Floridabear - except moving to the Antarctica... There are no ants in Antarctica! Get your plant out of the house in a shade, drench it with something - I would try house hold Clorax bleach - like 1 part of Clorax- 4 parts of water - pour it into your pot - and let them all run out. They wouldn't like it for sure. Ants live in colonies - so several ants if left do not reinfest anything - they will die from loneliness, poor things. If you have the nest in your house - that's the one you need to get rid off - otherwise they will fill your house - and sleeping with ants in your bed... they sting. You need to check with your local pest control guys - what they recommend. You can put baits with egg yolk mixed with Borax and make them carry their own poson in their nest - but if you want to eradicate them right now - pest control will be better - who knows what else you have - may be termites are eating your walls...Everything is alive in Florida. good luck Irina

Texas Girl, we got our beneficial nemitodes at Lockhill feed store in San Antonio, they are $48 for 6 million, but Jim, in Aranasa found them at Turners Nursery in Corpus Christi, for $22.50 for 6 million. Next month we are going to Corpus to get them. I can really tell the diffrence. You have to spray them in the evening when it is cool, and sprinkle the yard. We were lucky and it rained for 4 days, after we sprayed. My husband and I laughted, and laughted, since the nemitodes are invisible, and we kept thinking what if the sponge was empty, but it wasn't. Barbra,

I had an issue with the same sort of ants a couple of years ago. What I remember from the Google research I did at the time is that the trick is a poisoned bait that they will take back to the nest so it wipes out the whole colony. I also remember that these ants are looking for a very particular type of food depending on the needs of the colony at the time; sometimes it's protein, sometimes sugar, or something like that. Anyhow, this means that a given type of bait works if it's what they're looking for, and is ignored if it's not. I bought some bait dispensers at my local hardware store and put them in the path the ants were using to get in and out -- once a food source is discovered, the workers follow a pheromone trail to and from the nest and don't stray from the path, so putting bait elsewhere is hopeless. The first time I tried this the bait sat there for weeks and had no effect. I tried the same traps again, a couple months later, and the ants were completely decimated in a couple of days.

This is a recipe that was given by the head groundskeeper of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It uses somewhat what Daisy referred to...only use boric acid....bought at any drugstore. To two cups (450 millilitres) of boiling water, add two teaspoons of boric acid, and two cups (450 grams) of granulated sugar. (I know how to measure metric...but I'm still not used to writing about it) Stir to dissolve sugar fully. Let cool. Then, into a small container....much like a margarine container, you put holes at the sides at the bottom to let the ants enter. Into the container you place about 6 cotton balls (also bought at the drugstore) after soaking them in the solution. Put the lid on to prevent other insects such as bees from entering. Then place the containers where you see the trails or mounds of ants. The idea is for the sugar to be the come-on...the boric acid the killer. The worker ant takes the liquid back to the nest and feeds it, like a good ant will, to Queenie.. she gets a terrible tummy ache....and the colony dies with her. Any pointed shoe can kill an ant in the corner...it takes a wise wearer to know how to kill hundreds without putting your foot down. Anyway, its supposed to work on the feared RED ANTS of southern U.S. so I cant see where an Ausie ant's stomach is any less upsetting. Now there are a few more suggestions and they are talked about widely whether they, in fact, work or not. Grits....that southern U.S. morning food.....tastes like bland cream of wheat... well, this stuff expands when moistened and figuring an ant's stomach has such acid, it suggests when an ant eats the grits, the stuff explodes inside its stomach. Another one....make the ant cross through some baking soda. He gets it on his feet (or whatever an ant calls his feet), some of it gets into his mouth...and the old story.... when baking soda gets wet it turns into carbon dioxide.... GAS that is....and since an ant cant burp, cant flatulate, he goes all to pieces. Anyway, that's the theory.