How to Keep Ants Out of Your Home – Naturally and Humanely

31st October 2014

By Dr. Michelle Kmiec

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Okay, I admit it! County girl I am not! Oh, but I do love to try!

Moving from Colorado to Vermont has been an adventure for me to say the least. I learned first-hand that ants travel far and wide from their custom made hills for food, including inside your home. I also learned, the hard way, that hard-dried honey on the side of the honey bottle inside the kitchen cabinet is free food for every ant including their friend’s family, and believe me… that’s A LOT of ants!

Even deep cleaning the kitchen, and everywhere else in my house, was not quite the ant deterrent I had hoped. They already knew food was somewhere in this house and they were determined to find it. It was war! Me against the army of every size ant ever seen on National Geographic!

As the founder of Online Holistic Health I have strong beliefs in all things natural, holistic, and pure. Furthermore I have cats that have to be everywhere all the time — especially exactly where you don’t want them to be. I have to keep them safe! So what is a newly anointed country girl to do?

Frustrated I grabbed the only thing in my reach that I could use to spray them down. My natural orange air freshener – for when I am tired of long Vermont winters and want “to pretend that I really live in Florida feel!”

And guess what?! It worked! Not only that, I sprayed the border where I thought may be the ants’ port-of-entry, and they didn’t cross the orange aroma. Victory!

As it turns out, ants are repelled by citrus.

So that was last spring and summer. What about this year so far?

This year I began my defense early. Armed with the scent of freshly squeezed oranges, those ants didn’t stand a chance! Occasionally I see the silhouette of an ant scout peering through the window, but I think they have gotten the message.

Previous articles by Dr. Michelle:

• Macadamia Oil for Healthy Skin and Body
• Studies Prove Sweet Potatoes Heal Stomach Ulcers
• The Truth About Insomnia, Depression and Anxiety
• Are There Natural Cures for ALS?
• The Arrogance of Modern Medicine
• Natural Cure for Depression Silenced?
• The Link Between Stress and Intestinal Parasites – and What to Do About Them
• Arthritis Cure Found in Nature
• The Sun & Skin Cancer: Examining the Truths, Pseudo-Truths & Lies of Mainstream Science
• “Blame It On Your Genes”: the Money-Making Myth of Modern Medicine
• A Natural Cure for Migraines
• Natural Cure for Chronic Pain Syndromes Silenced by the Medical Establishment

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