 When we ask homeowners to prepare their property and modify the habitat to create an environment that the tawny crazy ant cannot survive in, we ask them to move things that are on the ground, limbs, anything else that might be on the ground, move those away, especially away from the house where the tawny crazy ant might tend to get in. We also ask them to modify any type of drainage, because since the tawny crazy ant loves moisture, you know, if there's a lot of water that comes out from either air conditioners or other things around the property, it's going to be a damp area and especially have something rocks or something on that type of area. A lot of times you can't get a good treatment around the house due to the presence of so much foliage. We ask them to go out there and prune that foliage down, maybe even remove it until the tawny crazy ant populations are down. You have any potted plants out around the house, take those potted plants and put them on some type of a shelf or something, and when we talk about a shelf, not solid, but maybe some kind of expanded middle or open plastic, but there's no area that the tawny crazy ant can live under. Since the tawny crazy ant does tend to a lot of these insects that produce honeydew, we recommend yes to check to see if you have levels of those insects, prune your plants to cut down the foliage these insects are going to be on. If you can treat, you sometimes systemic insecticide to control those insects, you have a less food source for the tawnies. Once you start doing all that, remove all those, you start creating environment they just can't survive in and you'll reduce the numbers where when you do have to use a chemical creep, we have less ants to deal with. Therefore, you're perceived control of the chemicals better and you're much more satisfied.