Pavement Ant Pest Control
Extermination and Fumigation Services
The Pavement Ant
Pavement Ant’s size ranges from 2 to 4 mm and color varies from Brown to Black.
Pavement ants feed on a variety of materials, including live and dead insects, honeydew from aphids, meats, grease, etc. They often enter houses looking for food. They may become numerous in a short period of time in a kitchen or outside on a patio.
Outside they are usually found under stones, concrete slabs, and at the edge of pavements. Inside of a house they can be found anywhere in the structure.
New ant colonies are started by a single queen that lays the eggs and tends the brood that develops into worker ants. Tending of the brood is then taken over by the workers, which 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 enter houses and become a nuisance.
They feed on animal food, grease, seeds, and almost anything considered edible by humans.
Pavement Ant attending to a Pupae.
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Pavement Ants are taking care of their pupae – Photographed in Brampton – May 2010.
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Pavement Ant having a go at Protein based Bait.
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Pavement Ants devoured the Bait.
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Pavement Ants loving Bait in Kitchen.
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Pavement Ant having a go at Protein based Bait.
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Frequently asked Questions:
In most of the situations where the nest location is undetermined, it is better to use bait. The bait will be applied according to the current ant traffic patterns. These worker ants will not feed themselves on the bait, but they will take the bait to other classes of ants that would never leave the nest. That’s how the insecticide would be able to reach all members of the ant colony. That is how the problem is eradicated at it’s root level.
Pavement Ants Pest Control and Extermination:
We prefer to utilize a commercially registered insecticide Bait application to deliver a successful Pavement Ants Pest Control and extermination.
Here are the key points:
- Because broadcast application of Control Agents is avoided in Bait application, it results in less pollution and general hazard for people and pets. Hence, there is a lot less intrusion to the flow of life.
- Pavement Ants would be attracted to the bait and having consumed it, they would be impacted by it. The Pavement Ants are least likely to be going into new areas to widen the area of the infestation.
- Not only that the Pavement Ants would be exterminated having consumed the bait but they would also prove to be a source of secondary poisoning for other Pavement Ants.
- This technique is cleaner in it’s application and safer for people and pets.
- Client is not required to prepare the property in any way for the application process.
- Client is not required to leave the property during nor after the application.
The Expected Results of Pavement Ants Extermination and Outcome of the Treatment:
In about 3-5 weeks, all Pavement Ants would have had the time and opportunity to feed on the bait. The bulk of Bait’s content is palatable food for Pavement Ants but it also contains a small but lethal amount of active agent. It is this substance that eliminates Pavement Ants.
Gradually all Pavement Ants would become affected in all of their nesting areas. In about 3-5 weeks all Pavement Ants would have expired. Most of the Pavement Ants would have died behind the scene in their hidden nesting spaces. In cases of very high infestations, there may be dead Pavement Ants found near the foraging areas.
When it comes to cleaning away the debris and remnants of Pavement Ants, standard care should be taken. Try to avoid inhaling the dust and debris. Spray anti-bacterial cleaning agent to suppress the particles from becoming air borne. Then wipe them off with a disposable cleaning cloth. Use of cleaning gloves is recommended.
Our exterminators will inspect the structure for points of vulnerabilities that may facilitate future infestations or conditions that may be helping Pavement Ants to flourish. It will be up to the owner to act on the recommendations.
At Quest Pest Management Inc., we have the highest success rate of complete Pavement Ants Pest Control and extermination – only with the initial treatment.
Prior to carrying out treatment for Pavement Ants, we will do an inspection or survey of the property to determine the extent and scope of the infestation. In doing so, we will also obtain information from people present on site.
