Unlike MacGyver, Lieningin, and Charlton Heston…  (See post from April 27th) I have found an ally in my battle with the ants, his name is AMDRO.  I’ve tried alot of different ant baits, poisons, sprays, etc…  This is best product I’ve found.  Unlike Terro, it isn’t runny.  It is more paste like, and will stick wherever you put it.  I used the syringe version of Amdro.  It was easy to apply right to the ants paths, so they were guaranteed to find it.  I did this less than a week ago, and I’ve seen no ants inside, and the big lines of ants are gone.  I catch a few on the house every so often, but it seems to have worked really well.  I also took the added step of caulking wherever I caught the ants getting into the house (i.e. cracks in the brick, etc…).  This probably helped alot as well, but the Amdro has apparently done the job of killing the colonies fairly well, since I’ve seen much, MUCH less activity around the yard.  I’m really pleased, and thought I would share this, since I have heard from many folks that they are having trouble too.  And if you didn’t the read the comments on the previous Ants posting, I cleaned with lemon 409, and the kitchen has been ant free ever since.  Just for kicks I thought I really test the power of lemon, and cleaned our picnic table with it (lots of ants).  It may be just from the cleaning, and not the lemon, but I’ve seen a huge difference there as well. 

So, Caulk, Amdro, Lemon 409.  That seems to do the trick.