Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to Get Ants

This article is a bit perplexing to me. After all, who wants to attract ants, right? They ruin picnics, and there’s just always so many. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, though, catching and attracting bugs is kind of the point. So in this short guide we’re going to go over how to get ants in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

How to Get Ants in Animal Crossing New Horizons

What’s great about Animal Crossing New Horizons is that the way to get ants in-game really isn’t all that different than how you attract them in real life.

Ants love our food; they have a whole colony to feed. They aren’t picky though and will eat pretty much anything we leave out whether it’s still good or not if they can get their grubby mandibles on them.

Say for example, you have a delicious Turnip (or fruit) that you leave out. If you leave that Turnip sitting around for a while it will eventually rot, and after it rots Ants will eventually show up.

Once the Ants show up you can catch them and add them to your gross collection of gross bugs. Sorry, New Horizons fans I know you love catching bugs, but it’s just not my thing, okay?

That’s all you need to know for how to get ants in Animal Crossing New Horizons. If you’re interested in less gross AC pastimes, you can check out our New Horizons wiki guide which is filled with other tips and tricks that don’t involve attract creepy crawly ants to your island such as spending a beautiful and relaxing evening fishing.

Or if you’re just wondering what we think of the latest game in the long-running Nintendo franchise, you can check out our fully-scored review from our resident Animal Crossing expert, Rebecca, who has plenty to say about the latest and potentially greatest!