How can I keep ants away from my fermenting Kombucha Tea?
Yeast, boraxo, powdered sugar-William L. a subscriber to the Kombucha list says, ” he heard that equal parts of active dry yeast, boraxo, and powdered sugar works good on ants. One thing they do is carry food to the queen, and if you kill the queen, they move on–or something.” Masking Tape-Also, if you see a trail of ants, and pick some up with masking tape, they will stop using that trail, because they don’t like to go where their friends have been mysteriously disappearing! A Mote-One man builds a “mote” around his fermenting jars by setting his jars into a pan with a few inches of water surrounding them. The ants don’t like to get into the water, so they can’t get to his fermenting Kombucha. Other Natural Remedies-A lady in Georgia puts cucumber peels down to deter sugar ants. Bay leaves and Pennyroyal work well too.
