Seriously...who on Earth had the spare time and absence of common sense to come up with this misinformation...I want names people...do NOT tell me they can't be found...somewhere on this planet is a biologist with a baby powder fetish...FIND THEM...they're the ONLY idiots stomping around forest floors with a bottle of baby butt butter...how was this discovered??? That's what I wanna know...did some magnificent moron wander into the jungle with an assload of household products to see which ones had an adverse effect on the pedestrian path an ant might take...or did someone sprinkle baby powder all over the bathroom floor and invite ants in to watch them bathe...I swear...the stupidity of science is slowly taking over and replacing any beneficial information it provides...who really cares what ants prefer to walk through and what they would rather avoid??? I don't...all I care about is whether or NOT they are satisfied with their current place in the world...OUTSIDE...if they are inside...then they pose a problem...and while the information in this tidbit might come in useful in this situation...how assinine are you gonna look laying out little white lines all around the house??? You'll more than likely be investigated for runnin a crack house or meth lab...regardless of what your original intentions are...not too mention that the amount of baby powder you will need to purchase will cost significantly more than a handful of effective baby powderless products commonly referred to as ant traps...what kinda OCD situation do you hafta embody to employ the baby powder protection plan??? Damn dipshidiots anyway...ants are industrious members of the animal kingdom...they are also capable of discovering new paths to the places they want to penetrate...kinda like humans in that respect...I prefer NOT to walk through knee deep dogshit with NO shoes on my feet...which is why when I am faced with a place full of canine land mine concoctions I choose a different path to get from point A to point B...same thing an ant would do when faced with a mountain of mudd butt material...lining the exterior of your house with baby bottom butter will do one thing...and one thing ONLY...delay the process of purchasing ANT TRAPS...because what surrounds the house class??? DIRT...that's right...don't be embarrassed by getting the answer right...that's what we are here for...and what does DIRT provide??? A potential place for ANTS to reside...and how do ants make use of this medium known as DIRT??? They dig elaborate tunneling systems that serve as their homes...which in laymen's terms means they are quite capable of crawling UNDER the baby powder protective procedure you employed...what else occurs in the wonderful world outside the walls of our homes??? Unwelcome weather patterns...such as rain...and what happens to baby powder when it gets wet??? That's right...it undergoes a chemical transformation that makes it more like paste than powder...or it washes away completely...which does what class??? That's right...it causes the OCD ant fanatic to reline the property with baby powder...an ongoing and continuous vicious cycle for securing the domicile from the introduction of ants...what happens when you deploy ANT TRAPS around the interior of the house??? That's right...they stay dry...in place...and perfectly effective in their performance to remove the unwanted from the interior of our living establishments...holy crap...when are people gonna start to wake up and smell the roses??? There are things that need to be researched and discovered...there are also things that do NOT warrant the expenditure of finances to figure out...such as ignorant ideas on the protective properties of baby powder as it applies to unassing ants from the house...good lord...I give Sasquatch hunters more credit than these craphole connoisseurs...at least they THINK they're doing something worthwhile...and at least it is at their own expense...NOT from the pockets of the tax payers!!!