Clean Cure for Ants

Re “Rain Has Ants on the Move; People Are Crying Uncle,” Dec. 6: I never thought I’d be writing about my cure for home ant invasions, but here’s what I’ve devised: If the ants are in the kitchen or bathroom and are marching along the counters, I take some liquid soap (I prefer Dawn but I’m sure any would work) and draw out a line of soap around the portal of entry. I also encircle any other sites on the counter that I don’t want the ants to cross. In just a few seconds the ants will become mired in the soap, drown and die -- without getting through the soap moat.

I leave them in the soap to “warn” other ants not to come in -- or it will be their last Dawn to experience. Cleaning up is easy; after all, it’s just soap.

Roberta Schiller

Los Angeles