How to Control Ants, Flies, Fleas, Ticks, Moths and Mice
If you have an ant problem you can help to keep them away by sprinkling some salt or red pepper across the doorsills of your house to discourages the ant’s from entering. If you have a spot that you can see a path of ants coming from you can just sprinkle some salt in the area that you see the ants and it will help keep the ants away. Ants do not like to walk on salt.
You can keep flies away from surfaces by wiping the surfaces with a vinegar and water solution. So if you wipe off your counter with a vinegar and water solution and the flies will stay off the counter. If you keep some mint in places that you do not want flies the mint will help to repel the flies too.
Does your dog have problems with fleas? You can help to keep the fleas off your dog by putting a drop of lemon oil on your dogs collar. The lemon oil helps to repel fleas and gives your dog a nice lemon scent at the same time. If you don’t have any lemon oil you can try some rosemary oil. Fleas don’t like rosemary oil either.
To help keep ticks off of your dog you can try to put a teaspoon of vinegar for each quart of water in your dog’s drinking water. The vinegar helps keep you dog free from ticks.
Moths can be a problem is certain areas. If you want to keep moths out of your closet just put some cedar in your closet. Moths do not like the smell of cedar and they won’t go in your closet. Cedar is a pleasant smell to humans yet moths do not like it. You can get cedar in hardware stores and department stores.
Mice can be a problem in campers over the winter. You can put moth balls in the camper or any area, people are not, that you do not want mice. Mice do not like moth balls. Neither do moths so moth balls are a good way to keep moths away as well. Keep moth balls away from people as moth balls are not good for people.
