- As a last resort, make a borax solution to pour into ant hills: For each cup of boiling water add 1/2c of sugar, let cool and add 1 tbsp of borax. Pour onto ant colony. If it’s applied repeatedly or too strong of a concentration, you will end up with an area where you can’t grow anything until the borax leaches out of the soil. This may take years so USE IT SPARINGLY.
- Alternatively, mix 2 tsp borax in a 1/2L of apple jelly and drop the mixture around the mound. The ants will carry it back to the queen to kill her. Be sure to keep children and pets away from the sweet borax solution to prevent accidental ingestion!
I hope that the above tips will equip you in getting rid of ants’ population inside and outside of your house and prevent their armies from destroying the peace of your home.
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