This common staple found in most fridges can be used to force ants to leave your home easily, but without killing them, making it a ‘powerful’ and humane ant deterrent
If you need ants out of your home ASAP, but don’t want to kill them, this method is perfect for you.
The summer months are quickly approaching and that means a few things, everyone will be heading outdoors to relax and enjoy the sunshine in a beer garden, or backyard barbeque. But alongside these positives, the warmer temperatures also mean one thing most of us would be keen to avoid: insects appearing everywhere.
When it comes to a bug infestation, there are few more off-putting than ants appearing in your kitchen, and the clever insects also have a way of communicating with one another, secreting pheromones that mean where one ant goes, more will likely follow. If you are desperate to get rid of an ant problem in your home, but really don’t want to kill the insects to do so, this life hack is the way to go, and it requires only one inexpensive fridge staple.
As reported in The Express, you can use the humble lemon to force an ant colony to leave your home, and this “powerful deterrent” is also a humane one. The ants will not appreciate this hack as much as you will, but they will go on their merry way injured, and able to set up shop elsewhere.
Expert Jordan Foster of Fantastic Pest Control explained that all you need for this one is a few lemons, and possibly some water if your infestation is seriously stubborn. First things first, you need to identify the places where ants are getting into your home, and once you have spotted the ant’s entrances grab your lemon and simply squeeze the juice of the entire fruit across the entrance.
Then take the peel from your juiced lemon and leave it around the entrance, make sure to replace these with fresh ones on a daily basis, and soon enough, there should be no ants left in your home. If they are stubbornly sticking around, then dilute four lemons worth of juice into one litre of water and spray it all around the entrances they are using.
The way this works is that “Ants and other insects hate the smell of citrus and will go to great lengths to avoid it. The acidic nature of lemon juice also destroys scent trails,” the expert explains, adding that it won’t kill them but it will “force the colony to relocate”.
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