7 Ways to Prevent Ants from Invading Your House

While ants are not the most dangerous insect that can wreak havoc in your home, they are certainly one of the most annoying.

Ants have an amazing sense of smell and taste and when there is food out, they will find it. In fact, one ant usually leads to thousands, if not millions, in a matter of hours. You need to work fast to get rid of these efficient little workers for good.

Here’s how:

1. Think Like an Ant

The first task when it comes to getting rid of ants is to start in the kitchen and think like an ant. Anywhere there is food, an ant will soon follow. Take the time to buy containers to store food that has already been opened and to always clean up the crumbs and the mess in your kitchen ASAP.

2. Feed the Kids, Not the Ants 

When it comes to your children and meal time, you may feel like you are following them around with a vacuum cleaner just to pick up their cookie, cracker and cake crumbs. Take the time to do a quick sweep every evening before bed to stop the ant invasion. Or, buy a dog they are great vacuums! Make sure you sweep up the kitchen area every night before going to bed to get even the slightest crumbs that ants seem to seek out.

3. Limit Meal Time to a Certain Place

Furthermore, try to limit meal time to a certain place in the house, such as at the kitchen table. Or, even better, set up a picnic table outside on the grass where they can enjoy their morning and afternoon snacks.

4. Wipe all Containers

In addition to buying containers and sealing everything off, you should also wipe down all your containers and jars, especially things like peanut butter, honey and jam. If you do not want to use disinfectant to clean the area, then you can use vinegar which works just as well without the chemicals in the air.

5. Take The Rubbish Out of the House

Furthermore, take the rubbish out of the house and into the main bin at least once a day to prevent ants and other insects from trying to get into your garage bin.

6. Use Natural Ant Repellents

Of course, ants still have a way of coming into the house looking for food, even if there is nothing there. An easy method to stop these ants in their tracks is to use a spray bottle filled with soapy water. This is the safest method to get rid of the ants for good. You can also add citrus peels or mint oil which are also known to repel ants.

7. Stop ants outside before they get inside your home!

After all that is said and done, we personally think that stopping them outside is better than having to stop them when they’re inside your home. Ants are currently quite active at this time of the year. And they are usually going to undermine pavers. That’s another problem altogether. But we’ve got a solution that will hit two birds with one stone.

The unique benefit of this PestXpert product is that it destroys the whole ant nest by killing the Queen you kill the queen, you kill the colony.

Ants are tiny creatures so you can’t be so sure they aren’t hiding in your home. With the PestXpert Nest Kill Ant Bait, killing the head of the army will eliminate the entire colony.

These are some of the ways of getting rid of ants.

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