Ants

[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.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

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.

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.