Every year, once warm weather arrives, we fight a battle to keep our home ant-free without nasty chemicals. Fortunately, I've recently found some DIY ant bait recipes that have worked like a charm!

Instead of spraying the building foundation and the landscape with pesticide, the IPM strategy is to prevent ant nesting around the foundation and to use baits to target the colony. It helps to reduce ...

During the summer months, it's not uncommon for ants to invade homes in search of food. However, there's a simple and effective solution to prevent these pests from becoming an infestation. While many ...

Ants can become unwelcome guests in our homes for various reasons, such as searching for food or water, or to find a suitable nesting place. The warmer months of late spring and summer are prime time ...

A: The best way to control ants when they get in your home is with baits. Different species have different food preferences. Some species will take a wide variety of baits, while others are more fussy ...

Ants make for small but unwelcome houseguests, trailing into kitchens and bathrooms in search of food and moisture during spring and summer. There are hundreds of species, and most are completely ...

Fire ants’ fondness of fall arouses a flurry of activity. And that renewed activity provides an opportunity to control this pesky insect. The thing that triggers the increase in fall fire ant activity ...

The information in the e-mail sounds too good to be true: Pouring club soda (carbonated water) onto a fire ant mound will kill the ferocious little ankle-biters. That's the problem: It isn't true.