Ant infestations are not a pest problem that you want to have.
Ants will quickly spread around your home and yard and cause some problems for you.
If you want to get rid of these, there are things that you should be doing to get rid of them inside and outside the home.
In the inside of your home, you need to start with cleaning up the place.
Make sure the floors and counters are completely cleaned up each day.
Sticky residue and food particles keep ants in your home.
Be sure all your food inside is sealed up.
Ants can get into most packaging as the holes are big enough for them to get into.
Seal those up completely in containers if need be.
Take your trash out each night.
Ants might be getting into your trash and finding a food source there.
Use ant baits around the house.
The advantage of baits is that they will be picked up and shared with other ants in the colony.
It's the best way of killing the other ants without having to find them yourself.
Go outside and do some work as well.
Look for ant hills.
It's likely that there are some nearby if you have had ant problems in the house.
The first step you are going to take is to flood the ant hills.
Get your hose and turn it on leaving it running on the ant hill.
The moisture will soak into the tunnels and flush many of them out.
This will kill some of them and force the colony to move.
Use baits around the ant hills so that you can kill the colony.
Be careful if you have children or pets as they might want to eat the bait.
If you can't get the problem solved on your own, you can always call a pest control company.
These techniques are easy enough to do on your own that you should try them first.