If the ants ever get on your kitchen counter you can make a spray bottle of dish soap (about 2 tbls) and water. Then spray them and they die instantly. They can no longer breath. No need to worry about chemicals around food. We get ants twice a year around Sacramento. When it is too hot and when it rains. I hate them.

Ants come into get the protein in hand soap, so that means kitchen and bathroom.

I like the idea of spray of dish degerent.
We get ant anytime here in SC I found some today. Is is raining and chilly. Who knows do ants like hot dry or cold weather.

TERRO ........ works wonders. In fact, hubby is at this moment, putting a drop or two on the back of the counter.......

comes in an orange box at the supermarket.

bye-bye, ants !!

You got that right. Whereabouts are you, neighbor?

For ants that love my cats' dry food, I simply put down a few
crushed Wrigley's Breath Mints. The ants went away and have never
returned.

Then I put some outdoors, and the ants swarmed over them!!
Might be a different kind of ant. So had to resort to my old favorite,
sugar and boric acid. This always kills off insects, ants, roaches, don't
know about sliver fish that a friend was talking about recently. She will
try the boric acid with them.

This is a reply to Mad Quilter

I live just a few blocks north of Elk Grove. Hwy 99 and Mack Rd :thumbup:

Boric acid is sold in hardware stores and plant nurseries as a bug remedy. Not toxic and can be sprinkled in out of way places.

Someone told me to put down corn meal. They take it back to the nest and they eat it, but they cannot digest it. It kills them.

Ooooh - big and juicy? chocolate covered ants? YUK