REGARDING RE>Ants Steve Albritton writes: "I checked my hives last night and the ants are getting bad enough that I've got to do something. I am new and started in Mid April with two 3 pound packages from South Louisiana. We set them out and they promptly combined into the same hive. We managed to get about 1 pound back in the second hive. So I have one really weak hive that I am trying to save. I purchased a feeder that installs in the top of the hive to prevent robbing. Now I've got ants crawling up the outside of the hive to get to the sugar water. Can I spray the outside of the hive with borax soap or must I try spraying the bottom of the hive trying to stay away from the bees? I would not spray anything around the hives. Bees could be affected by the detergent as well as ants. There was a post about a week ago that suggested putting the detergent with 1:1 syrup into a small jar, punching nail holes into the jar cap, and putting it on its side in the path of the ants. I'm going to give this a try, because, like you, ants are attacted in huge numbers to my hivetop sugar syrup feeders. I think I fed more ants than bees with mine. Ted Fischer