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Repel Ants With These Common Scents

Abby Parks By Abby Parks
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While they don’t have noses, ants can detect scent through sensitive chemoreceptors on their antennae. That explains how they can know that crumbs are on your kitchen floor for them to forage. You can trick ants into thinking that your home is dangerous or offensive by using certain smells to repel them. Learn what to use in this informative video!

Abby Parks

About the Author

Abby Parks

Abby Parks has authored a fiction novel, theatrical plays, short stories, poems, and song lyrics. She's recorded two albums of her original songs, and is a multi-instrumentalist. She has managed a website for folk music and written articles on singer-songwriters, folk bands, and other things music-oriented. She's also a radio DJ for a folk music show. As well as having been a pet parent to rabbits, birds, dogs, and cats, Abby loves seeking sightings of animals in the wild and has witnessed some more exotic ones such as Puffins in the Farne Islands, Southern Pudu on the island of Chiloe (Chile), Penguins in the wild, and countless wild animals in the Rocky Mountains (Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, Moose, Elk, Marmots, Beavers).
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