Oh goodness dear friend! I cannot stand bugs and creepy crawlies especially in my pantry. I would have screamed and went crazy if I felt one of those crawling up my neck.
Have you tried using essential oils? The main 3 we use to keep pests away are peppermint, lemongrass and tea tree. You can put drops of them on cotton balls and lay them in the troublesome areas or make a spray adding a little glycerin in there to help it stay longer.
I haven't tried EOs other than citronella in my diffuser to cover the dog smell when we have people over. Not sure if it really helped with the bugs. ;) Ha! We have some lemongrass growing in our neighborhood and someone else suggested that as well. May boil some up and see if that helps to spray it around. I think I have some of the other oils as well. May try a mixture. The beetles, I'm afraid, will be here until their season is up. The flies are just insane during the day..... And I was picking ants out of my nutella and peanut butter in the last few days! Yuck!! Extra protein???
That would be a good idea to boil some and try out a mixture with the other oils!
Oh my 😮...I don’t think I could survive picking ants out of my jar foods!! So annoying!
Lol - it was annoying, but thankfully they hadn't gotten to much of it. I don't think the lids were on tight. I boiled some lemongrass tonight and sprayed it all around outside the house and some inside. Will have to see if it helps some tomorrow. Have a pretty much limitless supply here so I could redo it every day if it works. ;)
Oh good! Please let me know if it worked!! I sure hope it does since you already have it in hand.
Well, there were ants and flies today like normal. Not as many june bugs, but I can hear them hitting the windows now...and perhaps their season is over. I was really hoping the spray would help, but it doesn't look like I did enough or it just didn't. I just sprayed the "tea" I made all around the outside of our glassed in room and where I had seen ants inside.
Oh No!!! I was really hoping it would work. ☹️ Thanks for letting me know. Are you going to try another method?