W used to have ant problems in the summer time and I'd sneak my sister's can of AquaNet and a dad's lighter and spend hours torching the ant hills around the house. It'd smell something awful but it was loads of fun. I also heard that if you sprayed a fly or some other kind of flying insect with extra strength hair spray it'd dry their wings so they couldn't move and they'd fall out of the air. I had some shithead little friends back in those days.