The Terro contains borax, mixed with an attractant for the sweet-eating ants... it's worked before, but this seems a very persistant bunch... but you put a drop on a little cardboard square, and they gather round like it's a buffet table... maybe I could use the blowtorch then, if the S/O didn't object to scorch marks on the kitchen counter...

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