I went to a pest control company online, and ordered Max Force. It is a bait, and in theory the ants take the bait back to the colony, feed it to the queen and the colony dies. I feel that it works better than poison, and have used it for years.

It will take time to order it, and in the meantime, I would put down some granules to stop them.

We have a very hard time with ants here.

Sammy

Do you have any boron (Borax) around the house? And icing sugar?

Mix them with a little water and put it out in shallow containers. The ants are attracted by the sugar, wade in the mixture and return to their colonies with the borax on their legs, which is what kills the rest of them. The secret is to not have the mixture with so high a concentration of boron that it kill the ants while they are wading in the mixture. They need to survive to take some traces of it back to their nest.

For shallow containers I use lids, but it can be helpful to put a few ramps up to the edge, from both the inside and outside.

I have used this method a number of times and it works.

Google these words: killing ants boron or killing ants borax, for the proper proportions.

Good luck!

Thanks!!!

I do have borax on hand. I get these suckers coming into my house from time to time. I put borax down where they have trails. It does work...as long as they don't kill the plant with it! I think I'm going to take a cutting of this just to be safe. "Dolly Parton" isn't on the market anymore...as far as I know.

Thanks again! I'll do this until I can get the other stuff in here.

ClarinetLady728

I would use Merit granules around the base of the plant and water it in well. Kill the colony is the only way to stop them.