I repotted them, dumped the ant colony in the trash outside in the snow. rinsed the roots and repotted them, they are much happier and the ants and ants food source has been removed.
I did read that you can dry out banana peels and then grind them into powder and sprinkle around plants to deter certain bugs. You can put on or near an ant hill and the workers will take to feed to the queen and she will burst
