you can try the commercial ant bait.  That would take care of the queen, and once the queen is gone, the ants are gone, too.

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>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:55 -0700
>From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: ant problems  
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>we have no ants in our house but i can not keep up woth beds of them in our yard. any sure fire way of getting rid of these little pest. 
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>they are the little black ones not the big red fire ants. 
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