It often starts with a thin line.
A few small ants trail along a kitchen counter. Maybe they appear near a window frame. Sometimes they emerge from an outlet plate or slip through a baseboard seam. The instinctive reaction is quick and familiar: wipe them away, spray the surface, move on.
But what most Indiana residents don’t understand about ant colonies inside walls is that the ants you see are rarely the colony itself. They are scouts. Workers. Foragers. The visible edge of something much larger and far more organized happening out of sight…