At 10:05 PM 21/05/2014, you wrote:

>Insecticides are amazingly unhelpful.  There's an endless supply of
>nests out there, and killing the nearest just makes habitat for the
>expansion of others.

When I was a kid, we'd pour fuel oil or gasoline into the nest which
would kill them, but that's probably a capital offense these days.

Allegedly if you take a shovel and remove the top of two anthills down
to the larvae, and swap them, the ants are so territorial that they'll
destroy each other and all their territory becomes yours. References
to human colonial and neo-colonial ruling techniques elided.

Borax managed to keep them out of the dishwasher until we got another
one that sealed better, and of course it's not toxic to humans.

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