8 Natural and Easy Ways to Repel Ants, Can Use Coffee - Eggshells

Kapanlagi.com - The presence of insects often disturbs comfort. In addition, the presence of insects can also damage furniture. One of the insects that often disturbs is ants. Ants often come and invade food. As a result, if the food is already swarmed by ants, it can no longer be enjoyed. That's why it's important to know how to repel ants.

In addition to damaging food, ant bites are also equally disturbing. Just like mosquito bites, ant bites can cause itching. Therefore, to avoid various disturbances from these small animals, it's good for you to know various ways to repel ants.

Here are several natural and easy ways to repel ants that you can try, summarized from various sources.

1. Coffee

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Coffee may be one of the natural ingredients commonly used to repel ants. Coffee has a distinctive smell and bitter taste that ants do not like. To use it, you just need to sprinkle coffee powder in places where ants usually come.

In addition, you can also use coffee grounds that have been used. So not only easy and practical, this method is also considered economical, right?

2. Salt

Often used to repel animals like leeches and snakes, it turns out that salt can also be used to repel ants. There are two ways you can do to repel ants with salt.

First, you can sprinkle it directly in places where ants usually come. Second, you can dissolve salt in warm water, then spray this saltwater in places where there are many ants.

3. Clove

As we know, cloves have a distinctive fragrant aroma. This aroma is what makes clove oil often used as a mosquito repellent lotion. Well, besides mosquitoes, it turns out that the sweet scent of cloves is also disliked by ants. That means you can use cloves to repel ants in the house.

Amazingly, repelling ants with cloves can not only be done in the form of clove oil. You also don't need to bother grinding cloves until smooth. Because, you can repel cloves simply by placing several cloves around the area that ants usually visit.

4. Vinegar Water

Another natural and easy way to repel ants is by using a mixture of water and vinegar. Perhaps not many people know that a mixture of water and vinegar can be used as an alternative insecticide. To make vinegar water insecticide, the method is very easy, just mix water and vinegar in a ratio of 1:1.

After making the vinegar insecticide, you just need to spray the vinegar water solution on ant nests or areas that are commonly invaded by ants. This mixture of water and vinegar is believed to be effective in repelling and killing ants.

5. Lemon or Orange

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Just like a mixture of water and vinegar, the juice of lemon or orange, which has a sour taste, can also be used as a natural insecticide. The method is the same, which is by turning it into a spray with a ratio of 1:1. Then, it is sprayed in various places that ants usually visit.

In addition, lemon or orange can also be used to repel ants by placing pieces of their peel. Because the fresh aroma from the fruit peel, which is rich in vitamin C, is also disliked by ants.

6. Bird's Eye Chili or Pepper

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In addition to the sour taste, ants also cannot stand the spicy taste. So, the next ingredient that can be used to repel ants is bird's eye chili or pepper.

To repel ants, it is better to use these two ingredients in powder form. Therefore, you can grind the chili or pepper and dry them. If not, you can directly buy chili or pepper powder, which will certainly be more practical. You can repel ants by sprinkling chili and pepper powder around their nest or near the food that ants are targeting.

7. Eggshell

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Although often considered as trash, eggshells still have many benefits. One of them is to repel ants. To repel ants, the eggshells must be roasted until they turn dark. Once the color has changed, grind the eggshells until smooth, then sprinkle them in areas commonly visited by ants.  

8. Cornstarch

Who would have thought that cornstarch can also be used as an ant repellent? Cornstarch, made from corn, has a sweet taste and aroma for ant colonies. However, behind the sweet taste, the content in cornstarch is believed to be able to kill ants.

Therefore, repelling ants with cornstarch is very easy. Simply sprinkle cornstarch around the nest or places commonly visited by ants.

Those are 8 natural and easy ways to repel ants. The ingredients and methods are so simple that you can try them at home.

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