ANT FORMULA

Al Carrell: Have you ever noticed in your kitchen a whole line of little ants marching along to go over to get some food that you left out? These are called Pharaoh Ants and they're also called Sugar Ants. And they really are pesky, but there is a way to get rid of them.

I have a formula that's very easy for you to mix up and requires only three things. Some crystal clear white corn syrup, boric acid powder and a little water. The first thing you want to do is to pour out ten ounces of the Karo syrup and put it in a sauce pan. Next you're going to pour in about a half a cup of water and turn the heat on to a very low setting and use that to help you blend this stuff. It just makes it blend a lot easier. Now take your spoon, start blending it around, and when you get the water and the syrup all blended so that they are one, then you want to add two teaspoons of the boric acid powder.

And there's one, there's two, and you want to continue to stir and get it all mixed up. Now when it's all mixed up, what you want to do is put it in some little bottle caps and just take it and put it out real close to where the ants are walking along. And you're going to see if they're going to be attracted to it.

If you don't have any bottle caps on hand, you can just put some out on a business card, anything, so that they can get to it. Just be sure you put it out where kids and pets can't get to it.

Episode 42 1996 - 97 Season

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