Life Hack: How to keep ants away from your home and garden

Spot some unwelcome visitors? Here's how to rid yourself of ants this summer

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Summer is here and with it the return of longer evenings, sunnier days and, for many, unwelcome ant visitors. Ants excrete chemicals to lead the rest of their colony to a food source, so if you spot one little soldier in your kitchen you should expect its friends and family to turn up too.

If you want to keep ants away from your home and garden, surround the area with scents they hate. Many kitchen staples will do this, saving you from splurging on sprays. Cinnamon is one such scent: sprinkle it along doorframes, windows and anywhere you think ants could enter your home to keep them away.