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PS I recently read of this technique to control ants bout using anything toxic. Have not yet tried it, but it sounds credible.

Basically, it involved a tablespoon of uncooked white rice, ground in a blade type coffee grinder to an extremely fine rice powder. Put it close to ant runs, under cover to protect from rain.

Seems that they love the stuff and carry copious amounts of it back to the Queen. She gorges on the rice flour, which swells massively causing her to explode. Remains of the colony will then desert the nest!