I like your suggestion. I don't see why there are so many different articles on ants. As you have noted, the same info is repeated. It could be that other users come here to search for specific information about a certain ant and won't be satisfied until the article is properly titles for their search. I don't know.
To me there are two kinds of ants: those that forage for sugar and those that forage for protein. Any ants that seem to be doing no harm to other plants and are not invading your home should be left alone.
As I said, ants in your home are either searching for sugar or protein. You can prepare baits to attract the sugar ants pretty easily. Mix sugar and molasses (equal proportions) to bait them in but put some baking yeast into the mix to eradicate them. The specific recipe I used was 1/2 cup of the sugar and molasses to 1 tsp of baking yeast. It makes a gooey mess that I smeared onto pieces of cardboard and put into the ants trails. I was able to track the trail through the wall and outside. It took the ants a few days to find the goo but once they did, they were all OVER it
. They cleaned that cardboard slicker than a whistle, so I had to reload it. It finally took about 3 weeks before all the ants were gone. My theory as to why that works is the yeast creates a culture inside the ant mound that affects their food supply. No food - no ants. For protein eating ants in the house, no amount of sugar will attract them. Protein ants avoid sugar like the plague that it seems to be. For them you need to find the mound outdoors and drench it with a weak sugar solution. 2 ounces of molasses in a gallon of water will do it. If you can find a bait to attract the protein ants, you can poison that bait with boric acid. That will definitely kill the ants. You cannot use boric acid in the garden, though, so only indoors. Fire ants are a protein eating ant so sugar drench seems to get rid of them.
For outdoor ants like cut ants, I would treat them with both yeast and sugar and see what happens. Dissolve the yeast into the sugar water and drench.
For carpenter ants you are screwed unless you can keep the wood from getting moist. Carpenter ants seem to be able to make their own moisture so it usually works best to replace the wood they are eating.
I don't know if this helps consolidate the ant issue, but it is an attempt.
