The bottle design can make it challenging to accurately get the powder into smaller spaces, but only a small amount needs to be applied successfully to help it be effective. While having ants in your garden isn’t too much of an issue at first, they can eventually invade your house – and they don’t tend to travel in groups of just one or two! Buying a product which is versatile can save you money in the long run, in case you have problems with more than one type of insect. Whereas some other products require decanting and diluting, Ant Gone only requires you to open the bottle and pour it straight over the ant nest. You can also use it on paths and patios when you can’t get to the nests. Although the colonies are small, there can be several queens in each colony that are capable of laying eggs so numbers can grow fast.

Ant bait offers slow but effective pest control. Bait stations are filled with poisonous ant bait (usually disguised amongst high-sugar substances).

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The carpenter ant is much larger other ants like the common garden species. They can be around 0.5 cm long. If threatened, they can bite.

Carpenter ants are most often found in forests, on logs and fallen trees. They tend to build their nests in these pieces of wood, excavating tunnels to live in. Many ant killers can be used both indoors and outdoors. However, this depends on the ingredients they contain.

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These work the same was as baited stations, but you’ll have more flexibility in terms of where to place the poison. In my case, I wasn’t sure where the nest was; however, there were a few places where the ant activity was more prolific, so I just poured a little pile of the granules in each of these places. Finding the nest, and treating it directly, is the most effective way to cause problems caused by carpenter ants. Fire ants are quite common to find on garden lawns. They nest in small colonies (around 100 – 300 ants) in the soil. I used the Home Defence Ant Stop! Bait Station in my kitchen, positioning two bait stations at two different entry/exit points that I’d seen ants use.