Al Carrell: Now there is a nonpoisonous way to kill ants. But there is a better way. I've got a magic formula, come on and I'll show you. All you need for your magic formula is going to be two parts molasses, one part sugar, and one part dry yeast. These two attract them and the yeast causes them to swell up and explode. So we'll mix it up and you'll see how easy it is to take care of those ant problems. Now, we're using tablespoons as our parts. If you have a big ant colony, you want to use cups, maybe. That ought to really attract them. And then you want to add your yeast powder. And then what you do is just mix it up real good. When you get it mixed you're ready to go outside and go to work against those ants. Now normally, this is a formula that attracts sugar ants, so you'd use it inside, but we don't have any ants inside the house. We found some outside here. What you do is just drip a little of this on a card and then you put it down where the ants would be attracted to it. In this case, we're going to go down to the ant bed. And as you can see, they're already starting to come out here. And once they eat it, the yeast gets inside, it causes them to swell up and you end up with a whole bunch of dead ants. Incidentally, if you have fire ants, there's a nontoxic way to get rid of them, and that's to use grits. You just pour the grits over the mound, and when you do that they will come in here and they'll eat the grits and it will cause them to swell up, and they'll explode too.
Episode 32 1996 - 97 Season
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