Ant Control

Ants are the number one pest problem in the country and almost all the world. Ant control can be a challenging task, but there are some things you should know about how ants’ behavior can lead to big headaches for you and your home:

• Home and Business Ant Entry: Ants can enter through even the tiniest cracks in your home or business, seeking water and sweet or greasy food substances in the kitchen pantry or storeroom areas.

• Ant Scent trails: Ants leave an invisible chemical trail which contains pheromones for others ants to follow once they locate the food source.

• Ant Nest locations: Ants can nest about anywhere in and around your house or business; in lawns, walls, stumps, even under foundations. This is why it is so difficult to get rid of Ants.

• Ant Colony size: Can number up to 300,000 to 500,000 and whole ant colonies can uproot and relocate quickly when their ant colony is threatened.

• Ant Colony Lifetime: An ant colony can live a relatively long lifetime. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen ant may live as long as 15 years.
• Ant Do-it-yourself ineffectiveness: Most do-it-yourself ant control approaches only kill the ants you see. Some truly effective treatments can penetrate and destroy ant nests to help prevent these pests from returning. Also, ant home remedies don’t account for the fact that different kinds of ant infestations require different treatments.