heartcream
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"Baits take advantage of the foraging habits of the fire ants and are not to be confused with granular forms of insecticides. Baiting works in a very similar fashion. The bait is carried by workers back to the colony and fed to other ants, including the queen. It works much slower than granular insecticides. Baits work differently, too, in that they do not use insecticides to poison the colony, but work slowly by affecting the queen’s reproductive ability. The colony will still have workers running around, but no new ants will be born to replenish the population. Eventually the colony dies off, as the ants die from natural causes or from their own short life span. " Use lemons?
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