>I got some borax laundry additive two weeks ago.  I think my wife said
>it was less than $5 for five pounds.  Well I mixed 1/1 syrup with
>about 1/2 part borax.  Got a super saturate solution had some on the
>bottom. Put some in a small pickle jar about 1/4 full.  Put some 16d
>nail holes in the lid.  Set it on its side at about 30 deg. under the
>hive. In a couple of hours it was killing ants.  They go in the jar
>and never come out.  Bees can't get in so it seems to be O.K.
 
Came home to find ants in the basement pantry.  Mixed syrup and borax
as above, in a plastic 35mm film cannister.  Drilled an 1/8" hole in
the lid and set it directly in the path of the ants.  Later there was
a bee-line to the cannister.  Much later that day a dwindling line of
ants.  The next day few ants and now none.  This stuff works great.
 
 
-- John Taylor --
Southeast Missouri
 
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