How do you prevent ants from coming into your house?

Answer 1

Put up a signboard - NO ANTS ALLOWED. Hire an anteacher to teach english to the ants !

Answer 2

Clean your house. Put away food in fridge or containers. Feed your pet at designated times, and what the pet does not eat in 15 minutes, put away or throw out., keep water out always for pets. Keep the inside clean. This is a great way to divert sweet ants, the little ones look for sweets. If they are large ants, then you have a structural problem, those are carpenter ants, and you will need the help of a trained professional exterminator. Carpenter ants are just as destructive as termites! On a lower level of pest control, ant traps work wonders, but don't kill the ants! They go in the trap to get 'food' that is laced with poison and feed it to memebers of their colony. Soon the colony gets sick and will swarm away to a new location. They also have traps like that for your lawn too.

Answer 3

Stop feeding them!

Seriously- I keep telling my parents this but they don't listen. Keep your food sealed and make sure you wipe down food preparation areas and clean used plates, bowls, cups, etc before any ants can get to them. Just basically be clean... or the ants will start doing the cleaning for you- and then some!

Use Ant-Rid to eliminate the ones that are already in there.

Answer 4

Apparently ants hate cucumber peelings! We had a major ant prob,had tried all kinds of diff remedies and figured one more cant hurt lol... We placed cucumber peelings along the back of our flowerbeds and along the outside of our house and havent seen an ant in the house since and very very few in our yard.Mind u,i over heard the neighbours complaining about a sudden ant prob. lol O.o

Answer 5

Easy those are carpenter ants/wood ants (we have them in the summer as well, we have to spray 2 times a month around the outside of our house and inside! good luck

Answer 6

Find the source wherefrom the ants penetrate. Cut a piece of onion or garlic. Smash and place it over the hole. Ants /termites dare not enter further. Repeat the same wherever they erupt. Garlic and onion are the natural, harmless even to the infants, easily available vegetable. Dont put it into your eyes Use it and see for yourself.

Answer 7

Spread some ground cinnamon where you think the ants are coming in to the house.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Put some turmeric powder at the place where ants comes in ur house Ants can't stand turmeric powder & will leave the place immediately.

Answer 10

Ant poison on the outside of your house. Look for the stuff you spray it on the base of your house and on all your trees.

Answer 11

mix 1 tbsp borax with 1/4 cup of confectioner's sugar, then sprinkle it in the traffic areas. the ants will carry it back to the nest and it will kill the queen, thereby eradicating the nest. make sure no children or pets can get near it!