Want an easy way to get rid of Ants without harming them? Use cinnamon!
This morning we got to our bird aviary to find one of the quails having just hatched a few hours before. It was covered in ants biting them, so Bernadette quickly got them off his little body. He at least seems fine now!
On closer inspection we found an ant nest on the other side of the aviary. I didn’t want to use poison because the quails seem to eat some of the ants, and I also didn’t want to really kill the ants.
What to do? Google obviously!
It came up with a few good suggestions, but the one that seemed the easiest to implement was cinnamon powder. The rest involved mixing soap powder with vinegar, and other ones that would take too long to implement.
I poured a bit of cinnamon around the nest, and then into the hole leading down to the ant nest.
20 minutes later when I checked, there was not any sign of any ants where they were. I didn’t expect it to work that quickly!
So if you have a problem at home, just try a bit of cinnamon powder wherever you may find them. It’s a lot more nature friendly!
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