What to do when spring brings out the animals

By KAREN YOUSO - Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
It's spring, and that means animals are up and out and moving about. They're also more likely to intersect our lives and make us critter crabby. Here's a crib sheet on controlling three animal nuisances that people are complaining about:

Ants
Those small brown ants scooting around the house usually love sweets or grease.

With the proper bait - sweet bait for the sweet ants, greasy bait for the grease lovers - you'll attract ants, and that's a good thing. They will feed on the poison-laced bait and take it back to the nest and feed it to the queen The queen dies, and so does the nest. (Read more)