ConcertinaMusic.com wrote:

My experience has been that if you get rid of the food source, the ants will
leave.


At least half the battle, and the info that insecticide producers don't
want you to know )

In our house the cat food was the target. We placed the cats' food bowl in

Very clever. Our dog food attracted mice as well as ants. Late one
fall, we had the fire department out when the dryer started smoking for
no apparent reason. A mouse had begun storing dog food around the flame
thingy in the dryer and his stash caught fire ) When the fire fighter
told me what he found, I first suspected my son, but there was no way a
mischievious kid could have gotten dog food into the confined space it
was in.

a slightly larger container that was partially filled with water. This
artificial "moat" prevented the ants from getting to the food (ants don't
swim). They soon tired of searching for another food source and left.

Good luck,

Ken