7 UNSPOKEN Genius Ways to Get Rid of ANTS!

The first thing I ask you to do in this one is the hardest thing in it, and it costs you nothing. Stand at your counter, watch one ant walk across it, and let her go. I know how that sounds in a house you paid for. But she is the only part of your problem you can see, and the only part that will ever carry a message home for you. Researchers measured what she does while you are deciding whether to kill her. She makes about fourteen trips between your food and her nest, and every time she walks in that door she hands over roughly half of what is in her stomach, mouth to mouth. Most of that colony never goes outside at all and eats entirely this way. The whole spread is over in under an hour. The University of Kentucky puts the instruction in capital letters, and I have never seen an extension service shout before. Once bait is down and you see more ants around it, do not spray them. That increase is the sign it is working. Seven things in this film, and the first three cost an index card. Number two is the one question that decides everything else, because a repellent spray does two completely different things depending on which ant you have. A study from 2005 found that the ordinary kind in the eight dollar can made a pharaoh ant colony split up and start new colonies elsewhere in the building. The non-repellent products in the same study did not. It is not the poison that splits them. It is that they can taste it coming and run. Number three is an index card with honey on one end and oil on the other, straight out of the Texas A&M school playbook, and it corrects something I had backwards myself about sweet and greasy. Number five is where I tell you to make it weaker, not stronger, and show you the study that explains why doubling it is exactly what breaks it. Two thirds of the way through I own the week I ruined my own kitchen doing precisely that. And number seven is six inches of ground outside your house, and a reason carpenter ants are not really an ant problem at all. I was never an entomologist. What I had was one building, one cafeteria and forty springs of the same doors, until I quit guessing. #HomeMaintenance #Ants #pestcontrol