How to Keep Ants Away From Your Food
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How to Keep Ants Away From Your Food
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you might live in a primitive cabin (like me), or be outdoors etc: here is how you prevent ants from building a super-highway to your food. its fast, simple, free:
The Wonder-weapon:
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a plastic bottle. just pull it out of the trash, or, better yet, pick it up as litter.
.... Snip Snip Snip ....
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cut off the top-part (use scissors, knife, teeth..)
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have a piece of wire handy (although you can also use a piece of smooth wood, see more below)
Insert
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the wire (etc) gently for some (under-cut*) hole in the bottle cap
* here done with a needle, or any other sharp-pointed object... undercut, because you want a ´natural seal´ to occur
Support
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not necessarily needed, but helpful to keep the gadget upright: use a second cap (or even a disk you can cut out of plastic, etc) pushed over the wire and down into the neck of the bottle - see photo below
Hook It, Load It
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form some simple hooks on the ends of the wire (obviously cut to any size you need).
turn the gadget upright, fill it partly with water (soit will create a barrier between the wire and the bottle-top the ants cannot cross)
hang it, wherever needed (f.e. a branch, or string, etc)
the hook below takes the ´load´ (a bag with food etc)
p s,
see note above: if you dont have wire use a piece of round smooth wood > not the ends so you can attach strings
Done
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.... sorry ants.... next time.... somewhere else....
over&out
ps, work less, play more