Borax, or sodium tetraborate, is a powdery white substance used as a cleaning product, emulsifier, or insect repellant. To make a natural DIY ant killer, follow these steps:
- Put on safety gloves and make a solution of 1/2 teaspoon borax, 8 tsp sugar, and 1 cup warm water. Stir until the sugar and borax are dissolved.
- Use citrus fruits like lemons, limes, and oranges as natural ant repellents. These fruits are toxic to certain types of fungi that ants love to feed on. By placing citrus fruits around the stems of indoor and outdoor plants and flowers, you can kill new ants, sugar ants, black ants, fire ants, carpenter ants, and pepper moran.
- Mix equal parts of borax, sugar, and baking soda or baking powder in a tea spoon and place it in areas where they travel at.
- Seal entry points by sealing entry points with a tea spoon and keeping things clean.\n5
Natural solutions such as baking soda, cinnamon, lemon, and vinegar will only get you so far in solving your ant problem and may not eliminate an entire infestation. Some homemade methods involve pantry items you already have around the house, like coffee grounds or cayenne pepper, while some pull out more targeted products.
In summary, home remedies like borax, white vinegar, citrus fruits, and vinegar can help get rid of ants in your home. However, it’s important to consult pest experts before starting any DIY ant treatments.
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6/17/24: I also use the powdered sugar and baking soda method, but for an extra-added keep-these-ants-away-from-my-home concoction, I use Borax or Boric Acid with the sugar and soda, whichever of the two I have on hand. If you don’t have Borax or Boric Acid, it’s cool, it’ll still work. Nevertheless, I make a large batch of equal parts (for me, 2 cups of each) of the three in a designated bowl and then I mix well and distribute two tablespoons in some inexpensive cupcake papers I get from the Dollar Tree store and place them around my home everywhere, especially in my kitchen and in corners of my bathrooms, living room, just everywhere! If you have any cracks around your home, pour some into it as well. The ants will carry it back to their colony and explode! Sounds terrible, but I gotta do what I gotta do to free my home of them little critters. If I have some left over, I spoon it into a Mason jar, covered and mark it “For Ants” and the date. I’ve been doing this since 2022 and every time Summer comes around, the ants get busy and SO DO I ’cause this stuff WORKS! Thank you, AT, for posting your article. I’m sure it’ll help many who visit your website. 😊
Argh… after a month of doing this over and over and seeing no results I decided to rewatch the article a couple of times over and over to see if I missed anything and on the 19th time it hit me. I paused the article and zoomed in. I wasn’t using a jar lid to mix the ingredients together. Once I found the right mason jar lid, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Ant after ant falling over and dying. Thank you
For those who have ants that ignore it, make sure its equal parts so they’ll come to check it out without being turned off and sprinkle it. I did it yesterday and tonight there were lots over it, be patient, will update in a few days to say if the appearances have decreased(im testing different locations in my house)
This does not work. I tried this yesterday and left it all until noon the next day and they just stayed away from it. Borax and sugar dissolved in water and soak it up with cotton balls. Works best. Place the cotton balls someplace your pets can get them leftover cotton balls out in baggie and use later.