Ant
An ant stands for diligence, for small things gathering into something large. Traditional reading took a marching line of ants as a good omen of a household growing, and ants carrying food as effort accumulating. Ants swarming into the house means small tasks are multiplying, while crushing or scattering them reflects the fear of undoing your own careful work. If the impatience was strong, look at that feeling first.
An ant hauls loads several times its own weight, and never hauls them for itself alone. Old dream manuals treated the ant as an emblem of diligence and never read it as ill alone. What the ants were doing decides the meaning.
Readings by Situation
A marching line of ants
A good omen of a household growing. Tradition read ants in formation as steady wealth. The longer the line, the better it reads.
Ants carrying food
A sign that effort is accumulating. Tradition read the carrying as gathering in. If you have prepared something for a long time, this reads well.
Ants swarming into the house
A sign that small tasks are multiplying. Tradition sometimes read insects coming in as wealth, but if it was more than you could handle, read it as a call to cut back.
Crushing or scattering ants
It is the fear of scattering with your own hand what you built. Ants stand for what cannot be piled up overnight, so this comes when you want to let go of something you have held a long time. Write down what you want to quit and you will see whether it is truly worth closing.
An ant dream is not a sign of pests in your home. A swarm coming in does not fix anything bad in place. Still, if you have a lot underway, look at that too.