Ants are very common pests that can often make you feel uncomfortable. However, if you use ant-killing products frequently, it may harm you. Below are some natural ways to help you repel ants and prevent them from returning effectively.

Since ants cannot tolerate the smell of lemon, you can use a few small lemons to drive ants out of your house with some simple methods below.

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• First, determine where ants usually crawl to inside your house, or areas like doorways, windowsills, or cracks where ants often enter from outside. Then, apply or spray lemon juice on these areas. The ants will die and quickly leave. After the lemon juice dries, you can use a cloth or broom to clean the area.

Spray lemon juice on places where ants tend to enter.

• When cleaning your house, you can mix the juice of 4 lemons (blend the whole peel) with 2 liters of water to clean the floor. Ants, fleas, and bedbugs will “flee” from your house.

• Similarly to method 1, if you want to use lemon water, you can use lemon peels that have been squeezed, cut them into small pieces, and sprinkle them along the paths where ants crawl. When the lemon peel dries, it’s easy to sweep it away with a broom.

Using lemon peels that have been squeezed, cut into small pieces, and sprinkle them on the ants' trails is also very effective.

When it rains and the air becomes moist, ants are more likely to invade your home. Here are a few simple ways to deal with the ant infestation using natural materials commonly available at home, such as salt, vinegar, baking soda, and powder... Try the following methods:

Chalk

Ants cannot cross a chalk line. This may sound unbelievable, but it’s true. The substances in the chalk break down the pheromones of ants— the scent markers ants use to communicate with others in their "territory."

You can draw a chalk line or sprinkle a line of chalk powder around areas where ants tend to invade or near places where they gather food (for example, food cabinets, trash cans, etc.) to stop the ants from reaching their target.

Vinegar

Vinegar is one of the most popular natural solutions to repel ants. Similar to chalk, the strong scent of vinegar damages the ants' sense of smell and disrupts their pheromone trails.

You can try spraying a mixture of diluted vinegar onto a group of moving ants. Once separated from their scent trails, the ants will almost immediately become disoriented and start to scatter in different directions without a clear destination.

To repel ants, you should spray the diluted vinegar mixture around doorways, windows, or any area where ants commonly appear. Of course, the mixture will evaporate over time, so it should be reapplied daily to maintain effectiveness.

Black Pepper

Sprinkle a little black pepper on the ants' path and you’ll quickly see them scatter. Now you can track the ants and find their nest. Sprinkle more black pepper on the nest area to break up the colony.