Do It Yourself Ant repellants
Retail ant repellents and killers are normally considered pesticides, and it’s hard to really know if all those chemicals are safe, in any quantity. Before your ant issues get way out of control, and I mean hundreds of ants swarming your house – you may be able to rectify the insect problem with “do it yourself” DIY materials. To begin with, use vinegar and peppermint, tea tree and lemon oils to help deter ants – in a more down to earth way. Scattering cayenne pepper or cinnamon along baseboards or cracks and crevices will discourage ants from coming inside in the first place. In my travels while performing pest control, I’ve seen people also use lemon juice, coffee grounds, baby powder, orange peels, Borax (with water and sugar), chalk, diatomaceous earth, cream of wheat, cornmeal, powdered sugar and Equal. Most of these will give you a temporary reduction in foraging ants but you need to be diligent with DIY solutions as they need to be reapplied often. Unfortunately, most of these solutions can become slightly and smelly. Of course, what you are doing will not kill off the ant colony, as they are likely to come back sooner than later. In some (most) cases you may be actually making the whole situation even worse. By applying the wrong DIY solutions you may actually causing a single ant colony to split into many colonies as some species of ants has several queens that are happy to build their own nest. The bottom line is if you are not seeing results from your do it yourself methods; it’s time to call in a professional. Here at go green pest control.ca, we will be happy to stamp out your ant problems.
go green pest control.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.c. Randy L Bilesky BsF CPA
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