"Phisherman" wrote

If you want something absolutely nontoxic, putting pepper (black, white,
or cayenne) or cinnamon around their trails will leave them confused,
and they will leave. You can then vacuum up the pepper or cinnamon

As strange as it may be, ants dislike lime and that can be heavily
sprinkled around the house foundation. Kids' "sidewalk chalk" can be

For exterior and totally non-toxic, dry grits along the hill will kill the
ants and the queen. They try to eat it and cant. Will feed it to the queen
too.