Ants
Posted By: mtmtmtmt on 2006-04-22
In Reply to: Ant problem...please help. - RaeMT
Go to Walmart and buy Terro (sp?). You place a drop of it on a piece of the cardboard of the box it came in. We had a serious problem with ants and this is what we used. The ants would line up to eat it and take it back to the colony. After a week, they were all gone.
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