Tag: Ants
Brain Teaser Of The Day: Ant Words
| The following are clues that describe words containing an “ant”. The clues do not refer to the words themselves, rather they refer to the word that must be added to the “ant”. For example, “an ant that is waiting for something to happen” would be “expectant” (expect ant). The ant may appear at the beginning or the end of the word. Where it appears is given in the hint should you need it.
1. This ant will rely on you. |
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Ants Working In Harmony
This is incredible!
Ants working in harmony create a daisy chain to pull dinner home.
“It’s always incredible to see ants work as a team by stringing their bodies together like a rope to pull something much heavier back home. It looks a lot like what us humans would do when we’re trying to move something big. Ants, they’re just like us!”- Paul M
Watch as ants create a daisy chain, maximizing their pulling force to drag off dinner.
How To Of The Day: How To Kill Ants With Coffee
Ants are contributing members of the environment, helping to clean up garbage, rotting food and carcusses. But when ants invade your yard or home in search of food sources, they become less helpful and become more of a pest. Many commercial methods and products are available to kill ants, but these methods contain chemicals that are harmful to you, your family and the environment. Home remedies, such as using coffee and coffee grounds, to kill ants are effective and safer for you and the environment.
Instructions
1 Coffee grounds kill and repel ants.
Observe where ants are entering your home. Make a boundary near the ant entryways with dry coffee grounds. When ants eat this, the grounds expand in their stomachs and kill them.2 Spread used coffee grounds around pet food bowls and other areas where you wish to repel ants. Ants are repulsed by the strong smell the brewed coffee grounds put out. Spritz brewed grounds that are outside with water to keep them fresh and replace brewed coffee grounds in the house every day.
3 Kill ants with boiling hot coffee.
Boil fresh or leftover brewed coffee in a pot. Pour the boiling coffee down ant nests to kill the ants on contact. Boiling liquids kill ants at the source, which is very helpful to exterminating the entire colony.
Common Items For Getting Rid Of Ants
Common items for getting rid of ants for good.
When it’s ant season (often in the spring), these sneaky critters can march into your home and never leave. But with these simple tricks that use common household items like tape, vinegar, lemons, chalk, water, and more, you can protect your kitchen, doors, windows, patio and anywhere else ants like to crawl. You might need to try various solutions to get rid of ants throughout the house, but hopefully one of these tricks will work for you.
Adhesive Tape
Is an army of ants marching toward the cookie jar on your countertop or some sweet prize in your pantry? Create a “moat” around the object by surrounding it with adhesive tape placed sticky side up.
You don’t need insecticides or ant traps to ant-proof your kitchen. Just give it the lemon treatment. First squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills. Then squeeze lemon juice into any holes or cracks where the ants are getting in. Finally, scatter small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor entrance. The ants will get the message that they aren’t welcome. Lemons are also effective against roaches and fleas: Simply mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 1/2 gallon (2 liters) water and wash your floors with it; then watch the fleas and roaches flee. They hate the smell.
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