Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We've been seeing increasing numbers of carpenter ants in our home over the last three years, to the point it was getting pretty bad and we were thinking about calling in a pest control company (something we didn't want to do). We also have a cat who loves licking baseboards, (I know, we don't understand it either), so we definitely didn't want to use anything toxic! A quick online search gave us the recipe for a non-toxic carpenter ant bait made with boric acid, so we bought this product. We followed the instructions (below), and 24 hours later, we found one flattened and very dead ant, where we usually saw many. That's it. Just one. There are now zero carpenter ants in the house, and it's been over two weeks. We've also put the bait out on our wood deck (where the cat can't get it, and the rain won't either), by using an inverted margerine tub with "doors" cut into it all around the outside. Here's the recipe: Mix 2/3 cup boric acid with 1/3 cup powdered sugar in a ziplock, then spooned the dry mixture into small caps (from the recyling bin) and place under furniture and heat registers, or wherever you've seen ants (but out of reach of playful pets). Then we added another step: After looking at the powder in the caps, we couldn't figure out how the ants were going to carry it to the nest -- it was so powdery! We decided to use a small syringe or eye-dropper to drip small drops of water into each cap (you don't want to flood it!). Over night, the powder absorbed the water and dried to a hard crystaline consistency, which we then used a screw driver to carefully crack into small chunks. Then we put the caps where the cat couldn't find them. AND? It worked like a charm! No more ants! And no costly, toxic pest control!