This time of year we like to be outside camping, picnicking, or just eating outside on our deck. Ants tend to be a problem. To keep them off your camping table or picnic table, clean out four tuna or cat food cans. Next fill the cans about 1/2 full with water and put them under the table legs. The water in the cans will keep the ants from climbing up the table legs to get on the table. Now you can enjoy eating outdoors and not being bothered my pesky ants!
By dwedenoja from New Creek, WV
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(Archived Aug 09, 2010)Keeping Ants Off Your Picnic Table
First make sure not one single blade of grass touches the legs of your picnic table, or a small low to the ground dog/cat food table. I have place old carpet under the dog food table. Then place each leg into a coffee can, put oil some the can (any oil should work).
The ants have to walk up the outside, then down the inside of the can, but can't swim through the oil.
By Cat Webber
To keep ants away from your plate on a picnic draw a circle around your plate with chalk. For some reason ants will not cross it.
By Carol Clinton
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