Show them you mean business.
While it’s tempting to attack ants with a spray can, all of the experts I spoke with said that doing so is basically pointless. This is because ants live in large colonies, and “you can’t kill a colony of ants unless you kill the queen,” says Gangloff-Kaufmann. And unfortunately, “some species have multiple queens in the same colony.” Instead of trying to kill hundreds of ants one by one, baits are the way to go. These use foodlike scents to trick ants into carrying poison back to the nest.
In order to work, baits have to be very low toxicity, adds Alex Wild, curator of entomology for the University of Texas at Austin’s biodiversity collections. “You don’t want a very powerful poison because what happens is an ant encounters it and dies rather than going back to the colony,” he explains. “You need a weak poison that ants pick up, ingest, and carry back to their colony and then pass it around so it gets to the queen.
If a certain brand of bait isn’t working, it’s possible that your ants don’t have a sweet tooth and are craving oils or protein instead of sugar. As Gangloff-Kaufmann explains, “Ant preferences change throughout the year — so even professionals who do pest control have to do trial and error to figure out what the ants are taking.
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