Enroll them in a dating service and marry them off. They won't actually be dead, but they might as well be.

 

If they are big enough, a shotgun with small pellets works wonders.

 

Diazanon (Think that is spelled right) .. Available in most home garden centers (e.g. Lowes Home Depot) It's grannular and you put it down where the ants walk ... it sticks to the body and they carry it back to the mound ....

 

Ok. To be serious. A non-toxic approach is diatomaceous earth. It's the same stuff used in pool filtration. Essentially just ground up sea shells. Sprinkle it around the areas you have activity, or want to protect. It is like putting down broken glass powder. The insects have exo-skeletons (on the outside of their bodies, not inside like we vertebrates) and as they walk through the stuff, it embeds itself in their joints. As they move, they rip themselves to pieces and die. I said non poisonous, not pretty.

 

Step on them. Die ants die!

 

Use a propane tank.

 

Buy a large bag of plastic army men. hang one from a stick and light 'er up!!! if you hold them about chest level or higher the molten flaming plastic globules make the neatest ZzzzEEEeeet..... sound. works best when you stand near the mound, but it can be used to discourage ants "on the scent trail". Works particularly on fire ant mounds where the "soldier ants" feel obliged to attack the still soft plastic and they get stuck in it.....
If you do "attack" a fire ant mound this way.......watch your shoes if one bites you (and they will if they get on you.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Palmateer
[B]This works with elephants - dig a pit and fill it with ashes.

 

Take Wrigley's Spearmint gum wrappers and put them on or around the ant trails. In a day or two they'll make new trails and then move the wrappers to the new trails.

In two or three cycles of this, the ants will not come back. If, and when they don't come back, put the wrappers on and near the cracks that the ants use to come into the house. They will soon no longer infest your home.

 

Flamethrower.

Or Napalm.

(Use only in a well-ventillated area.)