This will be my third year at this house and each spring it seems we get several rounds of sugar ants in the kitchen. I call them sugar ants because they appear solely to be attracted to the honey and barley malt syrup in the cupboard, little else. Oh, I guess I did just see this guy with a crumb of something, not honey or barley malt, those are in a pot of soapy water in the sink, drowned ants all around.
I'll probably clean the counters each day and clean out the cabinet where the sticky stuff was housed and cross my fingers that they just sort of retreat. I've tried before to plug all the holes they come through, that works well for a little while, I haven't used an effective trap or poison system really, can you make your own poison? I believe this to be a preventable occurrence and it really isn't a lot of fun to deal with, I need a solution and the interweb is rife with controversy about the best ways to treat them.