To rid ants from your home can take a little work and patience. First, read our on line article on how to Rid Ants From the Home. This explains most everything you'll ever have to do. Second, decide which of the products will be best for your situation. Without a doubt you'll have to use our three prong approach which means bait inside, perimeter spray on the outside and bait or insecticidal granules in the yard. Lastly, you'll need to keep up with these applications quarterly so you don't get reinfested.

To get rid of ants that are nesting in the ground is pretty easy. The fastest approach is to drench them with some Cypermethrin. This will kill them on contact and requires very little material to be effective. More details can be read about in our Fireant Control article. Fireant mound drenching is very effective and quick so that's the preferred method of treatment for that species. But any species of ant can be treated the same way so I'm sure it will work for your problem too. If you take care of all the ones you see now chances are high they won't be nearly as active for the rest of this year. Treat early next season and you'll find controlling them to be a lot easier in the long run.

Getting rid of ants can take a little time. As our article on how to Rid Ants from your home explains, the ants you're seeing represent a small amount of the population. Spraying them won't kill the colony. They'll just send out new ones and in day or so, you'll see the new ants marching around. To get rid of ants for good, you'll need to use the three prong approach we've explained and detailed. The Optigard has proven to be highly effective and for the outside, we suggest you use since it's been working on vitually every species of ant.