With the onset of spring, residents of private homes often find ants in their dwellings, which eventually become an intrusive problem. These insects constantly migrate in search of food, so if in your trash can often lie food scraps, then there is a high probability that they will want to stay here for a long time. Considering the fact that they multiply very quickly, your dwelling will begin to swarm with these small creatures in a month. How can we deal with them? This can be organized in two ways - modern chemicals and folk methods. In the first case, it will be enough for you to buy a special gel or powder and distribute the insecticide in places of insect gathering according to instructions on the package. However, before you spend money on chemicals, it is better to try the folk remedy for ants. Perhaps it will help you avoid unnecessary waste.
How can you get rid of the ants in the house with folk remedies?
The experience of fighting insects accumulated for many years, so now you have the opportunity to one of the proposed methods, without doubting its effectiveness. So, the struggle with ants can be carried out by the following folk remedies:
- Boric acid . Mix the egg yolk cooked with sugar. You can add honey or jam. In the resulting mixture, pour 25 g of boric acid and divide the mass into several parts. Spread the yolk in "suspicious" places and the next morning you will see that the insects begin to die. The remedy is good because the ants bring poison into the nest, because of which the entire family is being destroyed.
- Adhesive tape . Secure the tape or insulating tape in the habitat of insects, providing it with bait in the form of treats. The ants will be stuck on the tape for a long time, than they themselves will ruin. The disadvantage of this remedy is that in this way you destroy only a small part of the creepy.
- Yeast . Mix yeast, boric acid and honey. Obtain the obtained substance on a flat plate and leave it in the place of congestion. This is a great help in dealing with black and red ants.
- Sharp smells . Murashk scare away the smell of camphor, garlic, citrus, mint. Try rubbing a mint leaf or clove garlic clove in the apartment and if the insects went to you only to feed, then soon they will move to another object.
To further prevent the appearance of ants, try to carefully clean the kitchen and store all the products (especially sweets and fruits) in sealed packages.