{"id":352,"date":"2012-04-22T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/ecosmart-ant-and-roach-killer\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T17:39:16","slug":"ecosmart-ant-and-roach-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/ecosmart-ant-and-roach-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecosmart Ant and Roach Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer we get ants in the house, especially in the kitchen where they like to harvest Apollo&#8217;s leftovers.  We hate to spray insecticide around where Apollo and we eat, but hate having ants in the house too.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecosmart.com\/\">Ecosmart Ant and Roach Killer<\/a> at Home Depot.  The active ingredients are peppermint oil and rosemary oil.  Without much hope, we bought a can to try.  We were very surprised.  It is quite effective in killing any ants that are present, and it discourages ants from entering where it has been sprayed.  I suspect that the neurotoxins the big chemical companies market may work better and last longer, but this seems fine and I feel a lot better spraying it around the house.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense, when you realize that plants developed many of their chemicals to discourage insects from eating them.  Fortunately these particular chemicals are benign to humans, and in fact we use them to flavor our foods.  They smell a lot better than the petroleum-based sprays too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s my recommendation for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer we get ants in the house, especially in the kitchen where they like to harvest Apollo&#8217;s leftovers. We hate to spray insecticide around where Apollo and we eat, but hate having ants in the house too. Last year we found Ecosmart Ant and Roach Killer at Home Depot. The active ingredients are peppermint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}