To keep fire ants out of your house, keep an eye on nearby plants as soil is a potential haven for fire ants. Insect bait should be applied on sunny days around anthills, not on them, so that foraging worker ants will hopefully bring some back to the nest where it will kill queen ants living deep inside.
在居家防疫方面，若屋外有植栽，就要注意土壤中是否暗藏危機，領到防治「入侵紅火蟻」的專用餌劑時，應在天晴日子灑在蟻丘周圍而非蟻丘上，讓外出覓食的工蟻很快地將餌劑搬回蟻巢，以有效殺死藏匿在蟻窩深處的所有蟻后。