jmcquown wrote:
>
> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
> ...
> > George Shirley wrote:
> >>
> >> The little ants that come in our kitchen are pharaoh ants, yours might
> >> be the same but the treatment is the same.
> >
> > I have no idea what type of ants they are, except that they're tiny and
> > extremely annoying...
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > I'll try this, if I can get my hands on some of the aforementioned boric
> > acid; PB I have.
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Chatty Cathy
>
> For some reason those tiny ants are attracted to vinegar. Plain white
> vinegar. They'll drown themselves in it if you leave a few shallow dishes
> with vinegar around where the ants are.
>
> Jill

Try putting of few drops of liquid dish soap into that white vinegar,
and it'll work even better I bet. With those flying fruit flies &
gnats, I use a little bit of apple cider vinegar with the liquid soap in
a small bowl and it works great! I gave up on the 'funnel' idea for the
flies since it wasn't as successful.

Would Borax (found in the laundry soap aisles at most grocery stores)
make a good substitute for the boric acid? Are the two the same thing?

I vaguely remember that if a boric acid solution is sprayed onto
Christmas trees before their brought into the house, this application
greatly helps as a fire retardant. Whether or not this is accurate, I
don't know.

Sky

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