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On 09/04/2018 15:34, Huge wrote:
On 2018-04-09, DerbyBorn wrote:


I was advised


Wrongly.

that anything that attracts ants is best used outside the
house as that is where they first came from.


When we had our boiler & HW replaced there were a couple of buckets of
fine sand behind them. Several years worth of ants.

Borax is a specific insecticide. It affects a part of their chemistry
that vertebrates don't have.

Andy