A jack-jumper, Guts? Never heard of them, but glad you've kept them to the apple isle.

Ants tend to be meat or sugar eaters.

Ant traps, ie bowls with icecream sticks leading to them with either honey or bacon

or perhaps fried chicken skin in the bowl and touched to the stick can be successful.

They are chemical free because as soon as the bowl is well populated with

ants, a quick hit of boiling water and you have culled hundreds.

Repeat until population below problem levels.

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