ahhh... all such good ideas, except I can pretty much guarantee that the lovely ants Brandi is dealing with are argentine ants....the bane of my existence when living in CA....you just can't kill them!

Terro doesn't work since they have multiple queens and since they are essentially only one big colony from Mexico to Canada they can go to any nest. Ahhhh... the joys of living in CA.

Good luck Brandi! If you do know where they are coming in cinnamon works well... they won't walk across it. One year we gave them a little area of the kitchen counter, surrounded it by cinnamon and peacefully co-existed.