What kind of damage are the ants causing for you? They are everywhere in my garden, but I haven't noticed damage from them.

I have thousands of ants in my garden but until they start farming aphids we have no problem with one another.

What kind of ants are these?

I use ant traps and powder as they do farm aphids .
ladybugs do wonders but ants help nothing so kill them any way you can.

In my yard it would be easier to control the aphids. Ants are tenacious and numerous.

Some reason I think ants like peppers. I had them all over my plant casuing little holes in leaves. I sprayed insecticide and they're gone now.

Ants do love pepper i have cut some open and fond them in the pepper not finding any hole on the pod. at the end of the sesson i pulled the plants and found they bored in the roots ,had there nest under the roots ,also had lots of aphis because they do not make them all slaves,but the ants fram them on your plants. kill them
dan

LET IT BURN