There are some things ants can't stand. I believe white wine vinegar is one of them. You need to eradicate the trails more than you need to eradicate individual ants.
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Yep. Wife said similar things about trails and vinegar-ishness and such.
*But* my fun little killing spree, combined with some poison, combined with removing a clinging/climbing plant that provided a superhighway for their eager journeys into our kitchen worked - although I guess that removal constituted addressing the main trail.
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