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Getting easily attracted towards sweets and sweetened items, army of ants often becomes a cause of biggest problem at home, forcing the house owner to learn how to get rid of ants easily and effectively.

If ants have emerged in your kitchen and entire house, it is because of none other except you. You invite them involuntarily to become your unwanted guests by placing sweets and variety of edible items which the ants prefer the most to feast upon.

Smelling sweets, the army of ants seize upon its target, thus posing a great challenge to all the family members. Though by disturbing the ants you easily can force them to run helter-skelter, such of your attempt will fail as they return back to their previous position again, once you leave the place.

They get collected again without letting the house inmates guess of theirs re-emergence. If you have got fed up of ants emergence and seek to get rid them as soon as possible, go through the tips being pointed out over here for you.

• Use ant bait and boric acid as the most effective ant repellent. You can avail of it easily from your local drugstore.
• Sprinkle boric acid in your kitchen. Though it doesn’t kill ants, it makes them flee from the area.
• Keep all the cooked food items in your refrigerator.
• Scatter chili pepper, paprika or dried peppermint over all the places affected by ants. Such substances spoil the trail used by ants.
• Remove all the foods kept in open that are most likely to attract the ants and invite them to feast upon them.
• Make sure that all the utensils used in preparing sweet edible items like tea, coffee or any other product are well washed with water. Cups, plates and kettles used, also should be washed immediately after finishing the consumable items.
• Keep sugar in a tightly closed container.
• Do not keep in open cakes, chocolates, pastries and even juicy fruits. Within a few minutes you may find the ants occupying whole the disposition of respective product, thus posing a great challenge to you.
• Clean entire kitchen with water, obliterating even the smell of sweet products thereof.
• Ruin trail used by ants- Trail stimulates the army of ants to explore previous sources of foods and thus re-emerge again inside the kitchen or any other part of your house. You can prevent ants to re-emergence again by wiping out ant trail with pesticide or baby powder. By destroying their trail you successfully will confuse the ants and shortly get rid of ants emergence easily.
• Cider vinegar is another powerful ant repellent to be used for ants. Mix cider vinegar in water and spray it over the ants. It will force the ants to flee from the area. Even a minor smell of vinegar is capable enough to help you get rid of ants.
• If you find a rendezvous of ants where the ants are not fleeing from, sprinkle cinnamon and bay leaves over the area. Being effective ant-repellent, such spices make all the obstinate ants flee from the area much faster.
• Another effective way to get rid of ants is diatomaceous earth which you can arrange from local drug store. Meant specially for the insects, the diatomaceous earth is made of diatoms and exterminates the ants efficiently.
• Lastly, another most effective way to get rid of ants is the mixture of windex and Ivory liquid soap. Being too effective, it causes a hazardous effect on health of human beings. So, be careful when using such preparation with a sole purpose to get rid of ants.