This year black ants seem to have made their way into my house. Strangely though, I only see them in the second bedroom or the bathroom, where no food exists. I tried the round ant traps but those are useless.
Fortunately I found a great low toxic recipe that seems to have worked.
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons boric acid (Borax)
This concoction draws out all the worker ants, a really horrible sight. I resisted the urge to blow torch them all, so that they could take the "kool-aid" back to the nest. Ants gorge and regurgitate their food back in the nest, so everyone including the queen ant dies.
My neighbours said they noticed a increase in ants this year as well.
On a side note, Aidan has a playmate next door. They spend afternoons outside crushing ants with stones. I need to get them each larger stones.
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