Don’t Let Those Ants Take Over Your Picnic!
Keeping those pesky ants away from your family picnic can be quite a challenge, but a little bit of planning can assure you have an enjoyable day without the annoyance of those ants.
Around the edge of your picnic blanket, you can sprinkle a thin path of talc powder, day to day sink cleaner or boric acid completely surrounding the outer area. If they walk onto the talc, it sticks to them and when they go to their nests, it kills the ants off. Other things you can use from your home to bring along and sprinkle around the area is a combination of simple powdered sugar and baking soda that works well.
Ants do not like the smell of cinnamon and sprinkling this around the grass area before your picnic location will find them running off in an opposite direction. Bay leaves have the same affect; they do not like the odor of the bay. Salt is another item that is non toxic and used to keep the ants away. Sprinkling this around your blanket or area will deter the pests.
Using those handy little ant traps around the corners of your picnic blanket will lure those little creatures right in, keeping them from getting close to your food!
Using some delicious treat such as a donut, a cookie, or something sweet and placing them about 10 to 15 feet away from your location will have the ants moving towards the trap you have set.
All food that you have for your picnic should be contained in separate containers, baggies, or in anything that is airtight so that ants cannot smell the odors of your food. On the outside of your food containers, you can always use some peppermint essential oil because the ants despise the smell of the peppermint. Take the peppermint oil and mix it with water in a spray bottle from home. Spray it or wipe the bottoms of your food containers before you go to your picnic and the ants won’t want to come anywhere near them. You can also try spraying a little of this around your blanket on the outer edges in the grass, your picnic table, or area your sitting. Little crumbs that are left out on your blanket can bring ants in a flash, so when finished with your food, be sure to shake your blanket out at a distant location so the ants find another place to go.
Keeping ants away from your picnic may be a task, but these simple steps above will help you in conquering the battle quite well!
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