The season of sugar ants has arrived. They march across your counter tops in a line looking for anything you have left behind. They are harmless but annoying! With children in the house the last thing any mother wants to put out is poison. Last night the trail of ants coming out of my wall outlet and across my kitchen sink hit an all time high. Something had to be done. I went online and found recommendations to layout out powdered cinnamon and cloves in the path of the ants. My ant path was coming out of my wall and moving horizontally across the wall above my counters, so laying dry powder was going to be difficult. I had to get creative.
I took powdered cinnamon and clove powder and mixed it with enough water to make a paste. Then, using a paint brush I brushed the paste around the outlet they were coming in and out of with in seconds the ants were flipping out in full panic. My husband flushed the remaining ants down the sink. With in three hours there was not an ant to be found with the exception of a few in the sink that survived the flush. This morning our kitchen was ant free! Who knew that cinnamon and clove could be so effective! My kitchen also smells great with cinnamon and clove smeared on my wall. This is a cheap, non-toxic, and effective solution to kept ants from your home!
