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Ants eat it and die.
Columnist Richard Fagerlund, ''The Bug Man,'' says you can either make your own bait using 2 parts peanut butter and three parts honey, mixed with a teaspoon of boric acid per six ounces of mix, or you can buy baits designed specifically for Pharaoh ants. Fagerlund suggests making your own bait and then stuffing it into short pieces of plastic straws. Place these plastic straws in cabinets, under cabinets, along walls, in window runners and possibly even tape some behind electric wall outlet switch covers. Place them all over the house, including places where you haven't seen the ants. The plastic straws protect the bait and make great little bait containers.