Kirk, This is going to sound strange but I took a part of the advice from someone on the list and made a paste using old melter honey, borax soap, powdered sugar and water. I kept the borax at about 10% (like most commercial poisons) and made it the consistency of thin lube grease put it in a cheap air grease gun ($20.00) and using the thin pencil like tip I use for my chainsaw I injected it into drinking straws. If the tip fits the straw you can place it well inside and shoot it in till 2" from the end and pull it out so that it's 2" from the other end also. I've put these on my pallets in the yards that are traditionally ant problems and it works so far. I run Myers clips on my pallet so there is a 3/8-1/2" gap between the boxes and that's where I've dropped a straw between each box (2/pallet). You can fill quite a few straws with one gun load and very fast too. FWIW If your a real cheapskate you can refill the old straw after you dig it out. No apparent problem with the bees. I also need some advice on building a electric bear fence. Is it the same as a fence for cows or is the configuration different. I've picked up some new locations that had bear sightings within a mile last year. These are good ones so I'd like to risk keeping out the bears. Thanks! Brian Tassey Atwater, CA [log in to unmask]