Ant Control
Why do I have ants?
Ant Control
Why do I have ants?
It has everything to do with environment and your house is just another part of theirs
We have our homes built into what I call "green neighborhoods"
all our homes and neighborhoods are divided by small wood lots
which in turn are habitat for many creatures
In the case of carpenter ants
Ants are social insects that live in colonies or
nests usually located in the soil near the house foundation,
under concrete slabs, in crawlspaces, in structural wood, in the yard or garden, in trees and in other protected
places. Ants have three castes, namely queens, males and workers. Queens and males are the reproductives. Workers
are sterile wingless females. New ant colonies are started by a single fertilized queen that lays eggs and tends
her brood (larvae and pupae) that develop into worker ants. Tending of the brood is then taken over by the worker,
which may shift the brood from place to place as moisture and temperature fluctuate in the nest. When workers
forage for food for the queen and her young, they often may enter houses and become a nuisance by their presence
and contaminate food.
When an ant colony reaches a certain size it releases its expendable members into the environment as reproductives
or "winged ants" also referred to as swarming
when two of these reproductives find each other they mate and lose
their wings
and one will become a queen
she will crawl into a moist location and begin laying eggs and start the cycle all over
If you have winged ants in your home this could be a more serious problem
It is a sure sign of colonization and also those
"flying ants" could in fact be termite swarmers
Because a queen needs a certain amount of relative humidity in the material she
lays the eggs
an ant colony inside a structure is a certain sign of ongoing moisture issue such as leaking pipes,
damp crawl space, ice damming
saturated wood on the shady side of the house, improperly installed gutters or drip edge
, no drip edge, or outright leaks in the roof or flashing and wood below grade
Carpenter ants do not actually eat wood they remove the pulpy sections to expand their living space
mysterious piles of
sawdusts littered with little black
pellets are a sign of ants destroying your homes structure
Queenless satilite colonys do not need wet wood to make their nest
Another reason ants are in your home is because they are foraging for food
once ant worker locate a food source they
communicate to other workers and will regularly forage in that area
Foraging ants travel from colonies in
a straight line along a corner board or power line
they come across tree branches and power lines and the source can be difficult to determine
A thorough inspection
chemical application
yearly service agreements
Crawl space remediation and dehumidification
Tree trimming
Pesticide development has come a long way in recent years, We are very conscience of the chemicals we use
Therefore we prefer nonrepellant low dose material which carry a great deal of "transferance"
this extremly effective system allows for the least amount of chemical possible
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