I'd recommend just swiping the free packets at restaurants (if you don't go to any restaurants, then have a family member or friend who does get some for you). That way you aren't directly putting money in the pockets of the artificial sweetener manufacturers.

Wouldn't it be funny if they also sold the Aspartame AS an ant poison? You know, 5 aisles over? (Yes, it's sad.)

you can mix borax and Sugar together to make a very affective ant killer that is not very toxic. now, you don't want ot be eating that mix or anything! but its much better to have in your environment than ant poison or even aspertame in my opinion.

Yep! I tried it, and it really helped. I mixed mine with defrosted concentrated apple juice.

Just sprinkle corn meal over the ants nest. It takes a few days and works better after a rain. Ants can't digest the corn meal after eating it.

For worms: Sprinkle self rising flour on the plants. The worms explode after eating it. Only Self Rising Flour works.

As a diabetic who has actually USED aspartame(unlike MOST of the people who delight in posting negative comments about it) for the dozen or so years since I was diagnosed, I haven't suffered any of the "93 symptoms of Aspartame poisoning" that weren't already connected to my preexisting conditions.
The Ants on my kitchen table are healthy, too. They just keep on marching past the empty packets, heading for the sugar, as if they don't even know it's there. They also swarm empty DrPepper bottles in minutes, but don't bother Diet Coke bottles even after they sit for days.
This is no surprise, because Aspartame is not even remotely related to the carbohydrates ants crave. Whoever (allegedly) tricked the ants into eating Aspartame in the first place would deserve a NOBEL PRIZE if it were actually true. The ONLY person I know of that could be THAT TRICKY would be the one who tricked people the world over into believing she was a fully accredited, board certified doctor, when she was actually just awarded an HONORARY DOCTORATE for her participation in the PUBLICATION of NON-PEER REVIEWED STUDIES. Her work was INSTRUMENTAL in the DENYING of GULF WAR VETERANS BENEFITS, due to the relabeling of GULF WAR SYNDROME as ASPARTAME POISONING.

Did not work on the formosans in my yard.

Seeing as how we have this huge ant hill by our office now, I am gonna give this a shot and take some pics while I am at it!! I'll post on the outcome.