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ANTS

Ants are a major problem to business and homeowners alike in Wisconsin. They can even be a problem indoors during winter! Ants can be very difficult to control, hear are some facts about ants:

Entry Points:
Ants can invade the home/office through the tiniest of cracks seeking sweet or greasy substances in your kitchen pantry, garbage cans, or even your kitchen cupboards.

How do they gather in the same spot so quickly? Ants leave scent trails which are invisible chemical trails known as pheromones for others to follow once they locate the food source.

Nest locations:
They can nest just about anywhere in and around your home; in wall voids, attics, stumps, under countertops, sometimes even under your foundation.

Colony size:
Colonies can number anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 and whole colonies can uproot and relocate quickly when they feel threatened.

Nature's way of protecting the colony:
Ants do not have too many natural enemies, in fact a colony can live a relatively long lifetime. Its been proven that worker ants may live seven years or more and the queen may live as long as 15 years!

Why do these ants keep coming back? Most do-it-yourself approaches only kill the ants you see, killing off the workers, but leaving the queen who can reproduce new workers to replace those lost. A truly effective program will penetrate and destroy their queen and the entire nest to prevent them from returning. Another problem which home/store bought remedies do not account for is the fact that different kinds of ant infestations require different kinds of treatments.

Most commonly found ants (click on image for more information)

Pharoah Ant carpenter ants Thief ant Pavement Ants

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Stinging Insect
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