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Ant Control Facts and Tips
Bristol Ant Control: Because ants live communally in colonies, we need to eliminate the nest (queen, workers, eggs) and not just the worker ants. Protein based and carbohydrate foods will attract ants.
Each new ant invasion provides a chemical pheromone trail for the other ants to follow, so getting rid of ants can be as simple as having a thorough spring clean. Our homes also provide the perfect, heated home for ants.
Ants In Your House?
Ants Penetrate our homes, simply by coming in gaps around windows and doors, but occasionally the colony penetrates the internal building structure via other routes, and once you find ants in the house it's often more difficult to treat them, making ant control technically more demanding and financially unappealing.
Common Routes That Ants Use To Invade Your Home:
> Air Bricks and Weep Holes - The Most Common Entry Point.
> Window and Door Frames - Holes in damaged or rotten wooden frames.
> Holes In walls - Holes created by old or existing pipework and cables.
> House Plants and Planters - Especially those grown and stored in the UK.
> Utility Points - Through conduit containing water and electric etc.
> Damaged Mortar - Through gaps in faulty, damaged or soft mortar.
Ants In Your Kitchen
Ants represent a particular risk by contaminating food with pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria that can cause significant illness. Food poisoning is a particular risk to those in high risk groups such as the old, very young, pregnant women and those convalescing from illness or surgery to name but a few.
Effective ant control is as simple as cleaning up spilt foods or food residues and no poison needs to be used, but this level of cleanliness is often a struggle for some people to consistently achieve and thus remain ant free. With this in mind, chemical control over the longer term may be the only way of effectively treating ants in these conditions.
What Attracts Ants?
Ants are attracted by the organic products available to them, including food residues left on surfaces or in packaging that has not been secured effectively. Most common ant treatments used in Bristol are stomach poisons designed to kill ants feeding on well formulated bait or food substitute. Natural ant killers are available in organic formulations, so you can kill ants and remain environmentally sensitive.
The Most Common Ant Attractants:
> Bins and Recycling Receptacles - The most common areas of activity.
> Under Work Unit Plinths - Food residues quickly build between the plinths and floor.
> Under Large Appliances - Heavy food residues can go unnoticed here.
> Between counter tops and the wall - Large wet food deposits and fly activity is common here.
> Between Skirting Boards and the Floor - A very common entry point.
> Counter Tops - Food Residues left uncleaned quickly attract Ants.
What Are Flying Ants?
These are simply males and queens that disembark to mate, on warm, humid evenings, when conditions are absolutely right, which is why we see so many flying at the same time. Flying ant control, especially indoors, requires a robust approach to establish rapid elimination.
The Ant belongs to a group of over 130000 insects species that include the orders of Wasps and Bees, so in common with these they are both social in behavior - often living in well organized socially structured colonies and equipped with the ability to deliver a sting or spray formic acid.
Do Ants In Bristol Bite, And Are They Dangerous?
None of the ant species found traditionally in Bristol or the UK are dangerous, but newer tropical species with a greater capacity to sting like the white Ghost ant or Rogers ant, are surviving traditional ant control tactics, establishing themselves in ever greater numbers or so it would seem, year on year.
Depending on the ant species, many UK ants including the common red ant can sting. Any time venom is injected into our skin we have the chance that our body will have a significant reaction to the toxin so a severe reaction cannot be ruled out. If you get stung by ants and suspect you might be suffering a severe reaction click here for further advice.
What Should I Do If I'm Bitten or Stung By Ants?
Ant Sting - First Aid Advice!
What Purpose Do Ants Serve?
They are incredible scavengers, cleaners and also a natural force in garden and household pest control, consuming a wide variety of insects.
What About Ants In Bristol?
In Bristol, Ant Control is considered by many to be a summer pest control activity but our unquenchable thirst for imported foods and goods has helped tropical ants to establish themselves. Across the UK, tropical species like Pharaoh Ants are finding our homes and warm commercial environments like hospitals, and restaurant kitchens a particularly nice place to remain active all year round.
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Bristol Ant Control Advice: Getting rid of Ants and other pests like Rats, Cluster Flies and Silverfish is not as simple as many pesticide manufacturers will lead you to believe. The chemicals or poisons on offer in supermarkets and shops often have a fraction of the effect that is achieved through professional products and this means you are likely to get through many cans of treatment without actually achieving full control. As the only Bristol Pest Control exterminator offering a dedicated insect control service, we are able to deliver solutions that are guaranteed to work.
Environmental health services, are all about understanding the pests you are trying to eliminate or prevent so you can make the environment less conducive to them. The Wasp for example creates a wasp nest early in the year so if you wanted to control wasps in Bristol you would probably guess that checking for a new wasp nest in your loft in April and May would allow you to remove a wasp nest safely before it became too large. By understanding your pest, you are able to plan control in advance, before infestation occurs and the cost of elimination becomes high.
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