The biggest difficulty we face with little black ant control is that they are so versatile. They will nest in almost anything. Whether this is your 1st or 30th time dealing with these tiny black ants, just keep trying
Despite their colossal strength, getting rid of black ants isn't all that difficult. The problem is that it's pretty much always temporary. Try to maintain cleanliness to keep them under control.
Start with a clean house. A little black ant will eat anything and everything. So do your dishes. The little bits of food that get left behind on dirty dishes, pots, pans, and silverware make a darn fine meal for a black ant. Wipe stoves, countertops, and tables diligently after every meal or snack. Crumbs on the floor are tasty too. Develop an obsessive compulsive habit of sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming. Also remember to take your trash out regularly and to rinse out bottles and cans before ants can find them.
Protect your food stuffs. Even if your kitchen is spotless, little black ants can and will invade your home in search of a meal. Don't give them the satisfaction of finding unsafeguarded food. Store everything in tight containers, preferably plastic containers with snappy lids, tin/aluminum canisters, or jars with rubber gaskets. This includes, but is not limited to, flours, sugars, pastas, cereals, chips, butter, and oils. Basically assume that if it's something you can eat that the ants would also like to eat it.
Gather a search party. Before you start to kill ants all willy-nilly, you should probably make sure you know where they're coming from. It's just nice to know if they are camping out inside your home or if they're sneaking in from the outside. By having this information, you will be able to target the colonies more effectively later. When you see ants inside, watch them for awhile and see what little nook or cranny they are retreating back into with their bounty. Spend some time outside looking around for ant colonies too.
Fill all the cracks. While you're looking for ants outside, if you see some, pay attention to how they are getting in so you can block that opening off with some caulk. Even if you didn't see any ants out there, you'll want to look for openings anyway. They got in there somehow, and once you get your current black ant infestation under control, you'll want to avoid future ones. So walk around out there with your caulking gun and fill any cracks in the foundation along with any openings that may have been created from bringing in electrical wires, cables, phone lines, plumbing, etc. Not only will this help with controlling black ants, it's an important step in controlling almost every other type of house pest as well
Find and remove any debris. While little black ants do sometimes live in your home, more often than not they have a nest outside somewhere and are just using your home as a food shelf. Outside the home, look for and remove any decent sized rocks, logs, pavers, stepping stones, stumps, mulch, and anything else that looks like something black ants might like to live under. It's also a good idea to trim back tree and shrub branches that are up against the house. Black ants will sometimes use these to get to your house.
Because black ants gather food and take it back to their nest, ant baits are probably the most effective, easy to find, and easy to use form of ant killer. Ant baits don't kill ants immediately, which allows them to take it back to the nest and infect the entire colony. Ant baits are generally applied or placed directly in the ants' scent trails.
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