Get Rid of Ants in the Kitchen
This simple recipe using sugar, Borax and water will get rid of ants in the kitchen. Ants are cannibals. One ant will eat the mixture and die. Another will eat the dead ant and die. Eventually,you’ll get the whole nest.
Ingredients
1 cup of confectioners’ sugar
1 cup of Borax
Water
Instructions
Mix sugar with Borax and add enough water to make a syrup.
Put this mixture in flat pans or jar lids and place them under counters and behind appliances, but out of reach of children and pets.
So long, ants!
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Is the borax mentioned the same as boraxo for cleaning hands?
Hi Cindy,
Borax is one of the ingredients of Boraxo, but they are not the same.
I have used 5 lbs. of granulated sugar and a 5 lb. box of borax laundry detergent and placed around house and on ant hills in the yard and it works.
I have been doing this for years and it works….only, I have always used it as a dry mixture. Was recomended to me by a contractor who cleaned out a house in the inner city of roaches.