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Ant Control
• Reducing clutter around the outside of your home is a must do. Those old tires laying around, that wheelbarrow that you’ve been meaning to turn over and put back in the garage, and those leaves you never got to from the Fall, are all great places for ants to use as cover as they build up their colonies and prepare to look for vittles in your house.
• Sanitation is another big one. Make sure that the kitchen is cleaned up after cooking. Enlist the kids to help if necessary, regardless how much they kick against it. It’s a team effort here and every member of the house must be conscientious about cleaning up. Every little drip of bacon grease, birthday cake crumb, every dog food kernel, and watermelon rind is a feast for the Worker ants who will immediately tell their friends about the treasure they just found. Before you know it, you’ll have thousands of ants sharing the table with you.