ants are not an issue at our place , the local critters likely eat them as snacks is my guess ....
kinda like roaches , none of them live in the way out there country either ....
it's a tough environment for sure ,rainfall is sketchy for years sometimes ....
and if anything , them biblical grasshoopers like flocks of locusts are pretty bad at times ....
they even go up in the pecan trees and eat the leaves and the pecans as well ....
and rattlers along with a few other things native to the area are long gone ....
humans killed all em off long ago and the hogs finished off whatever was smart enough to avoid the 2 legged snake killers ,,,,,just saying