How to Humanely Keep Ants Out of Your Home

By GardenGuru

Keep them out of your home, without taking their life from them. Keep them out of your home, without taking their life from them.

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Ants are inevitable it seems, or are they? Here is a method to keep them from you house, and not spend a small fortune trying to combat them.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Cleaned out empty aluminum can
  • Granulated Sugar

Step1
Take sugar and fill can 1/3 of the way full.
Step2
Take partially filled can out to near where the ants seem to be coming from outside.
Step3
Place can so that water will not enter from the top, and so that can is hidden.
Step4
Refill, and replace the can as needed.

Tips & Warnings

  • Ants are a healthy part of the garden. Cultivate the outdoors, and they will stop having a reason to enter.

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