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Natural Ant Control Recipes
Ant Prevention
For green ant repellent, the first line of defense is to remove attractants:
Cover and put in plastic baggies all jars and sacks of sugar, honey, jelly, and other sweets.
Keep your kitchen counters free of crumbs and sticky spots.
Cut off water sources such as drips or dishes left soaking overnight.
Repair and replace screens and window caulking at least once a year.
Ants often get on your roof from tree, branches, then use your gutters as ant expressways to get inside the house. Check to see if any branches are touching your roof and if so trim them.
Natural Ant Repellent Recipes
1. Set out cucumber peels or slices from bitter cucumbers in the kitchen, or at the ants' point of entry. Ants have a natural aversion to cucumber, especially bitter ones.
2. Mix together approx. 2/3 c water,1/3 c white vinegar, and 2-3 T dish soap. Spray as needed. Said to work as well as Raid.
3. Leave a few tea bags of mint tea, or dry crushed mint leaves near areas where the ants seem most active. Ants will not cross the following items: cayenne pepper, citrus oil (can be soaked into a piece of string), lemon juice, cinnamon , baby powder, catnip,or wet coffee grounds, Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castile Shampoo or other strong smelling mint shampoos , so set these items at the entry area in a small line. 4. Put a half teaspoon each of honey, borox, and aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, etc.), in small bottles. Place bottles on their sides, with lids off, in areas of most ant activity. Ants will carry the bait back to their colonies. Important: use indoors only; must be kept away from pets and children. Leave a small, low wattage night light on for a few nights in the area of most ant activity. The change in light can disrupt and discourage their foraging patterns. This works well for Natural Sugar Ant Control.
5. Squeeze boric acid paste into a straw and then cut the straw into 2 inch pieces and place around nest.
6.Mix a little peppermint toothpaste with a few drops of dishwashing detergent. Apply with Q tip inside kitchen cabinets, and anywhere ants are trailing.Borax powder (20 mule team borax) can be used as a dusting around the outside of the house.
7.Plant bee balm lavender, garlic, geranium, citronella, eucalyptus, clove, camphor, atlas cedarwood, mints, thyme, basil, rosemary, lemon balm, chili peppers around house. Stay away from planting ant magnets like honeysucke and trumpetcreeper.
8.Peanut butter with Boric Acid or Honey. Put into container that will keep pets out, but let ants in to eat and die.
9. For Carpenter Ants mix bacon grease, flour and boric acid and place it in a small glass jar with holes in the lid (this keeps kids and pets out) and mark the content. Just place near the nest. Ants will eat it and die over a period of weeks.
10. Liquid dish detergent will kill ants. Keep a mixture in a spray bottle for instant kill. The soap will destroy the chemical trail that they follow.
11.Mix half a teaspoon of BORIC ACID powder with some water until dissolved, then add 1 cup sugar and mix together with enough water until it is a runny syrup. . Put in a container or jar and put in a piece of paper towel so that it touches the bottom of the jar but comes over the top to touch a wall so that the ants will have access to it. Keep refilling until the ants stop coming. Ants will drink the mixture from the paper towel, take it back to the nest then the Boric Acid will scratch their digestive systems and kill them. At first, it may seem that you are attracting more ants and it could be days or weeks before ants stop coming but you will kill the whole nest eventually.
12. Mix 1 part active dry yeast,1 part of molasses or honey,a little water to thin.The consistency of this mixture should be like paste. Spread onto little two inch square pieces of cardboard and place anywhere you see ants.
13. Borax powder (20 mule team borax) can be used as a dusting around the outside of the house.
Natural Ant Repellent Recipes
1. Set out cucumber peels or slices from bitter cucumbers in the kitchen, or at the ants' point of entry. Ants have a natural aversion to cucumber, especially bitter ones.
2. Mix together approx. 2/3 c water,1/3 c white vinegar, and 2-3 T dish soap. Spray as needed. Said to work as well as Raid.
3. Leave a few tea bags of mint tea, or dry crushed mint leaves near areas where the ants seem most active. Ants will not cross the following items: cayenne pepper, citrus oil (can be soaked into a piece of string), lemon juice, cinnamon , baby powder, catnip,or wet coffee grounds, Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castile Shampoo or other strong smelling mint shampoos , so set these items at the entry area in a small line. 4. Put a half teaspoon each of honey, borox, and aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, etc.), in small bottles. Place bottles on their sides, with lids off, in areas of most ant activity. Ants will carry the bait back to their colonies. Important: use indoors only; must be kept away from pets and children. Leave a small, low wattage night light on for a few nights in the area of most ant activity. The change in light can disrupt and discourage their foraging patterns. This works well for Natural Sugar Ant Control.
5. Squeeze boric acid paste into a straw and then cut the straw into 2 inch pieces and place around nest.
6.Mix a little peppermint toothpaste with a few drops of dishwashing detergent. Apply with Q tip inside kitchen cabinets, and anywhere ants are trailing.Borax powder (20 mule team borax) can be used as a dusting around the outside of the house.
7.Plant bee balm lavender, garlic, geranium, citronella, eucalyptus, clove, camphor, atlas cedarwood, mints, thyme, basil, rosemary, lemon balm, chili peppers around house. Stay away from planting ant magnets like honeysucke and trumpetcreeper.
8.Peanut butter with Boric Acid or Honey. Put into container that will keep pets out, but let ants in to eat and die.
9. For Carpenter Ants mix bacon grease, flour and boric acid and place it in a small glass jar with holes in the lid (this keeps kids and pets out) and mark the content. Just place near the nest. Ants will eat it and die over a period of weeks.
10. Liquid dish detergent will kill ants. Keep a mixture in a spray bottle for instant kill. The soap will destroy the chemical trail that they follow.
11.Mix half a teaspoon of BORIC ACID powder with some water until dissolved, then add 1 cup sugar and mix together with enough water until it is a runny syrup. . Put in a container or jar and put in a piece of paper towel so that it touches the bottom of the jar but comes over the top to touch a wall so that the ants will have access to it. Keep refilling until the ants stop coming. Ants will drink the mixture from the paper towel, take it back to the nest then the Boric Acid will scratch their digestive systems and kill them. At first, it may seem that you are attracting more ants and it could be days or weeks before ants stop coming but you will kill the whole nest eventually.
12. Mix 1 part active dry yeast,1 part of molasses or honey,a little water to thin.The consistency of this mixture should be like paste. Spread onto little two inch square pieces of cardboard and place anywhere you see ants.
13. Borax powder (20 mule team borax) can be used as a dusting around the outside of the house.
14. Mix 4 to 5 tbsp. cornmeal, 3 tbsp. bacon grease, 3 tbsp. baking powder, 3 packages of rapid rise yeast .
Mix cornmeal & bacon grease into a paste, then add baking powder and yeast. Place mix on the insides of jar lids, and
set them near the ant hills. When ants eat this mixture, they swell up and die.
15. There is a new natural control called Nema-Seek that are beneficial nematodes that will kill ants when digested. Read more below about this natural ant control.
16. If you want to just go ahead and use an ant spray, Eco PCO AC is a non-chemical insecticide made from essential oils of cloves, cinnamon, thyme, oregano, and other organic ingredients. Also kills wasps and hornets. No CFC's.
WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS FOR NATURAL ANT CONTROL