ants.
- Keep Your Place Clean
Cleanliness is a solution to most of the pest-related problems. If you have good habits and keep things organized, you are giving next to zero scope to the pests to invade your property. You can call for any O’Fallon Pest Control services to help deal with this matter quickly.
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