Key Takeaways Fire ant colonies build mounds on the soil’s surface, a sign of their network of underground tunnels.Fire ants ...

Key Points 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 ...

Ants are silently destroying your lawn—here’s how to stop them.

July 2, 2006 — -- Last week, Janet Wallace Roedl Shiansky, a 68-year-old South Carolina woman, went into anaphylactic shock and died after being attacked by ants while she was gardening. The ants ...

Sprinkle grits around the mound. Readers say: The ants will eat them, the grit will expand, and the ant will die. Chance this works: 1 in a very big number. Why: Like you, an ant won’t eat food that ...

Before you hire an exterminator, try this ant bait that will actually get rid of your ant problem for good.

Q: My lawn care guy is recommending that I have my lawn treated for ants and chinch bugs. What even are chinch bugs? Do I have to do this? I hate to spray insecticide all over the lawn. I have a ...