This is a wild one. Sprinkle cornmeal around the mound. Ants eat it. Then they can’t digest it. They explode.
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I know. It’s graphic. But it’s also hilarious to imagine a tiny ant saying, “I shouldn’t have had that fourth kernel.”
It takes time. Patience, young Jedi. The ants will vanish over a week.
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Buy food-grade diatomaceous earth. It’s crushed fossil dust. To ants, it’s like walking on a bed of razor blades made of ancient sea creatures.
Sprinkle a ring around the mound. Do not pile it on. A thin line is a death trap.
It dries them out. It’s poetic justice for all the times they ruined your picnic.
