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Sounds good.
But living in the woods in rural Mississippi is a real challenge.
At least the fire ants stayed with their nest and didn't bother you unless you bothered them.
They were easy to control.

But these little crazy ants go everywhere.
They don't seem to sting or bite, but they get into everything.
The humidity around here seems to feed them, and after studying them on the internet, they don't seem to have any natural enemies that will eat them.
They drive everything else out.
You can't leave food out for the cats and dogs, or the chickens, because in no time, these crazy ants get into it and the animals won't touch it.
Regular ground or yard ant power seems to help. but one heavy rain and you have to spread the poison again.

I should have written “colonies” for “Fipronil solved the problem and killed off the entire colony.”

There were many (many) colonies of these ants all around: in the trees, along the power line that goes to the house, in the house, etc...

I tried some of the other remedies mentioned by others in this post. These ants are not attracted to baits or any natural remedies. Waste of time.

I finally came across Fipronil (via Termidor) and sprayed it according to directions. The ants walk through the Fipronil, it gets on them, and they carry it back to their colony where it passes ant-to-ant and soon (not immediately) kills them all off.

Within 3 days of spraying Fipronil the ants were significantly diminished in number. Within 5 days there were stragglers here and htere. Within 7 days they were gone.

A $60 bottle of Termidor has a shelf life of 5 years (which really means 10 years) and I’ll probably use it up within 6-7 years spraying 2x a year. The pest control company charged $100 to lay out worthless baits on their first and only visit. Termidor is my pest control company now.