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Ants are tiny escape artists. A crack under your front door is like a VIP entrance to Club Kitchen. Walk around your house and look for tiny gaps—around windows, door frames, and pipe holes.
Grab some silicone caulk or petroleum jelly and fill those gaps. It’s basically giving your house a full face of makeup to repel tiny intruders. Do not use poison sprays near food—you don’t want to cook breakfast around a chemical cloud that smells like a chemistry lab.
How to Get Rid of Ants in Kitchen Fast
If you find an ant highway, don’t squash the lead scout. The dead ant releases a panic scent, and suddenly you’ll have a hundred tearful ant relatives coming to the funeral. Instead, spray soapy water—it sticks to their legs and suffocates them. It’s messy, but so is life.
