How To Get Rid Of Ants

How To Get Rid Of Ants

Now, why would I want to get rid of this fascinating insect? Well, they are super annoying when they get into your food. Their numbers can be overwhelming at times, and a lot of ants do have a painful bite. So what can we do? In today’s blog, I will look at the different type of ants and why they are so hard to eradicate.

Before I dive deeper into the topic, lets, look at some fun facts from one of my favourite pests.

Interesting Facts About Ants

• The Bullet Ant in the Amazon jungle has one of the most potent stings in the world. Some say it feels like being shot.
• The ant is one of the world’s strongest creatures for its size, and some species can lift 50 times there own body weight.
• Ants do not sleep much studies have shown that workers may take anywhere from eight minutes of rest every 12 hours, to over 250 one-minute naps in one day; often at irregular intervals.
• The most dangerous ants in the Brisbane area is the Imported Red Fire Ant. The Yellow Crazy Ant is another invasive species that can hurt you if they are disturbed.
• Ants can be found on every continent on the planet except ironically Antarctica.
• Flying male ants have only one purpose of mating with the queen or queens.
• Ants have no ears and sometimes no eyes and use their antenna, scent and vibration for navigation.

How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your House

To get rid of any pest, you have to ask yourself three questions. Question No. 1. What’s attracting the ants into my house? Classic example: Second week of the school holidays and ants everywhere. I found an uneaten sandwich in a child’s schoolbag—question No. 2. Where are the ants coming from? Trees against the house leaves in guttering? and item 3. What type of ants are they? This last step is essential, and it’s not uncommon for even pest controllers to get wrong when treating.

Sugar Feeding Ants

Sugar Feeding Ants are usually found on your kitchen bench or pantry searching for anything sweet. Commonly honey jam or sugar. These ants in the wild predominately feed on the nectar of flowers and fruits. For these ants, I use a targeted Ant Gel bait, which kills the queens and eliminates the colony. As a temporary solution, you can clean benches with a mint-scented detergent which confuses the signals for pheromone trails used to find food—store sweet products in glass containers and wipe the jars if sticky. Remember, ants are tiny; what might seem a little food to you is a feast to them. You’d be amazed at how much sugar is in almost every food.

Protein Feeding Ants

Protein Feeding Ants. These ants predominately feed on protein such as other insects, fats, peanut paste, and even harvested fungi. These also can be treated with gels, but if intensity levels are high, it is best to reduce their population before using gels. It would help if you used the Gel bait that’s appropriate to their diet. The best way to reduce large populations is to use a non-repellent chemical. It is possible to reduce the numbers of an ant colony with repellent type chemicals. However, they can retreat to their nest until conditions are favourable again (like after rain) and reemerge.

It seems utterly pointless to me to try to get rid of ants entirely if they are not causing any problems such as getting into pet food or biting or damaging the lawn. Protein ants usually bite, and if they’re a problem for your family, you should treat your whole yard. Are you getting bitten by ants while hanging the washing? Are your children getting bitten while waiting for their turn on a trampoline? There are specific baits (not sold in the shops) that eliminate the nest of these ants and chemicals that eliminate species such as funnel ants, which can destroy your healthy lawn.

Fats And Oil Feeding Ants

Fats And Oil Feeding Ants will eat almost anything. These ants prefer to eat grease, fats and meats, which can be a bit confusing because some of them also eat some protein. Even some sugar feeding ants eat protein too, so it’s not as easy as using ant old supermarket gel or some strong poison. But don’t worry at Logan Pest Control I have several methods and simple tests to identify any ants I cannot recall and a team of experts to call on too. So ants are treated the correct way with the proper chemical.

By the way, the Imported Fire ants we have in Brisbane are Fat, and Oil Ants require the use of both bait and a non-repellent chemical. However, there is a correct method so that queens do not escape. So don’t try to do this yourself. Call the Imported Red Fire Ant Eradication Team If you can’t wait for the program to eradicate them for you, you can call Logan Pest Control by clicking the Book Now tab as I am certified to treat Fire Ants.

Final Notes

At Logan Pest Control, I pride myself on my success in treating ants. All my full house treatments come with a three-month call back on ants coming into your house. I can also get rid of all biting ants, Fire Ants, Meat Ants, Funnel Ants, Singapore Ants, Metallic Green Ants and even the standard Black House Ants that cause chaos around the home.

One of the biggest reasons permethrin based self-treatments fail is because the amount of chemical is too low and not directed at nests, where the queen or queens maintains their colony. My prices start at $100 depending on the size of your yard and density of ants. Whilst some products from the supermarket shelf do work; you need to know a bit more about the products to apply them correctly.

How do you get rid of ants simply Call 0420473890 and I’ll sort them out for you.