Those pesky little bugs that continue to work night and day, building a nest in the form of a hill in our lawns and under side walks.

How do we get rid of them? Believe it or not the simplest of household chemicals you use every day. Dish soap.

Ants breathe through their outer body. An ant having dish soap coving its breathing holes is like putting a plastic bag over someone’s head. It suffocates them.

By adding a liberal amount of dish soap in a large pitcher and thoroughly mixing with warm water, there will be enough soap within the mixture to do the trick. Begin pouring the soapy mixture in a circle beginning at the outside edge of the ant hill and work your way to the center. You may have to repeat this process a couple of times.

Any of those little critters that try to escape must crawl through the mixture. The hill must be completely soaked for this to work. Because they burrow deep into the ground, they may pop up in a different area but in most cases this does cure the problem.

The dish soap is biodegradable, which in turn will not hurt the environment. This is always a consideration taken into account. When it rains, the soap will wash deeper into the ant hill hopefully reaching the queen and put an end to the colony.