ChattyCathy wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:37:41 +0000, brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> "Andy" > wrote in message ...
>>> (Be sure to read both. )
>>>
>>> OLD VERSION:
>
>> I'll betcha it wasn't a black ant.
>
> And I'll betcha it wasn't the Andy we know who posted this...
>
> Having said that - kitchen ants are a royal PITA. Every spring we spray
> some gawd-awful insecticide around the house to keep the ant population
> down. Helps a bit, but not as much as I'd like.
>

The little ants that come in our kitchen are pharaoh ants, yours might
be the same but the treatment is the same. Use boric acid mixed with
peanut butter, put in small bottle caps and then put those in the path
of the ants. I had the damned things in my computer once. Was
interesting to watch them eat the peanut butter and then disappear.