I don't like ants, they fight dirty; go for the ankles. But I'm not for cruelty either.

So, if you're genocidally inclined, but need a rationalle, say, getting them out of your kitchen, here's a home remedy:

For starters, ants can't fart. Any Entimologists here, please verify this, it's a matter of faith with me. If you make a mixture of honey, yeast, and some water, and put it within reach of where they forage, they'll go for it with a an antlike, boundless enthusiasm. They'll swarm and eat like pigs. They'll take it home to the kids. The yeast will somehow form an increasing gas pressure inside the target ant, and it'll have no way to vent it. So, they don't have much else to do but explode, eventually. Or maybe just quietly burst, I'm not sure. Anyway, all the ants that got a free meal next to your kitchen sink or under the cats' dish will within a couple of days, be too blown up and dead to discuss it much with the other ants.

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