Leave them there until dusk and you will be able to follow the stragglers back to their nest(s) and mark them , do the same tomorrow at the other side of the lawn and the same for the next few days moving all over the area marking the nests every day .
You will know where all the nests are in a week or so , then its time for a NUKE or 10 , use the Bayer Ant and Wasp powder as much as it takes , its the best , just be systematic and once done you wont see ants in those numbers again and if they do start to explode again just repeat as necessary but it wont be as bad every time .
Be aware that some of the nests will be outside your fences , ants don't do boundries
Brian.
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Originally Posted by BilliGoatsGruff
I put some snack bars around the yard an hour ago and this is the result. On one lid there is honey, the other has peanut butter. It makes sense that they would go for the honey because they are always after the honeydew from the scale in the gum trees around our house.
I was thinking maybe bait would be useful, but with such a big area it would be hard to target them all.
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