Rain Brings Ants Back

Treating ants during monsoon season can be a challenge. Just when you think you have eradicated the outside of your home from the critters, it rains. Once that happens, here comes a whole new cluster of ants, they build new hills, and seem to appear out of nowhere.  The best way to treat ants is directly at their ant hill, but even treated properly the rain can sometimes mess up treatment. Here is a picture of some ants I treated today in Scottsdale. They are not too happy that I sprayed inside their “home!”