I don't know about you all, but I'm having a horrible time with ants this year. I ran across this recipe I'm going to try in a practical solutions book I have. I think I'm going to try it and thought I would share it with you.

Ant Trap

Give the tiny black intuders a fatal but unchemical case of indigestion.

1/3 cup molasses 6 T. sugar 6 T. active dry yeast

Stir all ingredients together until it makes a paste. Coat strips of cardboardwitht he mixture or put into bottle caps. Then place in infested areas.

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2002

Answers

Mmmm...sounds delicious, Denise :-)!! Actually it sounds like it might work for wasps and slugs, too. Thanks for the recipe!

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2002

How about pouring the mixture over some pine sap? Maybe the little boogers will end up being "amber ants" someday...

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2002

Heres another..equal parts icing sugar and borax. Put it in a container with holes so they can get in and out and carry this stuff back to the nest.

-- Anonymous, June 13, 2002