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[Leo]

My home has a wild nest of pheidole sp. And they can often be seen on my ant shelf, foraging for food. A few days ago, I lifted my cricket bin and found a few hundred pheidole tromping about and trying to remove 7 dead crickets! they had clearly killed them as some were still twitching. I took a look at the bottom of the bin and found three live crickets being pulled apart! so I removed all the remaining crickets and "confiscated" the dead crickets. Then I washed the bin thoroughly and returned the contents. But yesterday, they raided again. And its starting to get annoying. What should I do?

[Yosigi]

If I remember right, most ants don't like the smell of vinegar.  Try wiping the outside of the bin with some, and use some fluon (or whatever escape preventative you use) to the top of the inside.

[GeorgeK]

Boric acid in powder also works great. Just make a line of it and they won't come near it. You can also add boric acid in sugar water and try to poison wild colony