Edited by author 02-04-2002 01:05 AM
Follow your house ants back to their nest. Sprinkle the area liberally with dry corn meal. The ants will store it and eat it. Its excessive dryness will swell them up and finally kill them.

Same with annoying seagulls. Throw them Alka-Seltzer. They'll happily catch it mid-air and eat it. They don't burp and so will 'blow up' (it's not as cool/disgusting as it sounds) and die.

Activated charcoal (the stuff you get at the fish store) will absorb bad odors.

And so on....