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Originally Posted by Tom
When we had a pretty serious ant infestation a couple of years ago, this is what finally worked for us:
Take something like a yogurt container lid and put inside it a mix of equal parts sugar and borax (doesn't have to be a lot). Add just enough water to mix it into a paste-like consistency and place it in the tracks of where the ants go. Once they find it, they bring bits of it back to the nest and within a couple of days or so, no more ants.
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I've tried to do that, but I'm too impatient to wait for them to bring the borax mixture back to their nest. I find it too unnerving to let them wander about while I'm around. I end up windexing them, then caulking every entry point I can find.