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tape glue-side up and put some sugar or honey on it. Check it in the morning and see how many ants you trapped.
     
    SLIPPERY SUGGESTION
    To keep ants from getting on your plants, just place some lard, Vaseline®, Crisco®, butter, etc. around the base of the plant.
     
    TREAT THEM TO A GREAT BREAKFAST CEREAL
Ingredients:
    1½ cup Cream of Wheat
     
    Kaboom!
Just place a dish of Cream of Wheat where the ants can easily access it. After they eat it, the cereal will expand and the ants will explode.
        
     
     
     
     
    KILL THEM WITH KINDNESS
    If you want to trap ants and make them really happy, all you have to do is open a bottle of cheap maple syrup (not the real expensive stuff); the ants will find the bottle very quickly, enter it and drown.
     
    DON’T CHEW IT FIRST!
    The only chewing gum that works to repel ants is a mint-flavored or spearmint gum. Just place an opened piece in all the drawers of the kitchen or wherever you are having a problem. Also, works great at the base of a houseplant.
     
    THE ANT TRAPPER
        The following ingredients will be needed:
     
      6              Tablespoons of granulated sugar
                    6              Tablespoons of active dry yeast (fresh)
                  ½              Cup standard grade molasses or honey
                  10              Small plastic lids or bottle caps
     
    Place all the ingredients in a small bowl and mix thoroughly until it is smooth. Place a small amount of the mixture into the lids or caps and place them near an ant trail or near their mound. The mixture can also be spread on a piece of cardboard or small stick and placed in their pathway or in a crevice.
     
    ANTS BY THE POUND
    It takes 500,000 sugar ants to equal 1 pound. If you weigh all the ants on earth, they will weigh more than all humans on earth.
     
     BIG NEWS! ANT KILLS ELEPHANT
        In Africa a hungry ant can enter an elephant’s ear and eat them from the inside out. A number of elephants every year fall prey to ants.
     
     
     
     
     
    GETTING RID OF ANT HILLS
    The following ingredients will be needed:
     
                  ¼              Cup of liquid hand soap
    1              Gallon of cool tap water
     
    Place the ingredients into a bucket and mix well, then pour 1-2 cups on the anthill and repeat after 1 hour to be sure that the mixture penetrates deep into the chambers.             
     
    FOLLOW THAT ANT
        All ants leave a scent trail, which you need to follow by observing the ant’s behavior. If you can find the nest, you can eliminate the entire nest thus solving the problem.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    ANT SPRAY FOR THE GARDEN
        The following ingredients will be needed:
     
2              Tablespoons of flaked Ivory soap
    1              Tablespoon of Tabasco Sauce™
                  5              Drops of sesame seed oil (from health food store)
                  5              Drops of Jungle Rain™ (from garden supply)
    1              Gallon spray bottle
     
    Place all ingredients in the gallon bottle and shake to mix well. This can be sprayed directly on the ants or on their pathways. Keep away from children and pets.
     
    POWDER THEIR NOSES
    Place diatomaceous earth (DE food grade), powdered charcoal, powdered pyrethrum-silica dust or bone meal around the base of the plants in an area; in which the ants are bothering the plants. Do not breathe in the dust, best to wear a mask when mixing the ingredients.
     
    ARGENTINE ANTS
     
        This ant has become very popular in the southern part of the United States as well as California. It is very active and protects honeydew-producing insects such as aphids, whiteflies and soft scales.
     
    They are one of the more common house ants that