You don't have to go on a picnic to discover ants are making themselves a nuisance in your life... and these days, many of us hesitate to use chemicals to get rid of them. Super Handyman Al Carrell says you don't have to... and he has a kitchen recipe you can make up to eliminate any ants you might find creeping... About The House.

Al Carrell: Now there is a non-poisonous way to kill ants, but there is a better way. I've got a magic formula. Come on, I'll show you. All you need for your magic formula is:

• 2 parts molasses
• 1 part sugar
• 1 part dry yeast

Now we're using tablespoons as our parts. If you have a big ant colony, you want to probably use cups maybe.

That'll really attract them. And then you want to add your yeast powder, and then what you do is just mix it up real good. When you get it mixed, you're ready to go outside and go to work against those ants. Now normally this is a formula that attracts sugar ants, so you'd use it inside, but we don't have any ants inside the house. We found some outside here. What you do is just drip a little of this on a card, and then you put it down where the ants will be attracted to it. In this case we're going to go down to the ant bed, and, as you can see, they're already starting to come out here. And once they eat it, the yeast gets inside, it causes them to swell up, and you end up with a whole bunch of dead ants.

Incidentally, if you have fire ants, there's a non-toxic way to get rid of them, and that's to use grits. Use just pour the grits over the mound, and when you do that, they will come in and they'll eat the grits and it'll cause them to swell up, and they'll explode too.

I'm Super Handyman Al Carrell, About the House.