About Ants

Ants are common insects, more than 12,000 species of ants all over the world. Although ants are frustrating when they get into your home, ants do help the environment.

Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus, or insects. Their colonies are located in wet environments near a food source. These colonies can grow to monumental size, sometimes covering entire habitats, such as an entire garden or your whole back yard.

Prevention

Eliminate standing water. Pests, such as ants, mosquitoes and termites, are attracted to moisture.

Keep tree branches and other plants cut back from the house. Sometimes pests use these branches to get into your home.

Make sure that there are no cracks or little openings around the bottom of your house. Sometimes pests use these to get into your home.