Ants become pesty when they invade your home or yard looking for food.
Borax is a natural product used for a variety of purposes, including the extermination of ants and other insects. If you want to avoid insecticides, you can make your own ant poison using borax and a few other supplies from home. Borax mixed with foods entices ants to come dine on your poisonous bait and bring some of the bait back to the nest to share. Over the course of a few weeks, you can effectively kill an entire ant colony with homemade borax ant poison. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Attract many types of ants with a peanut butter and jelly combination.
Stir together a half-cup of apple jelly and a quarter-cup peanut. The combination of sweet jelly and oily peanut butter will attract sweet-, protein- and grease-loving ants.
2. Place a spoonful of the peanut butter and jelly mixture in each empty yogurt container. Put the lids on the containers and poke small holes in the lids so ants can get in and out but children and pets can't.
3. Set the yogurt containers in areas, indoors and outdoors, where ants have been spotted to see if your bait attracts them.
4. Allow the borax-free ant bait to sit for a few days so the ants that are infesting your home or yard have a chance to find the new food sources.
5. Make a new peanut butter and jelly mixture, this time adding 1 tbsp. borax to the mixture. Stir the combination well to blend the borax with the other two ingredients. Place a spoonful of the borax bait in the yogurt containers and set the containers wherever the borax-free containers attracted ants.
6. Replace the borax ant bait with a fresh mixture every couple of days until you see no more ants. The ants will feed off of the bait and also bring some back to share with the rest of the population in the nest.
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