Top 12 Natural Ways to Deal with Ant Infestations

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7. Dish soap and boiling water

Mix a bottle with a couple squirts of dish washing soap and hot water. Believe it or not, this kills ants fairly well. Perhaps one of the best ways to kill ants is to boil a large pot of water, add a few squirts of dishwashing soap, then pour the contents down the ant hill and around the pathways ants have made leaving the nest. This not only kills ants instantly, but any ants that should escape are not able to use the paths left behind and must form new paths, hopefully away from your house.

 

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8. Coffee grounds

Although we might like coffee, ants don’t. Take those used coffee grounds and place them around the bottom of doorways or cracks where ants might enter your house. Hopefully they will decide to go to a juice bar, and not your “coffee shop”.

 

9. Powdered sugar and baking soda

Mix up equal parts of baking soda and powdered sugar (not granulated sugar) and place this mixture in small containers, such as jar lids, to help kill ants. Ants eat baking soda, along with the sugar, and later die as the baking soda bubbles inside them.

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