One of the more... "eccentric" guys that I worked with in the service devised a solution to an ant problem in his house. The normal treatments all failed and desperation had set in. Here's how it went down.
He gathered a bunch of ants in a jar, sat at his kitchen table with a board, a #11 scalpel and a lighted magnifier. He then cut the heads off of the ants and mounted said heads to the tops of clipped straight pins. Having a large piece of cardboard bristling with creepiness on a tiny scale, he proceeded to place these bizarre totems at strategic locations throughout the house in hopes that the living ants would recognize the peril. As I recall, the place was ant-free in a few days.
While this is a rather labor-intensive potential solution, it serves as a macabre beacon of hope. ;-)
