Managing ants in your garden is no picnic. Here's what you can do to solve your ant problem—and why sometimes the best thing ...

When you notice an ant infestation in your home, you may run to grab a spray designed to eliminate them, but is this really ...

Ants are tiny so that it’s nearly impossible to keep them out of your house, says Bertone. But these tips can help: · Remove ...

The first and biggest source of attraction for ants is any food source, predominantly scraps that are easily accessible.

Fix leaky pipes and faucets. Clean pet food bowls and avoid leaving pet food out. Baits: Ant baits containing slow-acting poisons like boric acid are highly effective and foraging ants bring the ...

Ant hills can be eliminated from the yard using natural and chemical solutions. Natural solutions include physical disturbance, contact killers, and bait. Chemical solutions include insecticide ...

Apply pesticides: Ant baits can help most ant problems. Sugar bait with a toxicant, such as boric acid, typically works well, as many of the ant species that enter homes are sweet-loving ants.

It takes some time for this to happen, so baits are a relatively slow way to control fire ants. However, they are very effective because they kill the ant colonies you see and those you don’t see.

I have now read that some companies use peanut butter to entice the ants. Any future ant bait will be stored in hard plastic or, better yet, metal. — G.W., Staten Island, N.Y.

“Ants pick up the bait and return it to the nest, so they do most of the work for you.” He said the fire ant bait concentration is very low compared to residential insecticides.

But I learned the hard way that mice like ant bait, or at least the name brand I kept — the little white squares that have an entry for ants to take the bait and leave back to their colony.