When ants get out of control, you, your yard and your home suffer.
Ants are helpful to the environment, including your yard and garden, as they eat decaying plants and animals and clean up spills and crumbs. As long as ant populations don't get out of hand or begin to infest your home, you will barely have an awareness that ants are present around you. When ants increase in population and start searching inside your home for their next food source, it's time to rid yourself of them. Homemade ant baits are simple to make as well as inexpensive and are very effective at controlling ants in and around your home. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Mix 1 tbsp. peanut butter with 1 tsp. brown or white sugar and 1/2 tsp. boric acid to make a protein-based homemade ant bait. Place the ingredients in a bowl, and stir well with a plastic spoon.
2. Scoop a spoonful of homemade peanut butter ant bait into a milk jug cap and place, indoors, outdoors or wherever ants have been spotted. Set your ant baits in several locations for faster extermination.
3. Ants are attracted to the sugar in jelly.
Alternate between protein-based ant bait and sugar-based ant bait every three days. Adult ants will switch between the two types of food sources to help the young ants in the nest grow. Mix 4 tbsp. of any flavored jelly with 1/2 tsp. boric acid to make your homemade sugar-based ant bait.
4. Place a scoop of your homemade sugar-based ant bait in a small paper cup. Lay the cup, on its side, in ant-infested locations.
5. Throw away your homemade ant bait containers every three days when you change them. Continue to place homemade ant bait out for up to six weeks, until you notice that ants are no longer coming to your ant bait.
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