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[JoshuaFH]

Wait, EPIPHANY!

ANTEATERS!

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IN SWEATERS!

[Cheddarius]

GENIUS

[Lord Dakoth]

Impractical ideas aside, you should try to find out where they're coming from. If it's from outside, there are a number of creative ways you could dispose of them. Pouring gasoline down their hole has worked wonders for one of my neighbors, the fumes usually kill them. (Provided that you find every single hole.)

If they have made a nest inside, you will probably want to call a professional exterminator.

[JoshuaFH]

I once saw a show where they'd pour molten lead down an anthole, and then carefully dig it up in order to see exactly what the inside of an ant colony looks like.

[chaoticag]

Impractical ideas aside, you should try to find out where they're coming from. If it's from outside, there are a number of creative ways you could dispose of them. Pouring gasoline down their hole has worked wonders for one of my neighbors, the fumes usually kill them. (Provided that you find every single hole.)

If they have made a nest inside, you will probably want to call a professional exterminator.

Not only is that probably illegal, my dad is a government official, and there is a prison just across my house, like facing the driveway close.

Plus, wouldn't I end up with fumes escaping into my house?

[Aqizzar]

Probably.  However, one thing that works great is soapy water, if you can find their nest.  Dump a big pot of hot dishwater onto a pile or down a hole, and they'll be good and dead, and won't resettle there because of the soap.

[WorkerDrone]

Jesus, ants.

Yes, soapy water is the best solution you can get recommended if you don't want to use any poisons.

Keeping the place clean is also a good idea y'know.

Clean clean clean.

[Vester]

Probably.  However, one thing that works great is soapy water, if you can find their nest.  Dump a big pot of hot dishwater onto a pile or down a hole, and they'll be good and dead, and won't resettle there because of the soap.

Scorched earth tactics. Woah.

How big are these ants? Just out of curiosity.

[Cheddarius]

How big are these ants? Just out of curiosity.

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Also, not only does soapy water kill nests like the others said, but as I said earlier, a spray bottle will wreak havoc on any you see.

[DJ]

Detergent lines are like impassable barriers to ants. Just draw a protective circle around your desk. Pentagram pattern optional.

[JoshuaFH]

Why is that? Is there a scientific reason for it?

[Cthulhu]

It removes the pheromones for one, which means they won't be constantly charging the area, but I don't know how it would keep them away.

[Aqizzar]

I don't know if it necessarily keeps them out of the area all together, but the soap residue kills them, especially in conjunction with water, because it breaks up the surface tension.  Any ant that gets soapy soon drowns or suffocates because his little carapace-breathing-pore-things get flooded.

[DJ]

Yeah, they get stuck and drown. And IIRC the breathy holes are called spiracles.

[Karlito]

We battle ants every year.  The little ant poison thingies + spraying raid along every place where they could conceivably be slipping in seems to work fairly well.