Ants in your kitchen can live off grease and food spills under and behind your appliances.
Shower door grease ants.
Allow it to stay in the drain for at least 10 minutes before flushing it down with hot water.
Pouring half a cup of baking soda with equal amounts of vinegar down the sink can help to clear the plumbing drain of grease and food residue.
That translates to tasty items like the grease that accumulates on your stove hood and around your oven door.
To get rid of ants on the lookout for such foods you ll want to use the right type of bait.
Think about how dirty your shower door usually gets and what style of cleaner would suit you best.
There s an upside to ant proofing your house.
Then add water to the bottle.
Clean under and behind the stove refrigerator microwave toaster dishwasher and around and underneath the sink.
But rather they found their way into your drain instead.
Garbage bins should also be properly disposed and cleaned regularly because the residue will also attract ants.
Thief ants also known as grease ants can be found nesting indoors in tiny crevices.
Type some shower door cleaners come in sprays while others are foaming formulas or creams.
In particular you can use tea tree and peppermint oil to both get rid of ants and add a very pleasant aroma to your bathroom.
While you re at it wipe a little on the shower door glass to leave a clear water repellent film and spray some on the handle to quickly remove smudge marks and make the metal shine.
Use white vinegar and baking soda to clean your toilet bowl shower tile and bathroom sink.
The thief ant which is also called the grease ant is a very common ant in homes especially in kitchens across much of the u s.
Ants don t have a way to travel from the outside into your plumbing system and then out of your shower drain.
Eliminate potential food sources grease ants prefer a high protein diet.
Also if you re sensitive to smells or want to go with an all natural product there are formulas for you too.
Food waste debris hair skin cells fungus mold and mildew are all present in your drain and the ants feed off of this.
To use peppermint and tea tree oil you should add about twenty drops of each into a spray bottle.
It is so tiny as small as 1 32 inch long that it can easily slip into homes through cracks and make its nests in tiny crevices both within the home and outside.
Unlike odorous and carpenter ants thief ants prefer grease and high protein foods as opposed to sugar.