I think ole Shameless left a bunch of HIS ants when he snuck in here some time back,,,,,,

 Don't have an idee where they all come from but is worst year for ants here since we bought the place 40 years ago,,,??

 There is an ant hole bout every 100 yards and the only'ist ones I really need to get rid of are close to the house and my work areas. I had to do some welding  mods to the trash trailer and after I got it backed up to where the welding leads reached,,I realized I was standing on a big ant bed and had some already crawling up my pant leg,,,,

 I do not know HOW it happened but at my Grandson's last baseball game, I musta got one up my pants leg and as I was driving home after game,,I felt something crawling up my leg and at first stop light,,I scratched it ,,,,and THEN the fun started,,,!!!  CHIT it hurt as it bit me 3 times before I could stop car get out of car and pull my pants down,,,in front of several people,,,and the ant was still on my leg,,,CHIT that hurt!! finally got it off my leg and everybody started honking and laughing,,,,(good thing I had changed undies)

 Anyway,,I googled home remedies as the store bought stuff did NOT work,,!! There was an artickle where they use BORAX mixed with Powdered sugar and water and boil it for 3 mins and spread along the trails,,, Says they will carry it into the hole and kills 100%,,,?? Anybody use this,,??

 Yeah, Steve and another thing,,,you can also use Baking Soda mixed with granulated sugar with a little corn meal,,(A real smorgasborg, by golly) and they take that into the hill and when it hits their digestive system,,,,,they "Blow Up",,,,Jeeeze,,,I don't want to annilate em,,,just make em go away! Ya see according to that person that wrote the article, the worker ants do not drink water because of their digestive system,,,,who knew,,,!! I treated the big hill close to my work area and been watching em,,,but CHIT,,,they is just as industrious as they was yesterday,,,!!! They are coming and going to the big Mulberry tree in back yard and they are moving along bout 4-6 wide in both directions. I oughta video them workers and post on FB bout How to get the economy going again,,,,Chit,,,I'm outa here,,,,,,!!!!

I use borax, brown sugar, and vegatable oil... I mix it into a thin paste, then plop little spoonfuls of it around the basement, in the garage...

Borax is Boric Acid... even if they don't eat it, it will react to their exoskeleton and kill them, but it will get carried back to the colony if they make it... and that will take care of the colony pretty rapidly, too... the brown sugar is 'bait', and veg oil helps 'bind' it all together without drying out.

"borax bait" works well on a wide variety of ants, crickets, centipedes, silverfish, some spiders, mice... occasionally a small rat...  but anything larger is not affected.  The little splotches will last indefinitely, at least, until critters have consumed them.

I use '100 mule team', it's the common brand around here.  Do a web search on the name, to find out why they have that name... cool history.

They make 'paths' between what they have chosen as a 'primary' resource, to the colony (hole in the ground).  What you can do, is drop down splotches every 10 feet or so on each side of their path.

If they're climbing your mulberry tree, it is probably going to be dead in a year or so... they're probably ripping the sap-laden center out and carrying it back to the colony stores.