Linda: Insecticide recipes for ant removal should use Boric Acid (H3BO3-
you can get it at drugstores)) not Borax ( A mixutre of sodium borate
compounds usually Na2B4O7.10H2O-this is the laundry or soap additive)).
Anyway a pinch can be added to something greasy and something sweet. Among
other things I have used potato chip crumbs, cookie crumbs, cooking grease
and sugar. Your recipes are headed in the right direction just put the
bait somewhere you can see if they take it and wait. It takes awhile to
kill a colony.
My main problem is the nest just gets recolonized by the neighbor's ants
so I have to do it regularly. Today I am repotting and picked up two pots
with ants. Time to feed them again
Patty

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